QUEERMUSEU: MNEMÔNICA AGAINST CENSORSHIP

Abstract

After seven years of the opening and premature closing of the Queermuseu — Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira exposition it still raises questions about the reaction people had related to its content and the reason why this reaction was so violent. Even after some years, the event that happened in August, 2017, is still part of debates in the museum field. With regard to a social museology perspective, the understatement of the way in which the results of communicating my last academic publishing about the LGBTphobic discourse as a censorship tool was received is aimed in this article. The qualitative analysis of discourse such as online forums and social networks’ comments was done focusing on the manner in which this discourse manifests as social policing. A perspective about the communication process of researches that work with painful and difficult memories was outlined to get to the general and academic public. Later, I discuss digital memento and digital artifacts safekeeping and the loss of digital archives as the dissociation of social memory. In conclusion, this work ponders about approaches for safekeeping of said artifacts in archives and institutions in the fiscal and digital media.