The Centro de Preservação Cultural da USP/ Casa de Dona Yayá receives Amelinha Teles next Wednesday, June 14. The author will talk about the book Feminismos: Ações e Histórias de Mulheres, recently released by the publisher Alameda.
Amelinha is a feminist political activist, founder and honorary president of the União de Mulheres de São Paulo and founder of “Yayartes Bloco Carnavalesco Casa de Dona Yayá”, which takes to the streets of Bixiga to promote women’s rights.
Political action
Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles joined the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) as a youth in 1960, influenced by her father. In 1964 she and her younger sister Criméia were detained for two nights on charges of subversion after the coup in the Barro Preto Barracks in Belo Horizonte.
In 1968 the sisters, who had been living underground since 1965, joined the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) and joined the armed struggle as a form of political resistance. Amelinha was arrested for the second time in 1972. In 10 months of imprisonment, she passed through DOI-Codi, Deops, Presídio do Hipódromo and Casa do Egresso.
After her release, she returned to political activism, working in the feminist movement and in the search for the political dead and disappeared.
She is currently the coordinator of the Projeto Promotoras Legais Populares and a member of the Comissão de Familiares de Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos. She was an advisor to the Comissão da Verdade do Estado de São Paulo – Rubens Paiva and the Comissão da Memória e da Verdade da Prefeitura de São Paulo.
She was among the 52 Brazilian women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the collective proposal 1,000 women.
Service
Conversation with the author: Amelinha Teles
Face-to-face activity with free admission
Date and time | 6/14/2023, Wednesday, at 7:00 pm
Location | Centro de Preservação Cultural da USP/Casa de Dona Yayá
Address | Rua Major Diogo, 353, Bela Vista, São Paulo
Translated by: Lara Yoshime Shizuko Fukushima