A vida precária a partir da precariedade menstrual : uma análise acerca da identidade social de pessoas negras que menstruam na microrregião de Guarabira-PB

Abstract

Some lives are seen and treated as more important. This is evident when bringing up issues of race, class, gender and sexuality, even when these are interconnected - as in the black body that menstruates in a situation of economic vulnerability. Considering that discourses of power legitimize inequality and violence against subjects who do not fit into certain categories (being male/white/cis/hetero/rich) they stand out negatively, not being characterized as important - but as “deviant beings”. Bearing in mind the existing hierarchy in the way of treating some bodies, the main objective of the present work is to analyze the scenarios of precariousness regarding self-care, such as menstrual poverty, in order to observe to what extent such precariousness is associated with the power that regulates lives under a racist and sexist logic. It is in this context that we also end up discussing and problematizing the social identity of this body that is already born under stigmatizing labels. To deal with the social imaginary, there is reference to the philosopher and historian Bronislaw Baczko, for whom such a concept would be a set of collective representations that serve the interests of those in power. Regarding social representations, in addition to the performance treated by Judith Butler as a norm, the reference to sociologist and anthropologist Erving Goffman is also relevant, whose speech is about how some behaviors are adopted to escape stigma. To understand the impacts that this imaginary generates on the identity of black people, one of the authors worked on, in addition to Frantz Fanon, is the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Neusa Santos and also the psychoanalyst Virginia Leone Bicudo, authors who speak about the search for the ideal of whiteness. In addition to citing the social images created by white people about black women, something so exquisitely worked on by Patricia Hill Collins and bell hooks, another key reference is the psychologist Cida Bento - who talks about the power of whiteness that remains in the face of a daily signed pact of unconscious way. In the field of studying identity, especially social identity, four authors were brought to bring this understanding: Stuart Hall, Zygmunt Bauman, Antonio Ciampa and Claude Dubar. And in an attempt to bring an understanding of what power is, how it moves and for what purposes, in addition to Michel Foucault, also Achille Mbembe and Sueli Carneiro - a reference in the speech about racism as a device of power. In addition to bibliographical research, the application of semi-structured interviews was also used as an important methodological technique to expose essentialities retained in the interviewed bodies, allowing an analysis of a racist biopolitics that interferes with the identity of the subjects. From these perspectives, the research presents itself as qualitative, basic and exploratory, using oral history and CDA as methods for carrying out data analysis. The results we intend to achieve are a reflection on lives limited by being in a place of exclusion in a regulated society.