“Mais família, menos Estado”: o agenciamento das questões de gênero e sexualidade pela extrema direita brasileira

Abstract

This study proposed to construct interpretative keys about the orders of gender and sexuality in the political agenda of the Brazilian extreme right during the years 2010 to 2020, through the audiovisual analysis of Plataforma Brasil Paralelo. By going through the ideological fronts of ongoing neofascist trends, we highlight the protagonism of the “gender ideology device” articulated with the spectrum of anticommunism, as well as the centrality of the heteronormative family as an elementary institution in the neoconservative and neoliberal architecture of the extreme right. To this end, it sought to identify the re-updating of the dynamics of oppression, exploitation and domination sedimented in the Brazilian socio- historical trajectory triggered in the defense of the homeland, morals and family by the neoconservative offensive; understand the articulation of the neoliberalization of the economy and the moralizing agendas of gender and sexuality in the ideological and political repertoire of the extreme right, especially in the Plataforma Brasil Paralelo (BP); and reflect on the ideological centrality of the family in the narratives produced by the Brazilian extreme right, through BP. In order to understand the political, economic and ideological plots, in the light of critical dialectical guidance, qualitative approach and content analysis, we analyzed 12 audiovisual productions chosen by the intersection with the debate on gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, family, new right, extreme right and Brazilian social formation. Surfing the digital environment, the documentary series of Plataforma Brasil Paralelo play a crucial role in the construction of narratives, the creation of images and stereotypes, the seduction and legitimization of behaviors, the definition of forms of social belonging, the formation of opinions and the dissemination of values and ideologies. With this theoretical-methodological investigation, we found that the extreme right disputes a certain intellectuality, fostering an editorial body to support its political defenses, through the dispute over the meaning of what it intends to destroy. Human rights, in particular, appear as a field of tensions and conflicts, to the extent that it is appropriated by the Brazilian extreme right, which disputes, empties and distorts its historical meaning. In their productions, they re-update the figure of the hero of the Brazilian nation, deny history and consequently reparation policies, especially for women, black people, indigenous people and LGBTI+. To conclude, we understand that the neoconservative offensive and the extreme right-wing offensive registered in other parts of the world acquire particularities of our socio-historical formation that prefigure a colonial and heteronormative nation, with a slave base and peripheral and dependent capitalism. The visibility and persecutory capillarity of gender and sexuality issues in the current historical period are related to the spread of extreme right movements in Brazil, through militancy around the fallacious “gender ideology” and the narrow promotion of the “family” integrating government policy.