Beyond identity: LGBTQIA+ struggles and demands between social and economic vulnerabilities
The objective of this work is to address the demands of LGBTQIA+ struggles, a field demarcated as “identitarian” and reduced to struggles articulated around the so-called demands for recognition. It seeks to analyze the scope of oppression experienced, the context of economic deprivation and exposure to violence in which the recognition of diversity, as a mechanism for inclusion and combating discrimination, appears as part of the solution to the problem, but which does not encompass all the dimensions faced by this population. While the theoretical discussions of the last three decades have advanced in the criticism of the symbolic-identity reduction in relation to studies on women and the black population, there is a gap in relation to the economic dimension of LGBTQIA+ struggles. In this sense, the intention is to answer which aspects in relation to LGBTQIA+ oppressions point to a relationship between cultural discrimination and exposure to economic vulnerability, specifically considering their insertion in the labor market. The research is carried out through the discussion of data produced by governmental and non-governmental entities in relation to violence against LGBTQIA+ people, such as socio-economic data from the National Survey of the LGBTI+ Profile 2018 and the Sobreviver project, carried out between 2020 and 2021 in articulation with social movements in the Greater ABC region. The aspects taken for analysis are income, education and insertion in the job market, seen in an intersectional way, and taken to analyze the relationship between exposure to violence and material deprivation.