YASMIN MORAIS
BRAZIL, 21
Project: Vulva Negra Project
Focus Area: Digital Media & Gender Equity
Yasmin is a Brazilian writer, actress, student of Journalism at the Federal University of Bahia, social activist and member of the Research Center in Discourse Analysis and Media of UFBA (CEPAD).
In 2018, Yasmin’s poems were published in the literary anthology “Tributo aos Orixás,” and she produced an interview for the magazine EmPODERe, which later had its catalog added to the Library of Congress in Washington DC. In the same year, Yasmin founded the Vulva Negra project, the first materialist and anti-racist feminist project in Brazil.
In 2019, Yasmin was invited to join the photographic and literary anthology “Profundanças 03,” and was awarded first place in the Malê Literature Award in the Short Story / Chronicle category. In 2020, Yasmin was invited to participate in the collection "Narrativas Negras e Insubmissas". She was also one of the winners of the First Neusa Maria Journalism Award.
Yasmin founded the Vulva Negra Project, a feminist and anti-racist movement aimed at sharing knowledge about ethnicracial and gender issues in a free and accessible way. The Vulva Negra project maintains alliances with several other projects in Latin America and the United Kingdom. Through this work, countless Brazilians are encouraged to mobilize communities through educational events and digital lectures.
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