The Transvestites at school: between us and strategies of resistance

Abstract

This article claims to claims to undesrstand the experiences of transvestites at the school context,in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazill. We will analyse how was the reception of travestites at schcool, considering the aspects that approved and disapproved their stay, presence and permanence there. In that way this article participated on the queers studies; post-colonial studies and feminism and post-struturalism theories,witth Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are fundamentals, Our interlocutors were transvestites, of legal age and residents in Cabo. During the research, they were held four workshops with varying number of participantes. From this instrument, we see many reports both as acceptance of violence at school. The share name and the bathroom appeared invariably impede while staying in the school context.