The occupy movement in Brazilian state schools, in Rio de Janeiro, 2016, ignited a spirit of resistance among secondary students. Starting from this context, the present study seeks to analyze, from a local perspective, how the concept of horizontality, a central parameter of such a movement, occurs in the participants’ speeches. I intend to examine the way meanings and identities are constructed in its narratives, focusing on how gender and power direct these discursive constructions. The in-depth interview is used here as a means for generating data. As for the analysis, the perspective of Interactional Sociolinguistics and Narrative Inquiry present in the qualitative and interpretative paradigm were applied. The analysis focuses on the coconstructed narratives emerged from the interviews, understood here as a space for construction and negotiation of meaning taking place in the macro social sphere. The results point to narrative strategies used to formulate discursive accounts, justifying actions that interfere in the horizontality, blaming the circumstances for asymmetrical actions taken by the participants. Also, gender aspects of speech related to scenarios where binary understandings of the categories men and women prevail, still sustain a rigid pattern ruled by society. Conversely, the space for social literacy provided by the occupy movement, together with the notion of horizontality as a normative possibility, generated questions that promoted a change in attitude in the students, contrary to the traditional patriarchal logics. Finally, this dissertation raises a critical and multidisciplinary debate, stimulating the reflection on practical possibilities for deconstruction of problematic gender paradigms in the school environment. Furthermore, it allows other forms of subject realization of the self.