Women’s stamps collection
Daniela Brasil with the Daily Rhythms Collective
2018-2023
This collection started after the brutal killing of Marielle Franco, on march 2018, following the longing for her presence – to extend all the struggles she embodied; and to contribute to the visibility of the struggles against systemic racism and violence at large. The election of Joenia Wapichana, the first indigenous woman to the Brazilian parliament, in the general elections that followed Marielle’s killing, was the second stamp, a huge victory after an immense loss.
For the occasion of the event Corpocidade 6 in Salvador da Bahia, I also included Maria Firmino, the first Brazilian female abolitionist writer, still largely unknown. With these 3 women, I stamped more than 200 bills of Brazilian Reais with their faces and put them back into circulation, as Cildo Meireles taught us how to. Since then, the collection has been growing. In my ecoversities residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, Berta Cárceres and Comandanta Ramona joined in. Now it includes Joenia Wapichana, Berta Cárceres, Mujeres Zapatistas, Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Léilia Gonzalez, Audre Lorde, Rigoberta Menchu, Juana Calfunao Paillaléf… and it should be growing …
The collection is normally presented in the format of the Empowerment Print Bar in street actions, where people can stamp postcards, small notebooks, badges available for free, or in any surface they feel like.
On Women’s Day 2022, together with Evelyn Tschernko we launched a new version to speed up the spreading of the word…. Stick It! has published two collections with voices from Abya Yala&Turtle Island, entitled “Black Feminism and Human & Earth Rights Defenders”-
The collection has been exhibited in the feminist archive in < rotor > centre for contemporary art, where visitors could make badgets with them. For the Human Rights Day celebration in the Afro-asiatisches Institut in Graz, the collection was presented together with the critical map “Who Owns the Land?” of the collective iconoclasistas, free to download here.
The project is developed in collaboration with the Afro-Asian Institute.
with the support of the
Department of Culture, StadtGraz;
LandSteiermark Kultur
Österreichische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Photo:Daniela Brasil, Nikola Milatovic, Schubidu Quartet
