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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Gabriella Gomes, 24, is in nursing school. But she says she didn’t always enjoy being a student when she was younger because she was bullied.
For years, she says her childhood peers teased her for being intelligent. She says they also made fun of her body type because she was not as thin as the other girls. Students were verbally aggressive, calling her names such as “whale.” Sometimes, the words escalated to actions.
CARUARU, BRAZIL – Maria Fernanda da Silva, 39, is a traditional midwife from Caruaru, a city in the interior of Brazil’s Northeast region. She has been working as a midwife since she was 12. She started helping her mother, who is also a midwife, at age 9.
“My mom called me her ‘little assistant,’” da Silva says.
She says she became more than an assistant at age 12 when a woman in her community needed help and her mother was out of town.
BRASILIA, BRAZIL – In the typical dry and hot climate of Brasília, Brazil’s capital, voices of protest, amplified by megaphones, resounded throughout the city center last Wednesday as 70,000 people – mostly women – marched to demand more rights for women who work in forests and rural areas at the Marcha das Margaridas, or March of the Daisies.