Djamila Ribeiro

Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos (born 1980) is a Brazilian Black feminist, journalist, and philosopher. She studied political philosophy at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) where she wrote a Masters thesis on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler.[2][3][4] She works as an editor for the weekly journal Carta Capital.[5]

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

(1980-08-01) August 1, 1980
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
EducationFederal University of São Paulo
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Main interests
Notable ideas

In May 2016, she was named as the Vice-Secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship Affairs in the municipal government of São Paulo and joined the administration of Mayor and future Presidential candidate Fernando Haddad.[6]

She wrote the preface to the book Women, Race, and Class by the philosopher Black feminist Angela Davis for the translation and first edition in Brazilian Portuguese. Ribeiro has collaborated with Davis on a number of occasions.[7]

Ribeiro is also a blogger and online activist. She spoke as a representative of civil society at the Brazil Conference at Harvard University in 2018[8]

She identifies as a member of the Candomblé community, an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition.[9] She has written about how traditional women healers in the African community came to be portrayed as witches by Western European society.[10]

Publications
  • O que é lugar de fala? (2017) (What is the standpoint of speech?)
  • Quem tem medo do feminismo negro? (2018) (Who's afraid of Black Feminism?)
  • Pequeno manual antirracista (2019) (A Little Anti-racist Handbook.)[11][12]

References
  1. "Interview: Brazilian Black Feminist Philosopher Djamila Ribeiro on Intersectionality and the Black Feminist Movement". Afropunk (in Portuguese).
  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). 2016-07-23.
  4. "20 Jornalistas Negros influentes em diversas áreas do Jornalismo". CEERT (in Portuguese).
  5. "Movimentos sociais encontram na internet o caminho para mobilizar militantes". Agencia Brasil (in Portuguese).
  6. "Djamila Ribeiro é nomeada secretária-adjunta de Direitos Humanos de São Paulo". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese). 2016-05-18.
  7. "Angela Davis: "Quando a mulher negra se movimenta, toda a estrutura da sociedade se movimenta com ela"". EL PAÍS (in Portuguese). 2017-07-28.
  8. "Brazil Conference 2018, Harvard University".
  9. Piza, Renata (11 December 2017). "Djamila Ribeiro: falar é preciso" [Djamila Ribeiro: speaking is necessary] (in Portuguese). Vogue Globo. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  10. Ribeiro, Djamila (13 October 2019). "Às feiticeiras, minha reverência" [To the witches, my reverence] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  11. "Livros de Djamila Ribeiro". Estante Virtual (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  12. "Want to be anti-racist? In Brazil, there's a guide for that". France 24. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
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