BLACK WOMEN YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER
True warriors who broke important racist, sexist and discriminatory barriers, breaking paradigms that today guarantee a fairer world for all and future generations.
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FOREVER IN OUR MEMORY
Testimonials from the Cultne Collection with a range of female personalities from the black movement, in the areas of music, fashion, culture, religion and politics. An audiovisual immersion in a great legacy of ancestral wisdom.
Lélia GonzalezCultne
Lélia Gonzales
"Let's fight, comrades, so that oppression and exploitation end in this country. In order that, in addition to being a racial democracy, to be effective, this country has to be a racial democracy.” (1988)
Speech by Lélia Gonzalez in The Black March - 1988Cultne
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Beatriz Nascimento
“I always want to be ready, until the end of my life. As long as racism exists, I want to fight racism. I set out to do this when I was 20, 25 years old. Now I'm 45 years old, I'm more and more wanting to fight against racism. (1987)
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Ruth de Souza
“Imagine the blacks, for the first time at Theatro Municipal, which, until then, were just French companies and great international operas. And we were the first group of blacks to enter the Municipality. I debuted there”. (1989)
Black Divas in Cinema - 1989Cultne
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Jurema Batista
“We fought for this date to exist. At our school we learn about Princess Isabel. Getting zombies out of the basement of Brazilian history was our struggle. That slavery did not take away from the black people, the taste for freedom!” (2010)
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Zezé Motta
"The black woman's relationship with life is that of a warrior. She is oppressed as a black woman, oppressed as a woman, but we are there in the struggle and despite the oppression, we can become victorious." (1988)
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Adélia Azevedo
“For us black people, something very important is the word, orality. Today I am a storyteller, within art therapy, because I learned, inside my house, with my grandparents, with my parents, that the word is the most important”. (2016)
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Luiza Bairros
“Feminism is a much deeper thing than we even imagine. And it necessarily has to be accompanied by our awakening to a series of issues that, before, we could not see.” (1985)
8th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist EncounterCultne
Thereza SantosCultne
Thereza Santos
“In addition to being this family base, this support of the black man, the black woman is already thinking, planning and executing. It has always been an economic and moral mainstay of the struggle.” (1989)
Léa GarciaCultne
Léa Garcia
“We have a lot to conquer and fight for, that's why. It is like? Having the power in our hands, if we don't have the power in our hands, we won't achieve anything. We have to be an equal, not just the white man, withholding power and manipulating us.” (1989)
Black Divas in Cinema - 1989Cultne
Afrodai - Idalice Moreira BastosCultne
Idalice Moreira Bastos
“Even the televisions cut out. They have no interest in showing our beauty, they put it in our heads, all our lives, that black people are ugly. In addition to physical beauty, we have wonderful energy.” (1988)
Nilma LinoCultne
Nilma Lino
“Fighting for democratic resumption is also fighting for the resumption of racial equality policies, it is fighting racism”. (2018)
VIII March of the Black Women (Date)Cultne
VIII March of the Black Women
For life, rights, dignity and for a fair and anti-racist society. More black women in power! The march took place on July 31, 2022 on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
