"NO ONE EVER ASKED ME": SEXUAL HEALTH OF BLACK WOMEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH OTHER WOMEN
Sexual Health; Race; Sexuality; Homoerotic practices; MSM.
This dissertation goal is the investigation of experiences hold by black women who have homoerotic sexual practices. Using decolonial studies as theoretical approach emphasized by the “modern colonial gender system”, the central analysis of this study is drawn to women who are recurrently submitted to discursive, historical and political erasure from a patriarchal,heteronormative and racist society. Trough mini courses and interviews the author analyzed the types of sexual health self care adopted by women whose sexual practices diverge from the imperative heteronormativity. The acting camp of the analysis was Teixeira de Freitas city on Bahia state, in Brazil. The conclusive argument is that Brazilian Healthcare centers are conscious about sexual practices, although, over a heterosexual perspective, which reinforces the ideia that homoerotic practices between women aren’t understood as legitimate relations, making the need for sexual health care of these public invisible. The Brazilian healthcare centers should be focused on the promotion of health care and prevention behaviors related to sexual practices and the not assumption of sexuality. For which cenário was developed a educational material about sexual health self care for homoerotic women.