Digital Impoliteness
DIGITAL IMPOLITINESS
Actions
Interviews and open classes that help disseminate the research carried out by the Project to the public.
In media
→ The malaise in the culture of motherhood 🔗
The text discusses how the decline in birth rates in Brazil reflects the challenges and social pressures surrounding motherhood, especially for Black women. Rather than "instinct," motherhood is marked by historical pressures, racism, and inequality.
→ (Mis)information signs and the harm reduction policy of unsafe abortion 🔗
The text discusses the mandatory implementation of abortion information signs, which warn of risks such as infertility, and questions the effectiveness of this measure. Although these messages aim to raise awareness, they often stigmatize and ignore the social reality and the urgency of harm reduction approaches in the context of unsafe abortion. Analyzing international experiences and health recommendations, the author argues that effective policies should offer safe access, medical support, and accurate information, rather than relying solely on fear and misinformation.
→ Gender Equality in the Electoral Court: the New TSE Rules 🔗
The text addresses the new guidelines of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to ensure gender equality in elections, focusing on preventing fraud in the quotas for female candidates. Of note is the approval of Summary 73, which establishes objective criteria for identifying fictitious candidacies, such as low voter turnout, lack of campaigning, and standardized financial reporting. These measures aim to strengthen women's effective participation in politics and ensure the integrity of the electoral process.
→ Moral harassment between discourse and practice: the fall of Nísia Trindade 🔗
The text discusses the dismissal of Health Minister Nísia Trindade, analyzing it as a case of moral harassment and political gender-based violence. The author argues that the way the Lula administration handled the dismissal, involving a lengthy process of disempowerment and public exposure of the minister, contradicts the government's own policies to combat harassment and discrimination.
Interviews
→ Professor in Germany analyzes discourse against underrepresented groups 🔗
During her tenure as Brazil Chair at the University of Münster (Germany), Professor Ana Larissa Oliveira (UFMG) will organize an international meeting on hate speech, offensive language, and their impact on underrepresented groups and democracy. The initiative is part of her research project, developed with support from CAPES, and aims to promote scientific exchange between Brazil and Germany, as well as strengthen research networks on topics such as gender, sexuality, and conflictual language.
→ Hate speech targeting the Supreme Court and minorities 🔗
The widespread access to social media in Brazil has been accompanied in recent years by large-scale online attacks orchestrated by extremists against various representatives of specific segments of society. According to research by three UFMG professors, between 2022 and 2023, the preferred targets were Supreme Federal Court justices, women, and LGBT people in positions of power. One of the professors, Ana Larissa Oliveira, who also works as a researcher at the CNPQ (National Council of Public Health), specializes in linguistic studies with an emphasis on conflict language. She spoke with Marco Antonio Soalheiro in Mundo Político. She explains that the posts are responses to messages from the Court and contain demoralizing insults and aggressive attacks delivered in simple, emotionally charged language, aimed at discrediting the judges' decisions. The preferred targets are Alexandre de Moraes and Cármen Lúcia. In her case, the posts contain content that involves double aggression against the justice and the woman. Ana Larissa says that hate speech on social media is anti-democratic and authoritarian, and the study's motivation is to defend democracy.
→ In an article, researchers analyze hate speech against Supreme Court judges 🔗
Experts from the Faculties of Arts and Law examined messages that circulated on Twitter (now X) between 2021 and 2022.
→ Interview with Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi and Monique Vieira Miranda: Far-right discourse in Brazil 🔗
In this interview, Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi, and Monique Vieira Miranda discuss their article in the Journal of Language and Politics, "Far-right discourse in Brazil: Shameless language as a common practice?" They explain their main findings and how they hope to build on this work.
