“A gente acaba sendo ferida pela própria segurança”: adoecimentos e cuidados na trajetória de vida de jovens negros(as) da periferia de Juazeiro-BA

Abstract

Black and peripheral youth suffer numerous violations of rights, including the very right to exist with dignity and access to good living. In this context, we understand that public social facilities destined for territories of greater vulnerability and social risks, materialize public policies and social rights generated by social movements and managed by SUAS. The ethics that permeate the policies implemented by CRAS need to stick to the construction of space and mitigate suffering arising from the mischaracterization and silencing of the subjectivities of those who have specific community color and histories. The present study sought, through the personal professional memories and the listening work of five young people, aged between 19 and 23 years, three women and two men, self-declared blacks and residents of the Tabuleiro neighborhood, in Juazeiro/BA, to understand, from the perspective of these young people, the mechanisms of exclusion and illnesses that cross the daily life of the periphery, to identify possible resources of resistance and (self)care and, specific needs reported by them. In order to understand the corpus of analyzed data, autobiography and the hermeneutic-dialectical method were used, which helped us to think about the broad, multifaceted social phenomena that permeate the daily lives of young people living in the urban periphery of Tabuleiro. The analysis of the narratives points to a frequent and intense experience of multiple violences, which produce social helplessness and emotional illnesses, such as depression, anxiety and suicide attempts, highlighting the importance of a psychology that considers the intersection of oppression systems based on gender, race and social class. Such oppressions are presented in the narratives of young people living in the periphery as markers, which need to be marked out so that there is effective and comprehensive care. In contrast, young people develop self-care technologies, use protection resources against violence, building resistance. Public policies, in this scenario of exclusion, have serious performance limitations. Based on this study, we understand the importance of integrated public policies based on the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion and territory. As a result of this research, aiming to contribute to thinking about “ways of care” that are integral and located in their territories, an illustrated string on intersectionality was made, based on the elements observed in the narratives of the young people, to be distributed in schools, UBS and CRAS of the Tabuleiro neighborhood, especially for professionals in these policies.