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Artist, researcher. Queerness, decoloniality, anticapitalism. She/they. 🇧🇷 in 🇩🇪 / Founding member of @DecolDesign / contact luiza at https://t.co/I0IvlTVO9P
Mar 2, 2019 12 tweets 3 min read
It's been 353 days since Marielle and Anderson, her driver, were assassinated. We still have no answers as to who ordered the killing -- but mounting evidence proves that the Bolsonaros are closely involved with the two paramilitaries wanted for her murder. Flavio (one of his sons, also an elected politician) employed in his cabinet, until recently, the mother and wife of one of the paramilitaries suspected of Marielle's murder, Adriano Nóbrega. Nóbrega is an ex member of BOPE, a special operations unit in the military police +
Feb 8, 2019 18 tweets 4 min read
so let me tell you a lil tale about a woman named Sara Winter and anti-feminism in Brazil. Warning: this thread will contain a lot of outrageous plot twists, and they're all real. Ready? Ok. About 10 years ago, the feminist started slowly growing on the Brazilian side of the internet. Through social networks (mostly Facebook at the time) people were starting to organize, create groups, exchange ideas and knowledge. It wasn't perfect, but damn it was impressive.
Jan 13, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
Earlier today i tweeted this replying to @aansari86's excellent thread on the atrocious upcoming exhibition "Broken Nature". The article mentioned that one of the commissioned pieces was from an artist "using melanin on an architectural scale". nytimes.com/2018/10/06/sty… This artist is called Neri Oxman, and according to this NYT article she's a former first lieutenant for the Israeli Air Force and daughter of 'architectural royalty in Israel'. She runs a lab at MIT researching 'material ecology'.
Jan 2, 2019 12 tweets 3 min read
Ainda pensando em como a performance da Michelle Bolsonaro fazendo discurso em Libras ontem foi um exemplo perfeito da face benevolente do autoritarismo. A mulher branca e rica que pratica atos de suposta inclusão ao mesmo tempo em que sustenta políticas opressoras e genocidas. claro, no projeto de supremacia branca (vamos dar nome aos bois?) isso não é nada novo; as mulheres brancas sempre estiveram profundamente envolvidas nisso. Mas como mtas vezes a violência praticada por mulheres brancas contra pessoas não-brancas (inclusive outras mulheres)+