Djamila Ribeiro


Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian Black feminist, journalist, and philosopher. She studied political philosophy at the Federal University of São Paulo where she wrote a Masters thesis on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler. She works as an editor for the weekly journal Carta Capital.
In May 2016, she was named as the Vice-Secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship Affairs in the municipal government of São Paulo and joined the administration of Mayor and future Presidential candidate Fernando Haddad.
She wrote the preface to the book Women, Race and Class by the philosopher Black feminist Angela Davis for the translation and first edition in Brazilian Portuguese. Ribeiro has collaborated with Davis on a number of occasions.
Ribeiro is also a blogger and online activist. She spoke as a representative of civil society at the Brazil Conference at Harvard University in 2018
She identifies as a member of the Candomblé community, an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition. She has written about how traditional women healers in the African community came to be portrayed as witches by Western European society.

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