An analysis of conservative discourses on “gender ideology” from queer studies and decolonial black feminism

Abstract

The intensification of conflicts involving sexual and reproductive rights has been treated by different conservative segments of Brazilian society as an attack on the colonial traditions hierarchically consolidated in the West from discourses found in theoretical perspectives oriented by both scholastic thought, as well as evolutionary psychology, spread by figures who could only approach through the direct influence of Olavo de Carvalho, as well as his students and pupils, like Ana Caroline Campagnolo. It is through the recognition of this clash encompassing antagonistic perspectives on gender and sexuality that this article proposes a genealogical analysis on the use of the notion “gender ideology”, taking the studies queer and black feminism decolonial as a starting point, as opposed to conservative speeches. This text is divided into three parts: in the first, will be presented their background and the consequent conservative events used in legitimizing their speeches; in the second, an analysis will be carried out on the main theoretical references mobilized by authors who adopt a reactive posture in relation to studies on gender and sexuality in Brazil; and finally, in the final part, we will show how the belief in the existence of a human and sexual nature universally differentiated between men and women does not hold, when we take as reference diverse current research oriented by queer studies and black feminism decolonial.