Djamila Ribeiro

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.[1][2][3] Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine CartaCapital, as well as a columnist for CartaCapital and Folha de S.Paulo.[4][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 appointed São Paulo's vice-secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship Affairs, thereby joining the Fernando Haddad administration.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9] Being a follower of Candomblé,[10] Ribeiro has written about how traditional women healers in Afro-descendant communities came to be portrayed as witches by Western civilisation.[11]

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".[12]

Awards and honors

In 2019, Djamila received the Prince Claus Award in the Philosophy category, offered by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which recognized her activist struggle. In the same year, she was chosen as “Personality of Tomorrow” by the French government, and also was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 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. "Djamila Ribeiro, a voz da consciência negra feminina no Brasil". Vice (in Portuguese).
  2. "É preciso discutir por que a mulher negra é a maior vítima de estupro no Brasil". El País (in Portuguese). 23 July 2016.
  3. "20 Jornalistas Negros influentes em diversas áreas do Jornalismo" (in Portuguese). CEERT.
  4. "Movimentos sociais encontram na internet o caminho para mobilizar militantes" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil. 18 January 2016.
  5. "Expediente". CartaCapital (in Portuguese).
  6. "Djamila Ribeiro é nomeada secretária-adjunta de Direitos Humanos de São Paulo". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese). 18 May 2016.
  7. "Angela Davis: 'Quando a mulher negra se movimenta, toda a estrutura da sociedade se movimenta com ela'". El País (in Portuguese). 28 July 2017.
  8. "Brazil Conference 2020". Brazil Conference 2020.
  9. "Want to be anti-racist? In Brazil, there's a guide for that". France 24. 13 December 2019.
  10. Piza, Renata (11 December 2017). "Djamila Ribeiro: falar é preciso" [Djamila Ribeiro: speaking is necessary]. Vogue Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  11. Ribeiro, Djamila (13 October 2019). "Às feiticeiras, minha reverência" [To the witches, my reverence] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  12. "Djamila Ribeiro denunciará Twitter no Ministério Público por 'explorar o racismo e a misoginia'". 27 July 2020.
  13. "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  14. "Livros de Djamila Ribeiro". Estante Virtual (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  15. "Want to be anti-racist? In Brazil, there's a guide for that". France 24. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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