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Djamila Ribeiro

    Djamila Ribeiro is a Brazilian feminist and scholar whose work delves into philosophy, race, and gender issues. Through her writing and online activism, she champions the voices of marginalized communities, particularly Black women, emphasizing the crucial role of digital platforms in feminist advocacy. Her analyses critically examine the intersections of race and gender, challenging dominant narratives and striving to illuminate often-overlooked perspectives. Ribeiro's intellectual contributions aim to inspire and empower, fostering a more inclusive and equitable understanding of societal structures.

    Dialogue transatlantique
    Where We Stand
    • 2021

      Dialogue transatlantique

      Perspectives de la pensée féministe noire et des diasporas africaine

      • 172 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Un dialogue entre deux femmes, philosophes, noires, l'une Brésilienne, l'autre Française d'origine congolaise. Dans ce dialogue, né d'une rencontre à Paris, ces deux intellectuelles pensent leurs expériences diasporiques de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique et interrogent leur rapport au savoir, au militantisme, aux débats qui traversent les espaces publics français et brésilien. Leurs voix, parfois éclatées, font constamment retour vers ce qui leur est commun. Leurs récits partagés de la négritude composent une mémoire dense et plurielle - une mémoire africaine diasporique. Les deux philosophes parlent de l'Afrique, du féminisme, de l'empowerment, du poids de la colonialité, et surtout de la puissance des intellectuelles noires - car, insistent-elles, l'histoire noire n'est pas seulement celle d'une lutte : c'est aussi celle de la pensée.

      Dialogue transatlantique
    • 2019

      Where We Stand

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.2(31)Add rating

      The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of "speaking place." A crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil, speaking place is the idea that everyone has a social position in the world and that what we are able to say, and how it is received by others, depends on it. Ribeiro traces the history of Black feminist thought through several centuries, examining the ways that Black women have been silenced, ignored, and punished for speaking. Building on feminist standpoint theory, and in conversation with the works of Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and others, Ribeiro invites all of us to recognize where we stand, to imagine geographies different from those we've inherited, and to speak a more humane world into being.

      Where We Stand