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.[2][3][4] Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine Carta Capital, as well as a columnist for Carta Capital and Folha de S.Paulo.[5][6]

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.[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]

Controversies

In 2020, during a broadcast on YouTube with Brazilian federal deputy Marcelo Freixo, Djamila referred to fellow country activist Letícia Parks with the term "clarinha de turbante" ("whitish woman wearing turban"), reacting to criticisms about her participation in advertising by the app transport company 99, while app transport companies workers protests were taking place for improvements in working conditions and pay. The fact was mentioned by journalist Vera Magalhães in the interview program Roda Viva (TV Cultura) aired on November 9, 2020, where Djamila avoided commenting on the episode, but ended up using expressions like "moreninhos" and "mulatinhos" ("little brown" and "little mulatos") to qualify people who would not be black in her own conception.[14]

In response, Letícia used her social networks to protest and started a petition requesting a right to reply on the same program, arguing that Djamila questioned her racial identity, "giving herself the right to define who is black and who is not".[15]

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)[16][17]

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. "Expediente*".
  7. "Djamila Ribeiro é nomeada secretária-adjunta de Direitos Humanos de São Paulo". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese). 2016-05-18.
  8. "Angela Davis: "Quando a mulher negra se movimenta, toda a estrutura da sociedade se movimenta com ela"". EL PAÍS (in Portuguese). 2017-07-28.
  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 (11 December 2017). "Djamila Ribeiro: falar é preciso" [Djamila Ribeiro: speaking is necessary] (in Portuguese). Vogue Globo. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  12. Ribeiro, Djamila (13 October 2019). "Às feiticeiras, minha reverência" [To the witches, my reverence] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  13. "Djamila Ribeiro denunciará Twitter no Ministério Público por 'explorar o racismo e a misoginia'". July 27, 2020.
  14. Ana Cláudia Laurindo (6 August 2020). "Menos Djamila e Freixo e muito mais Letícia Parks" (in Portuguese). Repórter Nordeste. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  15. Letícia Parks (10 November 2020). "Letícia Parks: "Parece que a Djamila se atribuiu o direito de decidir quem é negro"" (in Portuguese). Socialist Morena. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  16. "Livros de Djamila Ribeiro". Estante Virtual (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  17. "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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