EVEN A WHITE AND RICH PERSON MAKE MORE MISTAKES THAN WE, WHO IS POOR, BLACK AND TATTOOED!”: THE RACE-SEX-CLASS OVERLAP AND ETHICAL-POLITICAL SUFFERING IN FEMALE FEMALE SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
female Socio-educational System; deprivation of freedom; ethical-political suffering; sex-race-class overlap; Marxist Feminism.
From the slavery period to the present day, Brazilian elites have maintained their privileges at the expense of controlling, disciplining, oppressing and exploiting subalternized groups, being the black and peripheral women the most affected. Such functioning is engendered in the structuring social relations - characterized by the conflicts and contradictions between the different sexes, races and social classes - that support the production and reproduction of the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist system. In it, the State has managed the consequences of the “social issue” through the criminalization of people considered not only undesirable, but, above all, disposable, being the majority target of this phenomenon, the poor and black youth. However, within this group, there is still a differentiated intensification of the process of oppression / exploitation: girls who are under a socio-educational institutionalization. Based on the concreteness of social inequalities, the lack of access to fundamental rights and structural violence, the perverse exclusion / inclusion binomial is forged, marked by affections that conjure up suffering that is expressed collectively and through feelings such as humiliation and guilt. This dynamic attests to the lack of commitment of society and the State to subordinate groups, thus making this suffering characterized as ethical-political, which will exist as long as the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist system is in force. Thus, based on the Marxist Feminism perspective to understand reality, the question was: how do the ethical-political suffering and the sex-race-class overlap are articulate in the lives of adolescents and young people who are deprived of their freedom? As a general objective, we have: to analyze how the ethical-political suffering, in interface with the sex-race-class overlap, permeates the experience of deprivation of freedom for adolescents and young women; and as specific: a) observe the institutional dynamics that permeates the experience of deprivation of liberty for adolescents and young people; and b) analyze, from the narratives of adolescents and young people, the presence of sex-race-class overlap in interface with ethical-political suffering as constituents of their subjectivation processes. The study was carried out in a socio-educational unit for female institutionalization, with adolescents and young people aged 14 to 20 years. As methodological tools for surveying content in the field, participant observation and photovoice were used. In the analysis, articulating with the aforementioned theoretical lenses, the following nuclei of meaning were built: a) of the affectation for being inside the unit; and b) the affectation of being and feeling of being. It was observed that the ethical-political suffering, in articulation with the sex-race-class overlap, is built, in the experience of the girls in the unit: by the punitive logic in detriment of the socio-educational, by the distance of their families, by the existence of sexual taboos on women, for the absence of freedom and for the occurrence of discrimination, expressed intensely by police violence. It is concluded that the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist ideology works by effecting violations of rights and victimizing a public that should be protected as a priority, being urgent the establishment of collective struggles of feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist nature.