Suplicy, who is now 73, served in Brazilian politics for years. But even before her political career, Suplicy brought discussions of important issues straight to Brazilian homes through a television show called TV Mulher, during which Suplicy gave sex advice to female viewers in a political era of dictatorship.

Brazilian author PJ Pereira tells the Fbomb about how his best-selling trilogy of books about the Orishas, gods that are part of the indigenous Yorubá tradition, are helping the belief system be re-examined in Brazilian culture.

An average of more than 2500 people were murdered per year between 2008 and 2011 in Juarez, and female residents of the city have particularly been the targets of femicide, or killing women because of their gender. Yet experts estimate that only one out of every four cases of murdered women in Juarez are even investigated by authorities, and criminal charges were only filed in 2 percent of those cases.

By 17 years old, Brazilian swimmer Joanna Maranhão had already broken her country’s record by taking fifth place in the 400 meters at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Four years later, memories of the sexual abuse Maranhão suffered at nine years old at the hands of a former swim coach had come back to haunt her.

Kunumí MC is a teenage rapper calling attention to the struggles Indigenous people face in Brazil.

First Match (2018), the first feature film by writer-director Olivia Newman, tells the story of Monique a girl who competes on an all-boys wrestling team while simultaneously juggling the foster care system, school, and getting back in touch with her absent father.

MC Soffia started to rap when she was only six years old. By 11, her name was well known in her native Brazil, and by 13, the artist was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women of 2017.

Medeiros is the supervisor of the wrestling program at São Paulo’s Training and Research Olympic Center (Centro Olímpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa or COTP) in Brazil. She is also the first African-Brazilian woman to serve in this role.