Emilia Braz's dissertation is a finalist of the Esocite.br Award

researcher Emilia Braz, doctoral student of the UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS)), is the finalist of the Esocite.br Theses, Dissertations and TCCs Award, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies. The award recognizes, every two years, the best academic works in the field of social studies of science and technology.

Emilia Braz's dissertation

"hair is everything: materializing cisgeneity from body hair"

guided by Professor Paula Sandrine Machado and co-orientated by Professor Fabíola Rohden, member of the research group Science in Life, the dissertation investigates the materialization of cisgeneity from body hair, discussing how sex, gender, race and humanity are produced as body borders and political.

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Research articulates feminist and social studies of science with trans studies, proposing another narrative for the concept of cisgeneity. Work starts from the question: Can a trans woman be diagnosed with hirsutism?

Based on material-discursive practices and the fabulative speculation of scientific knowledge, dissertation analyzes cisgeneity not as a natural evidence of sexual dimorphism, but as a body production apparatus through which cis and trans bodies are differentially constructed.