The New York TimesJan. 16, 2019 by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “It’s a new era in Brazil: Boys wear blue and girls wear pink,” our new minister of women, family and human rights, Damares Alves, said this month in a video. And she didn’t stop there: Under the new government of President Jair […]
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Brazil Sees Only Pink and Blue
Posted: 23rd janeiro 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: baby, Bolsonaro, boy, feminism, gender, gender-reveal party, girl, Hannah Gadsby, potato, prince, princess, sexism
Brazilian Women Can Learn to Yell
Posted: 20th novembro 2017 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: feminism, gender-based violence, Girl Guides, misogyny, Pirate Jenny, self-defense classes, sexism, This is Sparta!
The New York Times (Sunday Review) November 12, 2017 Leer en español by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO, Brazil — When I was 7, I joined the Brazilian Girl Guides. One of the basic laws of the guides was that a girl should be “courteous and delicate.” (These days they only emphasize the “courteous” part.) I remember […]
