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Conversation with two black Brazilian feminists moderated by Djamila Ribeiro about perspectives from the social place of a quilombola woman, as well as reflections on colorism by a light skin intellectual.

Alessandra Devulsky is actively engaged in various social movements in Brazil and Canada, particularly in the areas of social and climate justice, as well as racial and gender equality.

She is a licensed lawyer in Brazil, holding a doctorate in economic and financial law, as well as a master's degree in political and economic law. In Montreal, she serves as an advisor to the Bureau du respect de la personne at the Université de Montréal, while also lecturing in the legal sciences department at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Additionally, she sits on the boards of the Institut de recherche et d'informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) and the Maison Internationale de la Rive-Sud (MIRS).In Brazil, Alessandra co-founded and serves as the legal director of the Luis Gama Institute, an organization dedicated to providing free legal aid to individuals who have experienced racial discrimination in the workplace.

She is also an accomplished author, with several published articles and books, including her most recent work, Colorismo, released in Brazil in 2021, and its French edition, Colorisme, launched in 2023.

In 2024, she was elected to a three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee as an expert.

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Selma dos Santos Dealdina is a quilombola woman from Angelim III, in the Sapê do Norte Territory, Espírito Santo. She is part of several civil society organizations committed to the quilombola struggle and the broader fight against racism, such as the Black Coalition for Rights, the State Coordination of Quilombola Communities of Espírito Santo (Zacimba Gaba), and the Women's Collective of the National Coordination of Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (Conaq), where she currently serves as executive secretary. She is the organizer of the book Quilombola Women, Territories of Black Feminine Resistance, recently published by Jandaíra under the Sueli Carneiro imprint.