Group in Defense of Sexual Affective Diversity (DIVAS/CE)

Divas’s mission is to contribute, from a lesbian-feminist perspective, to the protection, promotion, information, mobilization, organization, representation and defense of political and sexual-affective emancipation of lesbian and bisexual women.

The organization conducts workshops for lesbian and bisexual women from outlying areas; systematizes methodology; offers lectures, courses and interviews about compulsory heterosexuality and social and institutional lesbophobia/homophobia; monitors cases of lesbophobia; and participates in spaces of social monitoring and influence on public policies, among other activities.

Project

The Brazil Fund-supported project will provide lesbians and bisexuals with theoretic-political and technical resources to deconstruct compulsory heterosexuality and, therefore, institutional lesbophobia/homophobia in the field of health.

Alongside the workshops, based on a lesbian-feminist methodology and designed for lesbian and bisexual women to recognize themselves as political subjects and citizens when accessing health services, a survey will be carried out among health professionals on sexual health of lesbian and bisexual women.

The qualitative research with gynecologists and nurses will try to identify to what extent the principles of the Public Health System – universality, integrality and equity – materialize when users break heterosexuality as a rule in health.

A report in PDF format with the analysis of the data will be posted on the group’s blog and sent to the lists of lesbians and bisexuals.