Territoriality, transvestite prostitution and artivism in the voice of Linn da Quebrada

The objective of this study is to reflect on the expressions of transvestite subjectivity refracted by artistic creation, taking as reference the work of the artist Linn da Quebrada to articulate transvestitability, territoriality and sex work. The corpus of analysis consists of musical narratives e...

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Autores: Boffi, Letícia Carolina, Santos, Manoel Antônio dos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Gênero e Diversidade
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/58764
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/cadgendiv/article/view/58764
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Travestism
Transexuality
Territoriality
Prostitution
Gender identity
Travestilidade
Transexualidade
Territorialidade
Prostituição
Identidade de gênero
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Sumario:The objective of this study is to reflect on the expressions of transvestite subjectivity refracted by artistic creation, taking as reference the work of the artist Linn da Quebrada to articulate transvestitability, territoriality and sex work. The corpus of analysis consists of musical narratives extracted from the discography of the composer, who explores the reverberations of transvestite subjectivity in the confrontation with work on the streets and sidewalks in search of survival. These experiences are metaphorized in the composer’s musical production in dry and cutting verses, sculpted with a razor. In sharp poetry, sex work is subjectivized not only as a means of subsistence, but resistance, albeit an (re)existence circumscribed by marginal territoriality. There is certainly suffering, but also joy in exercising the freedom to transit through the alleys of genres. In the musical composition of Linn da Quebrada, art is taken to problematize the practices and knowledge that emanate from trans and transvestite bodies, by describing their social experiences through the vertex of their identities in non-conformity with gender norms, with the compass of artivism that blurs the boundaries between art and life.