Weaving narratives on transsexuality in the soap opera “A força do querer” and in the channel “Para Tudo de Lorelay Fox”

Abstract

Danilo, creator of Lorelay Fox - drag queen, youtuber and LGBTIQ artivist - becomes a listener to a receptor of the soap opera “A força do querer”, which builds her narrative from the transsexuality of the character named Ivana/Ivan. After listening, Lorelay presents in her YouTube channel the video called “Minha história sobre a novela ‘A força do querer’” and this content leads to the narratives of the youths, her interlocutors. This article proposes to reflect on this texture of narratives, which focuses on the transsexuality of Ivana/Ivan. It aims to analyze how this character was produced in the soap opera, from the gender relations imbricated in the transsexual experience, and investigate the mediations present in the narratives in this communicative process: telenovela, receptor, listener Danilo, producer of digital content, Lorelay Fox and their interlocutors. We conclude that the everyday situations shared in these multiple narratives gives visibilities to individual and collective identities, as well as (re) constructs subjectivities and, throught that the trans experiences may be a little more authorized, in a mediatized mode of existence.