“The body wants, the soul understands”(?): religious crossings to the body-territory-LGBT+

atravessamentos religiosos ao corpo-território-LGBT+

Abstract

Based on the idea of ​​body-territory developed by Eduardo Miranda and in Transviad@s by Berenice Bento, I discuss the life stories of queer teachers crossed by the religious question in their identity constitution of the body-territory-LGBT+ and how their teaching representations and representativeness absorb these other movements in school institutions. Through the (auto)biographical narratives provided by the Narrative Interview and the production of self-portraits of four teachers (two gay, one lesbian and one bi/pansexual) of Basic Education in Bahia, they report their life-narratives pointing out how religion/religiosity/belief crossed and produced their personal and professional identities and perceive the cycle to be repeated among the students. The results indicate that the queer teacher has his/her identities (un)quiet by feelings of non-belonging, demarcated by existential voids, invisibilization and questions about themselves.