Resumo:
This article briefly presents the biography of Luiza Bairros. Addressing her militancy,
intellectual production and political participation in the institutional sphere in Brazil is an
opportunity to revisit our feminisms in the light of her criticisms of social inequality and
racism. This is a qualitative bibliographic research, based on decolonial and intersectional
feminist studies, with biographism being the methodological choice. Knowing the
contributions of black Brazilian intellectuals, like Luiza Bairros, is an essential task for the
resumption of a project that envisages the construction of a society free of racism,
patriarchal violence and capitalist class exploitation. The article is also homage to this great
thinker, activist and unforgettable minister who left us in 2016.
