Intersectionality of gender, race and class:

the Museum of the Person as an element of rupture of social denial

Abstract

This article aims to present “Museu da Pessoa” as a possible stage for giving testimony, breaking with social disavowal, and promoting respect to diversity, with emphasis to the intersectionality between gender, race, and class. It uses a qualitative methodology through document analysis. Data was collected on the proposal of the museum itself and later were analyzed the stories of two people who have face LGBTphobia intersected with racial realities. Considering we understand that each testimony is unique, singular, and never a totality, each story chosen for this research was in dialog with the concepts of disavowal, trauma, identifying with the aggressor, confusion of tongues, and testimony.