Introduction to the Special Issue

In March 2018, sociologist and Carioca councilwoman Marielle Franco (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade—PSOL/RJ) [Socialism and Freedom Party] was brutally murdered at the age of 38. She was a Black, lesbian woman from Complexo da Maré, a set of slums reclassified as communities, located in the northern...

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History

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