Um encontro entre as vozes e a escuta: diálogos sobre saúde mental com mulheres negras moradoras de favela

Abstract

Black women, in the Brazilian context, are crossed by social markers such as race, gender and class. By contextualizing such crossings with the favela and the peripheries we are faced with classism as one of the intersectional markers that can presente themselves in their experiences, crossing subjectivity and identily construction. Faced with state violence and other social markers that cross the black population, black women living in favela develop strategies to respond and confront this device for the production of experience. The problem question presented in this study refers to the construction of the identity of black women living in favelas and the crossings in mental health, resulting from the intersectionality between race, gender, class, terntóno and state violence in the territory, as well as the coping and mental health care strategies elaborated by them. The objective of this research was to investigate and understand the impacts produced by race, gender and class markers on the mental health of black women living in favelas and the mental health care responses elaborated and applied by them in the face of recurring state violence in the territory. We conduced a qualitative exploratory research through the case study method. For data collection, we use instruments such as field diary, semi-structured interview and sociodemographic questionnaire, in order to investigate the intermediaries and mental health care strategies developed and applied by black women living in the Complexo do Alemão in the face of state violence in the territory. We selected for participation self-declared black women, over 18 years old and residents of one of the fifteen favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemão. The interviews were áudio-recorded and transcribed, conducted remotely and in person, acoording to the avaliability of each participant. For análisis of the collected data we use the contente analysis method. As a result, we show that black women living in favelas develop emotional regulation strategies as a mental health care practice, as well as have a support network, represented mainly by the Family, which occupy roles of care and protation in the face of state violence in the territory.