With deep sorrow we bid farewell to Professor Joselina Da Silva
With deep sorrow we bid farewell to Professor Joselina Da Silva of the IV CLACSO Graduate School Beyond the Decade of Afro-descendant Peoples: The historical reparation of Afro-descendant peoples and the challenges of the anti-racist agenda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | June 30 to July 2, 2024
Teacher of all.
Academic and Afro-feminist leader from Brazil.
She was one of those who founded things.
Participant in Durban, promoter of the first meeting of black women from Latin America and the Caribbean.
She was a member of the advisory board and editorial team of the Encyclopedia of Black Women of Brazil (2007). She was second vice-secretary of the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN) (2006-2008). She coordinated the NBLAC (Brazilian, Latin American and Caribbean Center for Studies on Race Relations, Gender and Social Movements), certified by the CNPQ.
She co-wrote with Anny Ocoró Loango the chapter: «Lélia Gonzalez: transforming feminisms through the traces of the African diaspora» published in the book «Lélia Gonzalez. For an African-American feminism», coordinated by Karina A Bidaseca and Raisa Inôcencio, Buenos Aires, El Mismo Mar, 2022.
The CLACSO Working Groups Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals y Epistemologies of the SouthThe CLACSO South-South Program, the V Congress of Postcolonial Studies, the VII Conference on Postcolonial Feminism and the Network of Decolonial Feminisms of the South join in mourning your departure and reaffirm your commitment to the anti-racist struggle.
Rest in peace, sister.
We will continue the fight.
June 17 2025
CLACSO Working Groups
Afro-descendants and counter-Gehemenic proposals
Epistemologies of the South
This statement expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Groups and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
