Entre as violências ocorridas e as esperadas:

antecipações, estratégias de evitação e outras negociações na circulação de jovens não heterossexuais em uma favela carioca

Abstract

In this article, drawing on the notion of “violent sociability” (Machado da Silva, 2008), I address some of the dynamics of circulation within a network of LGBTI+ young people living in a favela in the city of Rio de Janeiro, paying particular attention to how certain emotions shape the processes of subjectivation experienced by the research collaborators. That is, I discuss how the expectation of violence and the feeling of fear, experienced through the belief of being constantly at risk, shape their movements within that territory, thereby impacting their processes of self-construction. Finally, based on a “flirtation” I maintained with a favela resident, I analyze some discourses produced in response to transgressions of behaviors considered appropriate in that context, allowing me, on the one hand, to reflect on my own position and that of the research I was conducting in the field, as well as to highlight some mechanisms of control and surveillance of attitudes present among one of the networks with which I carried out the ethnography.