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NEWS > WORLD > BRAZILIAN GRAFFITI ARTIST PUSHES GENDER EQUALITY
posted Mar 10, 2017, 7:12 AM by PHS Warrior Beat [ updated Mar 10, 2017, 7:15 AM ]
By: Rebeka Kline Panmela Castro, also known as Anarkia Boladona, is a 36 year old from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is known in Brazil for her large graffiti arts covering the street walls. In a country known for domestic abuse, and masculine graffiti, Castro takes her experience with abuse and uses her background in art to create beautiful, feminine pieces pushing gender equality. According to CNN World news, 88.5% of women have experienced sexual violence, every 11 minutes a women in Brazil is sexually assaulted, and every day, 15 women are murdered. This isn’t American feminism where women fight to be better than men, this is South American feminish where women fight to be equal and for their lives. Well what has Brazil done about these statistics? In the 1983 case of da Penha, Maria da Penha’s husband tried to kill her twice. He shot her in her sleep and tried to electrocute her while she was in the shower. After the case, her husband was sentenced with eight years in prison but only had to serve a fraction of it. In the first five years of the new de Penha law, 331,000 people were persecuted. Despite working with males in the graffiti industry and having them as protection, Castro says that she is still harassed by “male counterparts” sometimes. "One of the reasons I was accepted was because I was good at what I did internationally renowned ... They were forced to accept me." Panmela said Castro started a group in 2010 called Rede Nami, where she has workshops where she educates people about domestic violence and lets them create a mural. One workshop is for teens aged 1419, and another is for women of all ages. Castro talks about why she allows them to create graffiti in their learning by saying; "You can't really entice people to just talk about their cases," Castro says. "The graffiti is what makes them want to share. If it was just conversation, people wouldn't come." Luckily, Castro says that the teenagers she teaches at her workshops are from a more open generation and more willing to learning about respecting women. Edited by: BT Uploaded on: 03/10/2017 Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/05/arts/herpanmelacastro/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panmela_Castro
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