When the global death toll of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic surpassed one million in late September, the United States and […]
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When the global death toll of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic surpassed one million in late September, the United States and […]
About a week after my partner Clayton was murdered in 2015, I went back to his gravesite with one of […]
The course of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown a disturbing paradox as to how we deal with the disease. The […]
In A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, Cassia Roth offers an innovative […]
My book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020), […]
You may have heard of Neymar, Brazil’s soccer darling.1 With the speed and skill to rival the all-time greats, he’s […]
In April 2015, Géssica Eduardo dos Santos — a Brazilian woman who lived in Juarezinho, a small town in the […]
On the evening of Wednesday, March 14, Marielle Franco — the thirty-eight-year-old human-rights activist, feminist, anti-racist organizer, and recently-elected city […]
In 1888, Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery in the Western hemisphere. The process of emancipation in the […]
In 1930, nineteen-year-old black (preta) Jovelina Pereira dos Santos, a live-in domestic servant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hid her […]