Catalogue "Life as a Faggot" by Jão.
Existing and resisting in a sexist and prejudiced society, especially as an LGBTQIA + artist, is an act that requires strength and courage facing so much injustice and disrespect. “Life as Queer: Cartographies of Resistant Bodies” is a sequence of drawings from the artbook/body - map/mind of Jão, visual artist from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
The drawings were produced in October 2019, the artist used the process of creating the artbook/body map as a moment of expurgation of feelings that had been repressed for a long time. The book reveals secrets, sharing constraints and denials of sexuality experienced by the artist, through illustrations that express outbursts, hurts and pains of the neglected, forgotten or even unseen by cis - and transgender homosexuals - who are disrespected daily, resulting in denial and depression due to the obligation to adapt to social contexts, whether in the family, at work or any other social context.
