Two women join thousands of black women from across Brazil in a march to protest the violence and discrimination they say they suffer, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.
In the midst of a historic political, social, and economic crisis, Brazilian women are building historic feminist solidarity to fight for their rights and demand a more just and inclusive society. The country's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, is facing impeachment and has been suspended from her position for 180 days. Since Michel Temer’s interim all-white and all-male government has assumed power, the World Economic Forum has calculated that the country will fall from its 2015 ranking of 85th in the WEF gender equality index to number 107.
When she was president, Dilma Rousseff’s administration did not always generate solidarity between feminists. There was often a marked line between those who tried to work with her government on developing better public policies and those who rejected her administration, citing the lack of advances in reproductive rights, in the political sphere and in education during her term.
