Black feminism and intersectionality: hyphenated contributions for an analysis of the public policy of assisted reproduction in Cuba

Abstract

In this text we analyze the role of the Cuban State in relation to the public policy of reproductive health. For that we take as a basis epistemological reflections of black feminist thought in dialogue with other critical approaches. Under these references we discuss some findings of a doctoral research previously carried out on this topic. We find that both the statements exposed in normative documents, the administrative processes and various institutional mechanisms associated with reproductive health, recreate colonial logics of gender, “race” and kinship that inscribe the projects of gestation and parenthood in a matrix of domination marked by reproductive racism and hegemonic heterosexuality, limiting the possibilities that such a policy becomes a reproductive justice project.