Injustice of LGBTQIA+ Gender and Sexuality: the production of knowledge on the sidelines in information science in the southern region.

ABSTRACT

Objective:

The article aims to identify productions on LGBTQIA+ gender and sexuality studies in Information Science (CI). In this bibliographic research, the theoretical contribution follows an approach of gender and sexuality studies with the perspective of epistemic injustice and its structural and hermeneutic approaches in the context of power relations and historical inequalities of people who escape the heterosexual hegemony.

Method:

The focus of the survey are the research lines of Graduate Programs (PPGs) and academic productions in the CAPES Catalog of Theses and Dissertations that address gender and sexuality issues in the southern region of Brazil in Cl. It is interesting to identify the contributions of the field in the genesis and development of production spaces on the theme. From the mapping of theoretical and methodological references, as well as more recurrent objects of study, it is intended to delineate the contributions, advances and limits of the IC field in the context of historical inequalities. We understand the relevance of identifying authors and institutions contemporizing the discussions of intersectional and decolonial studies.

Result:

It is relevant to identify structuring forms of maintenance of power and spaces of resistance and overcoming the inequalities of representations and experiences that bring meaning in the historical and social context to those who escape norms and hegemonies about gender and sexuality. We identified a total of 42 theses and dissertations in IC on the themes of gender and sexuality, of which only 6 were carried out in southern Brazil. As for research lines of PPGs, of the 24 higher education institutions in Brazil that offer master and doctoral courses, in only one line of research was the term “gender” identified in its description.

Conclusions:

Among them we consider that the themes in focus are still underrepresented in the LGBTQIA+ approach both in research lines and in academic production.

KEYWORDS:
Gender and Sexuality; Epistemic injustice; LGBTQIA+; Gender-sexuality information