Woman at the end of the world: feminicidal violence against black women’s health

Abstract

This article discusses feminicidal violence and some of its manifestations against Black women. It aims to highlight  how everyday experiences and social and power  relationships affect this population group and trivialize the  violence that affects them, legitimizing high mortality rates from different preventable causes without these being  considered a public health problem. Based on a  bibliographical survey, the text shows the avoidability of  deaths in cases of malignant neoplasms, HIV/AIDS, and  suicide resulting from the mitigated access to healthcare  associated with subjugations in the racist patriarchal  system. Negligence and disregard motivated by structural  racism and misogyny shape the death of Black women,  revealed by a necropolitics of late diagnoses, failures in  sensitization and prevention campaigns, lack of  receptiveness, and adequate policies for that population.  Relating such violations of the right to health with songs by Elza Soares, this study aims to bring art as an instrument  of denunciation and a revival of silenced voices.