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Brazil

Can a Society Run by Women Still Be a Dystopia?

Girls of Color in Dystopia post by Victoria Law on May 9, 2013 - 9:36am; tagged Brazil, dystopian, girls of color, matriarchy, Summer Prince, women of color, YA fiction.

The summer prince cover: a girl of color has a computer arm

Continuing along this guest blog series' theme of class, caste and slavery, let's look at a city run by women of color in Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince.

The book's society, seen through the eyes of young main character June Canto, is a clear critique of class and race dynamics that exist today. As in our real world culture today, the people at the top of The Summer Prince's society refuse to recognize the oppression that exists their literally pyramid-shaped city.

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BitchTapes: Keepin' it Tropicál(ia)

Music post by Emilly Prado on October 12, 2012 - 10:41am; tagged BitchTapes, Brazil.
This week on BitchTapes, we’re taking a trip back to 1968 to visit the country of Brazil and the glory that is tropicália.

Keepin' it Tropical(ia) from BitchTapes on 8tracks Radio.

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On the Map: Brazilian Feminists Get Played by a Naughty Blonde

TV post by Mandy Van Deven on March 3, 2010 - 11:21am; tagged advertisement, Bem Loura, Brazil, commercial, Devassa, Grupo Schincariol, Paris Hilton.

American beer commercials may be able to overtly portray women as sexual objects, but as brewer Grupo Schincariol found out yesterday, doing so in Brazil can get your ad banned.

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