Educação Sexual e de Gênero: Narrativas de Vida das Pessoas Surdas

Abstract

Our research aimed to analyze the accessibility to sex education and the information and knowledge of gender issues by deaf people. In this sense, we have as specific objectives: a) To identify the sexual and gender education promoted in the childhood and adolescence, in the family space; b) Analyze the provision of sex education and gender in the school environment in terms of approach and accessibility; c) Understand how deaf people access information about sexuality today and if this information is available in pounds and materials suitable for the deaf community. This investigation is relevant from a social point of view, as it contributes to deaf people often marginalized and excluded by society have full access to sexual and gender education and become autonomous and aware of their bodies and identities. From the point of view academic, through Guacira Lopes Louro (1997; 2000), Jimena Furlani (2011; 2016) and Ana Claudia Bortolozzi Maia (2011; 2012; 2019), contributes to gender studies and sexuality become more inclusive and less listening and also contributes to the deaf studies in education or studies in the field of inclusion encompass issues of gender and sexuality, which are also very important in the lives of deaf people. Methodologically, it was an exploratory qualitative study using interviews semi-structured. With regard to the analysis of the data produced in the interviews, a according to gender and sexuality studies in Education. The search results in showed that in the family space the deaf participants had little information about gender and sexuality, operated more in silence and in control of their bodies. In space school, the dominant sexual education was the biologicist one, but inaccessible in most part of the time, due to the lack of full interpretation of the materials and classes. We can see how the The interviewees' family and school were unable to provide sexual education for the their autonomy. Friendships are often the “refuge” for the deaf community when need to be informed about gender and sexuality in the absence of family and school. In life As an adult, in addition to friendships, deaf people turn to social networks for information. But not even on the networks everything is accessible, we can conclude that there is a real need for video production, educational materials and appropriate signs for promotion knowledge, in gender and sexuality, of deaf people.