Queer and crip theories in the rupture of hegemonic epistemologies on Psychology/As teorias queer e crip no rompimento das epistemologias hegemonicas da Psicologiad

This article aims to establish a relationship between psychology, as a field of production of knowledge and practices, and issues raised by the so-called queer (transviadas) and crip (aleijadas) theories. These theories emerge as a counterpoint to epistemologies that conceive subjects in a universalizing and normalizing way, and take into account how frameworks such as gender, sexuality, race and disability are inscribed in bodies and produce socially, historically and politically situated subjectivities. We understand that their contributions are in the sense of bringing to light the mechanisms of classification, hierarchization and exclusion perpetuated by the ideals of body normativity and cisheteronormativity, which confer intelligibility to certain bodies, while relegating abjection to others. Finally, we point out the need for psychology, when challenged by this counter-hegemonic knowledge, to deal with its own implication in the process of adjustment and normalization of dissident modes of existence, as well as in the power relations it maintains through its discourses and practices.