Abstract
This article analyzes the performativity of Francisca da Silva, queen of the festival of the Reisado Santa Helena (associated to Three Kings Day), in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará State. It discusses the role of sexual dissidence in agency and resistance to the regional context, based on sociological theory from a decolonial gender perspective. The ethnographic course considers Tica's performance as a key point to understand crossings in the religious rite and how they can influence heteronormativity, forcing a permeability to non binaryism in the poetics of the tradition.
Body; Popular Religiosity; Transsexuality