Beatriz Nascimento: Brazil’s Black Feminist Revolutionary
Nyanna Williams | May 5, 2021 Beatriz Nascimento c.1980 "When I returned again to my studies, I found myself on the familiar soil of an obsolete territory. Obsolete not because this territory has ceased to exist, or has been surpassed—in truth it is continuously in flux—but because it has been reduced to a status of minority, with all that implies: the slight, the inferior, the preliminary, the impotent and the infantile. This territory is both the path already taken, and the one that lies ahead."1— Beatriz Nascimento, “For a (New) Existential and Physical Territory”, 1988 The way that we perceive history is often influenced by who has the power to tell its stories. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade, centuries of racial oppression, systems of white supremacy, and patriarchy have historically silenced…