Leonardo Sakamoto on why black women are so active in fighting growing misogyny.
Black women’s movements are leading the feminist resistance to Jair Bolsonaro’s dismantling of social rights.
Three centuries of enslavement and daily reaffirmation of structural racism help explain why black women are so prominent in this fight-back. So do the statistics: according to the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, the rate of homicide against black women rose by almost 30 per cent between 2007 and 2017; the rate for non-black women increased by 4.5 per cent.
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