TATIANE PEREIRA SAID: "I’m tired of violence against black women".

I’m tired of seeing the statistics and the plethora of situations of violence against women, some of them subtle, others that are overtly visible. We live in a culture that legitimizes racism as much as the structure of machismo. And it’s through these processes that violence against women consolidates itself in a culture on which society feeds itself daily, sometimes to inflate masculine egos and distorted feminizations, in others to sustain hierarchic positions between the genders in the most magnified way possible. There’s no use fighting for a society more equal in terms of racial, religious, or class perspectives if we aren’t able to understand gender as a category sometimes used to incite inequalities, besides privileging relations of power: “Those who can, order, those with judgement, obey.” My intervention serves to open eyes and to neither enter into a pact with or naturalize this violence; it shouldn’t be normal for a woman to suffer in this way, we shouldn’t be complicit in this. Because of this, it’s necessary to “deconstruct” and/or “unmake gender” through specific demands and through a culture that orients its perspective in the world: Mine is African, and instead of burying it, this perspective allows me to have an open dialogue with people, with their demands, with the world and with the things that are in it. Greetings umojá! [Swahili: unity]