Born in 1980, Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a master's in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of Plural Feminisms, which comprises the Plural Feminisms Space, the online platform Plural Feminisms and the editorial label Sueli Carneiro, which publishes The Book Collection Plural Feminisms. She is the author of the books Place of Speech (Jandaíra / Plural Feminisms), Who's Afraid of Black Feminism?, Short Anti-racist Guide and Letters to my Grandmother (Companhia das Letras), with translations into three languages. She is also a visiting professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) journalism department and a guest researcher at the University of Mainz (Germany). She is an immortal occupant of chair #28 of the Academy of Literature of São Paulo. Columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and the German magazine Der Spiegel, she was assistant secretary for Human Rights in São Paulo in 2016. She is a laureate of the 2019 Prince Claus Prize, awarded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and considered by the BBC as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the World. In 2020, she won the Jabuti Award, the most important in Brazilian literature in the category of Human Sciences, for A Short Anti-racist Guide. In 2021, she was the first Brazilian person in history to be honoured by the BET Awards, granted by the USA Black community. She is the loving mother of Thulane Ribeiro Alves da Silva, her greatest pride, master in Reiki and member of the Squad, a WhatsApp group with her friends Flávia Monteiro, Marília Salles and Débora Caroline.
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