Vidas Precárias de Travestis Negras: Uma Geografia do Machismo e da Transfobia em Parnaíba­PI

Abstract

This article analyzes the experiences of violence against black travestis in the face of machismo and transphobia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In methodological terms, we use cartography using affective diaries that allow a dense dive in the territories, braiding a geography of violence against black travestis in the city of Parnaíba-PI. According to ANTRA data, black travestis represent on average 80% of cases of lethal transphobia in Brazil, which puts these bodies in the crosshairs of afronecrotransphobia. It is observed that the pandemic process intensified the situation of precarious lives of black travestis, since social isolation has made it difficult to enter and stay in the labor market, and it is highlighted that 90% of trans women live from prostitution, reduced access, already limited, to social security institutions. In the geography of violence, affective diaries narrate two situations of sexist and transphobic violence, both against black travestis on public roads in the city of Parnaíba-PI. The victims sought support with the social worker of Acolhe Trans, a non-governmental collective, who in the reception directed to the complaint, however, both showed distrust in carrying out the procedures due to impunity in cases of transphobia. In this sense, it is understood that, in a regime of afronecrotransphobia, the absence or difficulty of access to public policies produces violence and deaths of the transgender population, especially the black population.

Keywords: Black travestis. Afronecrotransphobia. Precarious lives.