Singularidades dos amores plurais: Considerações sobre o poliamor no Brasil

Abstract

This research aims to reflect on polyamory in Brazil, observing its different conceptualizations and forms of expression, as well as its forms of resistance, subversion (Preçado, 2014) and creation of new knowledge-pleasures (Foucault, 2021), having as general objective, to analyze the repercussion of polyamory in the social sphere, based on decolonial theories (Lugones, 2008; Curiel, 2013 and Quijano, 2005), Marxism (Kollontai, 2021; Moraes, and Federici, 2022), anthropology (Wagner, 2010 and Segato, 2021) and gender studies (Haraway, 2009 and Preciado, 2014), with the intention of situating this affective-sexual modality also in its political character, seeking to observe its implications in the legal sphere, in reports and articles newspapers, as well as on pages on the social network Instagram, starting with reports of two polyamorous trajectories, which demonstrated the forms of both emotional and social experience. Therefore, it was possible to observe that polyamory still finds itself in an in-between place in Brazilian society, presenting concepts and forms of experience that are still in dispute, both among its followers and in its impacts on the social sphere, finding forms of acceptance, regulation and attempts at prohibition. Therefore, I understand that polyamory has a mainly political potential, being located in a social field open to (re)significations and (re)constructions of meaning, with a view to subverting the monogamous-capitalist-heterosexual logic.