Violence against women has become a kind of continuous pandemic. Forcing them to give birth to their rapist's child seems diabolical to me

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Violence against women has become a kind of continuous pandemic. Forcing them to give birth to their rapist's child seems diabolical to me

INTERVIEW || In 'Travessias', a book published by Editorial Caminho, chronicles by Djamila Ribeiro written during a politically and socially turbulent period are brought together. She is one of the leading voices of contemporary black feminism in Brazil. 'There is a real risk of turning survival into destiny. When we romanticise resistance, we run the risk of naturalising violence'. Speaking to CNN Portugal, the Brazilian thinker reflects on colonial relations on both sides of the Atlantic. 'Portugal and Brazil do not resolve their ghosts. The decolonisation of thought is an unfinished process and very far from being resolved'. And on the need for Brazil, in a transforming Latin America, to 'relearn how to look to the side': a new generation of the Bolsonaro family may yet prove that progressive waves are, after all, 'ripples' that 'come and go'

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