Anthropology Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Sou historiadora e antropóloga, leciono no Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Pesquiso arte e cultura produzidas em favelas, periferias e bairros populares do Rio de Janeiro. Sou ativista cultura e de Direitos Humanos.
Sex, drugs and feminism: for Brazil's female funk singers, the personal is political
May 12, 2017 10:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
At first sight, there is seemingly nothing feminist about Carioca funk, the electronic dance music coming out of Rio de Janeiros poor favelas. Nearly all the songs sung by women are of the sexually explicit, sometimes...
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