"Quem vive na margem não se afoga nessa água": Bissexualidade, Interseccionalidade e Direito à Cidade. em Ponta Grossa - Paraná.

Abstract

With this work we seek to understand how bisexual people, with their different identity intersections, experience the Right to the City in Ponta Grossa - Paraná, Brazil. For that, we are anchored mainly in four categories: Identity, Intersectionality, Bisexuality and the Right to the City. In order to carry out an intersectional-identity analysis of space, we used the Relief Maps methodology, developed by Maria Rodó-de-Zárate (2011). Through this methodology, we were able to carry out individual and groupal analyses of 13 bisexuals living in Ponta Grossa - Paraná, Brazil. They were found using the technique of snowball sampling (GOODMAN, 1961). The Relief Maps methodology condenses three dimensions: identity, geographic and emotional. The identity dimension of the project we elaborated covers gender, bisexual and class identities. The geographical dimension includes Housing, General Public Spaces, the Internet, the Neighborhood, Political Groups, Educational Institutions, Leisure Spaces, Work, the Body and the City. The emotional dimension includes feelings of Acceptance, Relief, Freedom, Security, Indifference, Preoccupation, Control, Fear and Discrimination. With this, we could observe that negative emotions are more frequent, in general, than positive ones for bisexuals living in Ponta Grossa. This influences the use of urban spaces, where this accumulation of negative feelings often generates a rupture and/or disconnection with space. The City was the scale with the greatest accumulation of negative affections, concentrating an unanimity about the feeling of preoccupation. In contrast, Housing is the scale with the greatest accumulation of positive affections, but it still presents itself as a conflicting and even interdicted spatiality, especially when we consider dissident gender identities and sexualities. Being conceived as a right that unites all others, the Right to the City in Ponta Grossa - Paraná, regarding the people who self-identify as bisexual, proved, in these parameters, as a selective, unilateral and paradoxical right. Despite this, when negotiating with the matrices of power, these people create alternatives to experience space in order to make it less interdicted, thus demonstrating that they have agency over space, even if they do not fully exercise it.