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Thamirys Nunes is a Brazilian transgender rights activist. She is known for her story as a mother of a trans child, which is shown in her book Minha Criança Trans (lit. "My Trans Child"). She later created the non-governmental organization (NGO) Minha Criança Trans.
Her works not only showcased her activist role against the racial divide but also emphasized the experiences she faces as Afro-Brazilian woman. [5] Her poems and short stories have been included in a number of anthologies, including Axé - Antologia Contemporânea da Poesia Negra Brasileira (Axé - Anthology of Contemporary Brazilian Black ...
Her work is marked by her life experiences as an Afro-Brazilian woman, which she calls escrevivência—a portmanteau of escrita (writing) and vivência (life experience). [2] She was born into a humble family and is the second oldest of nine siblings, being the first in her household to earn a university degree.
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1918–2022, novelist, short story writer; Lourdes Teodoro (born 1946), Afro-Brazilian poet and literary critic; Marcia Theophilo (born 1941), poet, short story writer, essayist, writes in Portuguese, Italian and English; Wal Torres (born 1950), sexologist, non-fiction writer
Júlia Valentina da Silveira Lopes de Almeida (September 24, 1862 – May 30, 1934) was one of the first Brazilian women to earn acclaim and social acceptance as a writer. . In a career that spanned five decades, she wrote in a variety of literary genres; however, it is her fiction, written under the influence of the naturalists Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, that has captured the ...
Joyce Cavalccante is a Brazilian author of seven novels, plus several short stories and articles that today appear in eight anthologies. Cavalccante's writings focus on the plight of women in Brazil who live to pray, marry and die. [citation needed] She is the president of REBRA, the Brazilian Women Writers' Network.
Maria Firmina dos Reis (March 11, 1822 – November 11, 1917) was a Brazilian author. She is considered Brazil's first black female novelist. In 1859, she published her first book Úrsula, which is considered the first Brazilian abolitionist novel.
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira (c. 1732 –1796), known in history by the name Chica da Silva [1] [2] and whose romanticized version/character is also known by the spelling Xica da Silva, [2] was a Brazilian woman who became famous for becoming rich and powerful despite having been born into slavery.