Potent bodies that see, freak bodies that are seen: analysis on a non-binary and modified body

Abstract

The present article invests in the analysis of an interview conducted in the year 2014 (during the interviewer's doctoral research) and analyzed and written together with the interviewee in 2019 (after six years). In the polyphonic process the experience of Thi Angel's own body was highlighted, Thi Angel, performer art, history teacher of a peripheral public school in Osasco-SP, who in the last two decades researches about body modification (bodymodification) and the different uses of the body. Thi Angel points out how the trajectory of his body modifications went along with his activism for sexual and reproductive rights, human and animal rights, his connection with veganism and performance art. During the first interview, Thi Angel narrates her stylistic existence and the writings and marks built on her body through performance art, as well as brings the difficulties of low vision due to the disease Keratoconus, since the age of 14, and the emergence of transplants in both eyes. Already in 2019, the reunion for this polyphonic writing recalls and announces the occurrences experienced after 6 years. The cartographic positioning was the support and connection with the world to carry out the analyses of the events and the interviews that were audiotaped and transcribed in full. For the elaboration of such analyses we resorted to the theoreticalmethodological epistemes of the Philosophy of Difference, Queer Theory, Crip Theory, and Gender Studies.