French researcher visits the headquarters of ELAS+ and praises the strengthening of feminist movements in Brazil

On a visit to Brazil to participate in lectures on neoliberalism and the sexual division of labor, French professor Jules Falquet was at the headquarters of ELAS+ in Rio de Janeiro. A feminist and member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Paris 8, she followed the process of creation of the organization and said she was impressed with the results achieved in these 22 years of the fund's trajectory. She also highlighted the strengthening of the black and indigenous feminist movements, believing that powerful transformations are being built.

"The development of indigenous people and black women as intellectuals is important. Not only political leadership, but it also has to do with access to university and the issue of quotas. This helps to make profound changes and the results are only beginning to be produced. We will still see much more", celebrated the professor. She also cited the appointments of women to head the newly created Ministries of Indigenous Peoples and Racial Equality as a result of this strengthening. 

For more than 30 years, Jules Falquet has been conducting research on the role of women in various fields of activity, with analyses made from a decolonial perspective and dedicated to investigating the imbrications of gender, race and class.

In addition to France, Latin America and the Caribbean are part of Jules' study objects, especially Mexico and Brazil. Her first visit to our country was in 1998, to see first-hand the work of women in the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST).

In Brazil to participate in activities at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), the professor revealed that when she returns to France she will carry books on the Brazilian process of slavery - the subject of new research she is developing.