Reproductive healthcare is basically nonexistent if you are poor, and if you are poor and Black. Activist Daniele Duarte is fighting to dismantle the systemic racism in Brazil Fundamental_Doc
was a 38-year-old Black, queer city councillor as well as an outspoken anti-racism and pro-choice activist before being shot and killed in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. Many called Franco's murder a targeted hate crime, and her death sparked protests and cries from activists like Duarte and Xavier for Brazil to do something about its societal treatment of Black women. “Black women have low social representation,” Xavier says in the film.
Xavier and Duarte are just two of many Black women standing up to systemic patriarchal racism that permeates through Brazil. Their stories are told ina series of short films by YouTube Originals and Global Fund for Women, that speaks directly to the women around the world leading movements against governmental threats of conservatism and repression. As a passionate protester says in the film: “Black lives and women’s lives matter here as well as anywhere in the world.
To learn more about one of the organizations combating gender inequality and supporting women activists in Brazil and around the world, visit
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