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Central do Brasil (1998), dir. Walter Salles
I'M STILL HERE / AINDA ESTOU AQUI (2024) – dir. Walter Salles — When did you bury him? What do you mean? The day you realized he wasn't coming back? I think it was when I saw mom donating his clothes. About a year and a half later. What about you? I think it was when we left Rio. Seeing the house all empty. That soon?
Kamau Brathwaite in conversation with Edward Baugh as a part of the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute at the University of Miami.
Speaking on comparative literature in the Caribbean, Brathwaite says, "It is necessary that we do this because the Caribbean although artificially divided into English-speaking, French-speaking, Dutch-speaking, Spanish-speaking, is really part of a whole underground continent of thought and feeling and history."
Commenting on the fragmentation of the region he remarks, "In the days of the Caribs, you could take a canoe and travel easily from St. Lucia to Martinique. Now with the arrival of Europe, despite Europe's technology, it is almost impossible to move from St. Lucia to Martinique, and let me explain that they are within hailing distance from each other."
Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously extended the Maria da Penha Law's protection to same-sex couples and trans women.
In a virtual plenary session on Friday (Feb. 21), the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Brazilian Association of HomoTransAffective Families (ABRAFH), which argued that the National Congress has failed to legislate on the matter.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur, stated that the lack of a rule extending the Maria da Penha Law's protection “could create a gap in safeguarding victims and punishing domestic violence.”
In his vote, Moraes stated that “since the Maria da Penha Law was created to protect women from domestic violence—recognizing their cultural subordination in society—it can also be applied to male same-sex couples when contextual factors place the male victim in a subordinate position within the relationship.”
Justice Moraes stated that "gender identity, though social, is a fundamental aspect of personality, encompassing the right to identity, intimacy, privacy, freedom, and equal treatment, all of which are safeguarded by the overarching principle of human dignity."
