Black woman with big pink curly hair. She wears prescription glasses with dark, diamond-shaped lenses, red lipstick, a cream blouse with a high collar and a white jacket with gray details. She is standing in profile and holding a microphone to her mouth.
Ashoka Fellow od 2023 roku   |   Brazil

Jaqueline Fernandes

Instituto Afrolatinas
Through the Instituto Afrolatinas, Jaqueline is challenging the racism and misogyny embedded in the cultural production sector by enabling Black women to take up powerful positions and eliminate the…
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Opis działań Jaqueline Fernandes był przygotowany, kiedy Jaqueline Fernandes został_a wybrany_a jako Ashoka Fellow w 2023 roku.

Wprowadzenie

Through the Instituto Afrolatinas, Jaqueline is challenging the racism and misogyny embedded in the cultural production sector by enabling Black women to take up powerful positions and eliminate the inequitable premises in the culture marketplace.

Nowy pomysł

Jaqueline works against racism and sexism by combining the usual solutions of awareness-raising, power analysis, and cultural heritage affirmation with systemic solutions such as open learning, professional apprenticeships, the creation of fair labor standards, and public policy reform in a newCzytaj dalej

Problem

Historically in Brazil, black women have benefited the least in all areas of public policy, from health, education, income, employment and housing to culture and leisure. These are clear remnants of slavery, racism and misogyny, issues deeply rooted in the history of Brazil's formation. It is theCzytaj dalej

Strategia

For Jaqueline, culture is both a means and an end to combating racial and gender discrimination. That's why, through the Afrolatinas Institute, she works primarily on three elements needed to combat racism and sexism in the cultural sector: (1) strengthening black identities; (2) politicalCzytaj dalej

Osoba

Jaqueline's entrepreneurial profile from childhood reflects the battles that one has to fight and win to express an Afro-Latina identity in a society that systematically discriminates against it. Daughter of a domestic worker and an absent father, Jaqueline grew up on the outskirts of Brasília, inCzytaj dalej