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Youth microsemiotics of sexuality: identities and practices that do not conform to “normality”.

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Vol. 33 No. 65 (2025): Octubre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.80882
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Abstract

The article describes the youth microsemiotics of sexuality based on the life stories of young people from Tucumán, Argentina, which can be read as the transition from expropriated youth identities (those that reproduce the hegemonic model, "the normal ones") to youth identities own (those that break with the norm, "the rare ones"). In other words, it analyzes youth micro-stories that are inserted within minority counter-hegemonic collectives, such as those proposed by non-binary gender identities and queer identities. Through the semiotic reading of a life story, we analyze the conditions of production of discourses far from the social norm (heterosexual) in Tucumán, Argentina, in whose productive grammars the great stories operate (adult-centric, heterosexual, macho, patriarchal and religious) exerting forces through a power codified through opposites (good/bad, normal/abnormal, natural/unnatural), which condition the ways of thinking, perceiving, feeling and living sexuality, gender identities and desire.

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sexuality, youth, Semiotics, gender identities.

Author Biography

Mariana del Valle Prado

Doctora en Humanidades. Profesora de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0662-3682 H5: 1 Correo electrónico: mariana.prado@filo.unt.edu.ar Este artículo es una síntesis de la investigación denominada «Macrosemióticas juveniles y nuevas subjetividades de aprendizaje en la semiosis digital. Estudio de caso de estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán», presentada por la autora para optar por el título de Doctora en Humanidades (Orientación Ciencias de la Comunicación), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina 2021. Realizada entre octubre de 2018 y octubre de 2021.

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Prado, M. del V. (2025). Youth microsemiotics of sexuality: identities and practices that do not conform to “normality”. Última Década, 33(65), 225–254. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.80882
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