Collective health, gender and sexuality: praxis for reproductive, erotic and gender justice

Abstract

This essay revisits aspects of the historical process of co-constitution in the field of collective health and gender and sexuality studies in Brazil. It discusses how the image objective of human rights, equity, valuing diversity, and social justice are seminal to them. It reflects on how the production of knowledge, political action, and the development of new practices in the theoretical-political field of gender and sexuality - particularly with the expansion of intersectional and decolonial perspectives - contribute to developing collective health as a field of emancipatory practice. In this field, new possibilities of becoming a subject, weaving collectivities, and living in common are experimented with; it also ventures into the production of foundations and experiments that contribute to the utopian horizon of a post-liberal and decolonial justice that encompasses the body, reproduction, health, and pleasures.