Time - USA (2022-06-06)

Sônia Guajajara’s parents couldn’t

read, and she had to leave home at

age 10 to work. Despite this, she de-

fied statistics and managed to gradu-

ate university. From an early age,

she fought forces that have been

trying to exterminate her commu-

nity’s roots for over 500 years. Sonia

resisted and she continues to re-

sist today: against machismo, as a

woman and a feminist; against the

massacre of Indigenous peoples, as

an activist; and against neoliberal-

ism, as a socialist. In 2018, she be-

came the first Indigenous woman

Sônia

Guajajara

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