“Bixa, preta, trans e periférica”: Linn da Quebrada e as performatividades de gênero dissidentes com as mídias digitais

Abstract

This research analyzed the performative construction of the São Paulo/SP artist, Linn da Quebrada, from its insertion in the digital media, between 2016 and 2018. In order to do so, I performed a digital ethnography through perambulation, seeking to understand the uses it makes of the platforms of digital media, especially YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, for projection as an artist, as well as for self-construction in dialogic relationship with platforms and their audiences. The focus is on the digital media, considering that they are part of a context of digital society, and in which they act from a logic of mass self-communication, in terms of which any person becomes consumer and content producer with the internet. At the same time, the platforms manage modes of identification, which is why I use them to analyze how Linn uses them. The analysis was made from the intersection of different categories that constitute processes of identification in the current society, such as gender, sexuality and generation, and that are present in the narratives produced by the performativity of the artist. I draw on Judith Butler's concepts of precariousness and performativity to understand Linn's relationship between the paradox of visibility and recognition as an artist who achieves certain visibility from performative engagements promoted with digital media in relation to hegemonic media. The research examines these apparent paradoxes and reflects on how the artist emerges from the problematization of issues involving gender, sexuality, body, travesti desire, travesti (in) visibility, and narratives aimed at creating conditions of non-precarious existence of a bixa body, travesti, black and periphery. In addition, I have shown that the construction of its performativity with digital media points to changes in the mode of musical production and relations between artists and audiences in a digital society.