Dissidência corporal e monstruosidade em Monstrans: Experimentando horrormônios

Abstract

In 2012, the cartoonist Lino Arruda published the graphic novel Monstrans: experimentando horrormônios, where he explores his experiences with disabilities, transmasculinity, and lesbianity, representing himself shifting shapes between human and creature. The study developed here seeks to analyze this representation, raising questions of dissidente corporealities, gender and sexuality, observing how they are represented by the cartoonist as he narrates and fictionalizes his own experiences. Thus, the theories developed by Groensteen (2015), and Baetens and Frey (2015), the analysis of graphic representation of horror by Reijonen (2021), Klinger’s thesis on writing of the self (2012), as well as the 17^th edition of Gender Troubles (BUTLER, 2019), and Paul B. Preciado’s speech to the academy of psychoanalysts in 2019, Can the monster speak?, where he makes observations on trans lives in psychoanalysis theory, were considered in the study