Sobre viver: mulheres negras em trajetórias de desinstitucionalização, uma perspectiva interseccional. Ome ife ukwu, aquela que faz coisas incríveis.

Abstract

Crazy black women´s trajectories, must be theorized, as they speak of individual and collective processes, how power systems that operationalize oppressions are organized, by classifying and ranking social groups, and how these determinates who the bodies are, which, marked in their groups, are eligible for typifications of death, incarceration and illness, including mental illness. The thesis aims to analyze in an intersectional perspective how black women with narratives of illness and experiences of psychic suffering build trajectories of deinstitutionalization in mental health. The research has a qualitative approach, with ethnographic inspiration, carried out between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021 with black women who experience mental illness processes, as well as recovery processes, and people who come to talk about these experiences, assisted in mental health services from Salvador – BA. The sample is intentional, made using the snowball selection technique. Intersectionality was taken as a theoretical and methodological perspective, guided by feminist theory and method and black feminism. For the intersectional analysis, the approach was intracategory, through narrative interviews, in a biographical perspective, to know the concrete black women´s life experiences in contexts. The interpretation was made from the narrative interviews´s analysis. The black women´s trajectories in this thesis have similarities in terms of structural racism´s collective effects and the colonial trauma´s individual effects. Racism was observed to structure the lives of these women, with psychic implications on their histories, intersectionalized in race and gender by gendered racism´s processes. The colonial trauma legacy was also observed, in the similarities and particularities of its possibilities in the private and public black women´s daily lives regarding: family life, their childhoods, access to education and formal work, possibilities and ways of mothering, difficulty in naming racism, victimizing and silencing them, for which a psychiatrized look was launched to produce appropriateness and some care. The black women´s trajectories in this thesis, teach that it is necessary to racialize mental health care, informed by intersectional matrices that considers race and gender social markers differences that determine ways of living, to understand how gendered racism crosses and transversalizes life trajectories of black women, with violence, shaping histories of psychic suffering and mental illness. But not only, there are resistances, passive and active. Racialized turn to point out equity in the production of mental health care.