Erotic senses

Powering Brazilian Black queer existence in gynecological spaces

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2289232
AutoresNessette Falu (0000-0001-8185-4646, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas477-489
Fecha de publicación2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12841
PMID38285808
OpenAlexW4391304897
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas36

This paper explores how Brazilian Black queer women's sensorial knowing expresses the ways that anti-Blackness and anti-queerness are experienced within Brazilian gynecological spaces. I show how Black queer forms of sensory representations signal the intimacy of occupying place and time in power relations. What does it mean to feel, touch, and see the mechanisms of prejudice and institutional power? What are the sounds and vibrations of racism and heteronormativity in medicine? What do the senses tell us about Black queer bodies' orientations and adverse reactions within those spaces? I engage the senses to understand how sensorial knowledge is keenly embedded in the evidence and informs how Black queer life is shaped within the quotidian. I discuss how sensorial experiences for the critical possibilities of conceptualizing sensoriality and social meanings of medical space and place and in relation to the material world of gynecology and its technologies

Aesthetics · Art · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Power (physics · Prejudice (legal term · Queer · Racism · Relation (database · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology