Somatic education as an ally in the integral (health and social) care of people who experiencing sexual and gender dissidences

Abstract

From July/2017 to July/2018, the Volunteer’s PIBIC research “Pedagogy of the Creator Body (or Somatic Theater)” was developed at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) campus São Cristóvão. Our part in this research was focused in the appliance in the health field. Thus, as a beginner theater student we did a bibliographic research with thematic discussions in order to gain understandings about the viability of the development of the Somatic Education Project for transsexual people, transvestites, or even, who understood and / or experienced (n) the “Gender dissidences”. The urgency and necessary growing visibility of the political agenda is highlighted by the guarantee of the right of the population already mentioned. Even so, there is a scarcity or fragile systematization of modes of attention and care to it, as well as the very close frontier of gender studies and the innumerable discussions about gender performance as a social construction in constant dialogue with the doing (s) artistic (s). A fertile field was envisaged for what was named at the end of the aforementioned research cycle: “Somatic Technique for Health - Somatic Education interfaces with Klauss Vianna Technique for issues of Integral Health and Citizenship for Trans people”. Cumulating reflections on the great umbrella of composing techniques in the field of somatic education and using the Brazilian Technique Klauss Vianna as a guideline, clues for pedagogical work, direct and / or indirect therapeutic management and the enhancement of autonomy in the process were grouped creative of themselves.