Abstract

SILVA, IVONE MARIA MENDES  and  TRUYLIO, VANDRIANE CAROLINE. “Desiring and desirable, why not?”: Sexuality, gender and disability in cinema and beyond. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2024, vol.24, e24490.  Epub Aug 23, 2024. ISSN 2175-1390.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-1390.v24e24490.

This article problematizes the normative discourses widespread in our society, markedly cis- heteropatriarchal and ableist, about “disabled” female bodies, reflecting on the forms of oppression and exclusion that such discourses help to (re)produce. To this end, it includes contributions from Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, among others, based on which the Japanese film 37 Seconds (2020), whose protagonist is a woman with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair, is analyzed. Testimonies about the film and the themes of sexuality and gender produced by women with disabilities living in Brazil are also analyzed. It is concluded that exposing, problematizing and combating the social place of invisibility assigned to these women in contemporary society, in different sociocultural contexts, is an urgent task. The fruits of this work can help them face the challenge of forging for themselves an existence in which the exercise of social and sexual autonomy is enhanced by the daring to resist.

Keywords : Cinema; Gender relations; Corporalities; Sexuality; Deficiency.

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