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Museu de Favela’s ‘Women Warriors’ Exhibition Seeks Support to Tour Brazil

By Aldair Arriola-Gomez • November 30, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Museu de Favela (MUF), a non-profit territorial museum founded in 2008 by community leaders in Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho in Rio’s South Zone, is promoting a crowdfunding campaign to tour their Mulheres Guerreiras (Women Warriors) […]

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A Feminist Spring? Women and Women’s Issues on the March in Brazil

By Cerianne Robertson • November 18, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Women in Brazil are on the march. That’s true in a literal sense, as women put boots-on-the-ground today in Brasília for the annual national Black Women’s March, and in recent weeks in […]

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The Absence of Favelas in Rio’s 450th Anniversary Celebrations

By Mônica Francisco • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • September 24, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese by Mônica Francisco* published in Jornal do Brasil click here. All the changes undergone in recent years, with emphasis on the mega-events the country is hosting […]

Mother and daughter in Esperança.
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The Inspiring Story of Self-, Collectively-, Women-Built Public Housing in Rio: The Esperança Condominium is Ready

By Camila Nobrega • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • July 9, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese by Camila Nobrega, published in Canal Ibase, click here.  In the doorway of one of the houses under construction in the Condomínio Esperança (Hope Condominium)—built by the housing […]

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Cantagalo Celebrates Community’s ‘Women Warriors’ [SLIDESHOW]

By Ruth Faulkner • March 20, 2015

Cantagalo residents took to the streets with a procession celebrating the women of the favela on the eve of International Women’s Day, March 7. The event started in the Museu de Favela (MUF), a community organization founded […]

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