Pretinhas Readers
Possible ways to claim freedom through literature
The Pretinhas Leitoras Project is a loving, crafty and purposeful invention by the twin sisters Helena Ferreira and Duda Ferreira.
Conceived in 2015 as a welcoming space and care strategy initially aimed at the community of Morro da Providência, Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro, where they were created.
By the lines of black literature, the girls recognized the desire to be, play and live free by provoking them to learn more about local stories, told by the elderly and oldest residents of the region and since 2018, it has gathered thousands of children and adolescents in its literary circles, launched the book Fa-vê-las with the participation of one hundred young authors and authors, in 2021 and commands the Meeting with the Letrinhas, in TV Globo.
Why Pretinhas Leitores?
Duda and Helena Ferreira are known as the creators of the Pretinhas Leitoras Project. Affectionately nicknamed by her mother, Elen Ferreira and her grandmother, Eva Soares, black girls, fell in love with reading from a very early age.
Twin sisters, born in Morro da Providência, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, idealized the project based on conversations between children and their guardians. In common, the desire to know the stories of the elderly and the improvement of the territory in which they lived.
Whether through debates on the Youtube channel, Instagram Facebook about the books they read or in reading circles they promote to bring together more children, young people and storytellers, the girls are dedicated to building an Afro-referenced education.
The two talk to Poliana Abrita about the initiative, dreams for the future and find common ground with the story of another great author: Maria Carolina de Jesus.
Projects and Achievements
Pretinhas Leitoras acts through education, culture and the protagonism of female and black children and youth as a guide for the good life
Education
The educational initiative Pretinhas Leitoras, acts as a promoter of critical racial literacy among peers, aimed at consolidating pluriversal teachings through Afro-referenced and indigenous literature
Childhood, female and black protagonism
Learn more about the creators and promoters of the initiative: Duda, Helena and Elisa Ferreira
Cultura
The cultural field is a great enabler of the activities developed by the Pretinhas Leitoras initiative. Through the book "fa-vê-las", the project develops a continuum of historical records of Brazilian childhoods and adolescences.
literacy
racial
critic
Talking about what we were, are and what we want to be is deeply linked to the knowledge of the society we are part of.
For a long time, black people were invisible from the political, social, cultural and educational scene of our country.
This is due to a need to structure the society in which we live through domination and power .
This way of imposing life is contested by people excluded from spaces of power and representation.
Getting to know the freedom and well-being strategies of people and communities that resist the erasure of their histories and recognizing pluriversal possibilities of thinking about life, allows children and adults to point out new paths that ensure everyone people the inalienable right to a full and dignified life.
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