Women in Chile, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere know: Stopping violence against women starts with politics and power. The New York TimesJan. 29, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — During the jury selection process for Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial this month, dozens of women gathered outside a Manhattan courthouse to perform […]
Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
A Feminist Performance Goes Global
Posted: 30th janeiro 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: abortion, Brazil, Chile, feminism, Global Gender Gap Report, Latin America, patriarchy, political power, Rita Segato, sexual abuse, Turkey, Un violador en tu camino
An Epidemic of Obstetric Violence
Posted: 13th março 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: abuse, Adelir de Goes, autonomy, C-section, cesarean section, CFM, childbirth, Cremerj, episiotomy, feminism, husband stitch, labor, Latin America, mistreatment, obstetric violence, obstetrics, patriarchy, pregnancy, women, World Health Organization
How the region became home to an epidemic of obstetric violence.
Brazil Sees Only Pink and Blue
Posted: 23rd janeiro 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: baby, Bolsonaro, boy, feminism, gender, gender-reveal party, girl, Hannah Gadsby, potato, prince, princess, sexism
The New York TimesJan. 16, 2019 by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “It’s a new era in Brazil: Boys wear blue and girls wear pink,” our new minister of women, family and human rights, Damares Alves, said this month in a video. And she didn’t stop there: Under the new government of President Jair […]
Brazilian Women Can Learn to Yell
Posted: 20th novembro 2017 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: feminism, gender-based violence, Girl Guides, misogyny, Pirate Jenny, self-defense classes, sexism, This is Sparta!
The New York Times (Sunday Review) November 12, 2017 Leer en español by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO, Brazil — When I was 7, I joined the Brazilian Girl Guides. One of the basic laws of the guides was that a girl should be “courteous and delicate.” (These days they only emphasize the “courteous” part.) I remember […]
Life as a Brazilian woman
Posted: 25th abril 2014 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Brazil, feminism, misogynism, The Simpsons
The International New York Times April 24th, 2014 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Can a misogynistic country have a female president? Brazil proves that the answer is yes. More than three years into the administration of President Dilma Rousseff, not much has changed for Brazilian women. Feminism is still often […]
