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Black and white photo of Dilma Rousseff at her military court hearing. The judges in the background are hiding their faces with their hands.

2025-01-16 10:15:06

CarveHerName via Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

CarveHerName@mstdn.social

#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.

In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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2025-01-16 10:18:33

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

rysiek@mstdn.social

@CarveHerName the "interrogators" hiding their faces is such a powerful visual. Wow.

2025-01-16 10:27:06

Anna e só

anna@friend.camp

@rysiek @CarveHerName She was in her early 20s and was tortured for several days before this photo was taken. Those people hiding their faces are not judges, they’re military “interrogators” (adding quotes here because the Brazilian military should never have their role legitimized; they had no right and never will even though they’ve always felt like the owners of the Brazilian republic).

2025-01-16 10:30:46

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

rysiek@mstdn.social

@anna @CarveHerName thank you for this context, I was going by the alt-text which mentioned judges.

The point about legitimization is such an important one!

The point stands: men with all the power in this situation hide their faces. Bullies and cowards (all bullies are cowards after all).

2025-01-16 10:39:38

Anna e só

anna@friend.camp

@rysiek They have no shame, and Jair Bolsonaro (as a congressman at the time) made sure to mention the name of one of the most deplorable people (Ustra was in charge of DOI-Codi, which tortured so many—including Dilma herself—and assassinated a lot people as well) when he voted for Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment in 2016. This military dictatorship is a wound that has never healed in Brazil’s history, and we keep going in a direction that keeps it that way.

2025-01-16 14:04:05

blaue_Fledermaus

blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io

@CarveHerName
She's certainly a controversial figure.

On one side, under her government a ton of really good stuff was done.

On another, every time she opened her mouth she had an immense aura of incompetence.

I wasn't born yet, but I've heard that the guerrilla movement sometimes hurt innocent people and did actions for their own self profit instead of hurting the government. They were seen as just common bandits disguised as "resistance".

2025-01-16 16:54:40

CarveHerName

CarveHerName@mstdn.social

The Simpsons bus driver saying don't make me tap the sign, then a close up of the sign, which reads women in history are complex too.

@blaue_Fledermaus *taps the sign*

2025-01-16 17:30:44

blaue_Fledermaus

blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io

@CarveHerName
Yes! Certainly!

I guess that was sort of the intention of my comment, because Dilma is one that a lot (most?) of people either demonize or idolize.

2025-01-16 19:25:05

Aracnus

aracnus@social.teia.bio.br

And this is precisely the problem here, @blaue_Fledermaus . She was a great woman with great history, but not an idol. Dilma isn't perfect, but she had many great lines and suffered a lot of prejudice throughout her term as president. The “aura of incompetence” associated with her speeches derives from clippings and memes produced precisely to associate this aura with her.

And reduce the guerrilla movement to just "just common bandits disguised as 'resistance'" is to completely disregard the historical moment in which this movement took place.

@CarveHerName

2025-01-16 20:44:19

blaue_Fledermaus

blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io

@aracnus

Yes!

Even at the time of the "store wind" I was irritated because it was clear (to me) what she meant.

I live in the very "conservative" "right-wing" Santa Catarina, so I know information around me is very biased.

I tried to say that "this is something people say/think about her", not necessarily that I agree.

@CarveHerName