Exhausted, But Standing! Reflections on the Immunological Dispositive Challenging Transvestites and Transgender Women in the Educational System

In this article I discuss the exhaustion experienced by transvestites and/or transsexual women, black and white, in the Brazilian educational system. I also discuss the concept of Immune Device developed by the Chinese philosopher Byung-Chul Han (2015) trying to understand to what extent it impacts or not the school routine of transvestites and/or transsexual women, black and white. To carry out this discussion, I resort to the (auto)biographical method developed by the white cis gay researcher Marcio Caetano (2016) for agreeing that personal and professional experiences, even if produced in specific and individualized contexts, are relational and can be connected/compared with the narrations of other life stories. Thus, adopting a life trajectory combined with a cultural, post-structuralist perspective, with feminist, transfeminist and ethnic-racial and gender relations studies, as well as with the intersectionality concept proposed by the black American jurist Kimberlé Krenshaw (2002. No category discussed here is treated as something static, fixed, crystallized, in explicit opposition to the essentialist views that generalize existences and disregard the multiple processes that involve them.