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Before hashtags and viral manifestos, there were women who blazed a trail with resolute words — this column republishes their interviews for Máxima. After all, going back to the past is also a gesture towards the future.
The start of the new year brings together key authors of contemporary critical thought.
Feminism, violence, decoloniality, ecology, race, art and freedom are the themes shaping Orfeu Negro's main editorial releases for 2026, which brings together key authors of contemporary critical thought such as Françoise Vergès, Itziar Ziga and Jacques Rancière.
This analytical piece examines Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho as a pioneering educator of women whose public achievements were shadowed by private difficulties: her father’s harsh criticism of her poetry and her husband’s betrayal. Drawing on the narratives of Margarida Vila-Nova, Maria João Lopo de Carvalho and Alexandre Borges, the article reassesses how a woman operating within a patriarchal literary culture came to be framed as 'a man of genius', and what that framing reveals about gender, authority and literary history.
