Like the ocean
- Renata Pelegrini
- Feb 23, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 24, 2024
Just like the ocean, Djamila Ribeiro is a force of nature that unites ancestry and energy of transformation. Born in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo, where her father was a dockworker, the philosopher, writer, and activist in defense of the Afro-descendant population, Djamila Ribeiro is the first black woman, since May 2022, to occupy a chair at the Academia Paulista de Letras (1) . In her book, Letters to my grandmother (2) , she talks about healing through the feminine, and addresses the importance of rebuilding affections by breaking practices and cycles of violence. Through this personal story, she celebrates the place of successful women in each of our lives. She believes that taking knowledge forward, and developing so many others, is a way of humanizing our history; a complexity that she extends to discuss our society. For Djamila, the issues of social movements and environmental protection are linked, and this is fundamental to mobilizing actions, she explains (3) . Contemplated in 2019 by the French government's “Personality of Tomorrow” program, Djamila Ribeiro has also received other illustrious international recognitions, and had her books published in other languages. An influential presence in the female universe, it is worth following Djamila Ribeiro (4) and reflecting on her statements (5).
text originally published in the 'Liga das Mulheres pelo Oceano' newsletter _ September 2022
(5). TEDx São Paulo _ Nov 2016_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEdZQUmdbc
Roda Viva TV Cultura _ Nov 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn1AtnzTql8
Mano Brown Podcast _ July 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE4fWGUDWiI
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