I created Instituto Minas Programam in 2015 with Ariane Cor e Fernanda Balbino. We promote learning opportunities for girls/women of colour who want to learn about tech in general (and who are especially interested in learning how to code). Since 2015, more than 300 girls and women have joined our courses and workshops.
Below are some of my favorite projects.
study group on tech, gender and race
In 2020, together with Ester Borges, I facilitated a study group about the relationships between technology, gender and race. The study group was a space for women (mostly women of colour) to discuss how digital technologies interact with structural oppression, such as racism. I wrote this reflection on some of our discussions.
foreword of Algorithms of Oppression in Portuguese
In 2021, Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression was published in Portuguese and I was invited to write the foreword. This book is such an important part of a growing field of technology studies from an intersectional Black feminist perspective and it was an immense honour and joy to write the opening words to the Brazilian edition.
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podcast
Since november 2022, together with Ester Borges, I host Minas Programam’s podcast. In each episode, we interview Black women (mostly from Brazil) about how we/they have been using digital technologies to fight for social justice.
Episodes available below (most of them in Portuguese):
research on TFGBV against Black Brazilian women
Between 2024 and 2025, I co-led a research project focusing on the experiences of Black Brazilian women with tech-facilitated gender based violence with the Feminist Internet Research Network.
- Some learnings in this podcast episode (in English).
- Read more about the research methodology here.
- Check out a summary of findings here.
