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By Nathan M. Walters, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In Portuguese the words “rua” (street) and “arte” (art) are both feminine, yet in the past women were all but absent from the street art movement in Rio (http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rioentertainment/galeria-movimento-street-artinside/). This is quickly changing, thanks in large part to one of Rio’s graffiti pioneers (http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rioentertainment/joana-cesar-multilayered-art-inrio/), Panmela Castro (aka Anarkia Boladona). Graffiti and street art have long served as media for societies’ oppressed to deliver their message of empowerment. The early incarnations of the modern graffiti tradition were borne out of the disenfranchised communities in the Bronx in the late Seventies. Pichação, the controversial graffiti movement originating in São Paulo, likewise,