ACID HUMOR IN CARE AMONG YOUTH

Abstract

This article aims to show how acidic humor emerged in a subgroup of youth from empirical research derived from a thematic investigation. In a high school in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, a subgroup of primarily LGBT+ students was gradually creating a decoding of internalized meanings of mental suffering, which allowed them to touch complex content in the elaboration of painful psychosocial experiences. Empirical research was used, justified by the Deleuze-Guattarian theoretical notion of jurisprudence, deducted in practice for the affective jurisprudence within the intimacy consented between a specific group of students who practiced acid humor. The methodology integrated empirical data from thematic mixed-methods research with theoretical elaboration within the Deleuze-Guattarian framework. The article selects the duality of teasing and being teased, dealing with acidic humor as a strategy of a given collective care within an affective jurisprudence used to combat violence and LGBT+phobia. Finally, it concludes with the importance of acidic humor as a collective care strategy among young people in their living spaces or in programmatic actions and services aimed at this segment.