Djamila Ribeiro

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Djamila Ribeiro
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Djamila Ribeiro, 2016
Born
Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos

(1980-08-01) August 1, 1980 (age 41)
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
EducationFederal University of São Paulo
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos (born 1980) is a Brazilian Black feminist philosopher and journalist. She graduated in political philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo, where she also earned a master's degree on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler.[2][3][4] Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine CartaCapital, as well as a columnist for CartaCapital and Folha de S.Paulo.[5][6]

In May 2016, she was appointed São Paulo's vice-secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship Affairs, thereby joining the Fernando Haddad administration.[7]

She prefaced the Brazilian Portuguese edition of Women, Race and Class by Black feminist philosopher Angela Davis. Ribeiro and Davis have collaborated on a number of occasions.[8]

Ribeiro also works as a blogger and online activist. In 2018, she appeared as a representative of Brazil's civil society at Harvard and MIT's joint annual Brazil Conference.[9]

In her A Short Anti-racist Handbook (Port. Pequeno manual antirracista), inspired on the book How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Ribeiro calls upon white people to take responsibility and change attitudes which result in privileges and oppression.[10] Being a follower of Candomblé,[11] Ribeiro has written about how traditional women healers in Afro-descendant communities came to be portrayed as witches by Western civilisation.[12]

In July 2020, Ribeiro decided to report Twitter to Brazil's Public Prosecutor's Office on the grounds that Twitter "economically exploits racism and misogyny" and "profits from attacks on defenceless Black women".[13]

Publications[]

  • O que é lugar de fala? (2017) (What Is Locus of Speech?)
  • Quem tem medo do feminismo negro? (2018) (Who's Afraid of Black Feminism?)
  • Pequeno manual antirracista (2019) (A Short Anti-racist Handbook)[14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Interview: Brazilian Black Feminist Philosopher Djamila Ribeiro on Intersectionality and the Black Feminist Movement" (in Portuguese). Afropunk.
  2. ^ "Djamila Ribeiro, a voz da consciência negra feminina no Brasil". Vice (in Portuguese).
  3. ^ "É preciso discutir por que a mulher negra é a maior vítima de estupro no Brasil". El País (in Portuguese). July 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "20 Jornalistas Negros influentes em diversas áreas do Jornalismo" (in Portuguese). CEERT.
  5. ^ "Movimentos sociais encontram na internet o caminho para mobilizar militantes" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil.
  6. ^ "Expediente". CartaCapital (in Portuguese).
  7. ^ "Djamila Ribeiro é nomeada secretária-adjunta de Direitos Humanos de São Paulo". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese). May 18, 2016.
  8. ^ "Angela Davis: 'Quando a mulher negra se movimenta, toda a estrutura da sociedade se movimenta com ela'". El País (in Portuguese). July 28, 2017.
  9. ^ "Brazil Conference 2020". Brazil Conference 2020.
  10. ^ "Want to be anti-racist? In Brazil, there's a guide for that". France 24. December 13, 2019.
  11. ^ Piza, Renata (December 11, 2017). "Djamila Ribeiro: falar é preciso" [Djamila Ribeiro: speaking is necessary]. Vogue Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  12. ^ Ribeiro, Djamila (October 13, 2019). "Às feiticeiras, minha reverência" [To the witches, my reverence] (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  13. ^ "Djamila Ribeiro denunciará Twitter no Ministério Público por 'explorar o racismo e a misoginia'". July 27, 2020.
  14. ^ "Livros de Djamila Ribeiro". Estante Virtual (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  15. ^ "Want to be anti-racist? In Brazil, there's a guide for that". France 24. December 13, 2019. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
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