‘If you are moved by the feelings or messages in the stories collected here, if you identify - do not fall into the temptation of saying that this happened independently from the colour of their skin.’
                                                    Miriam Alves

In Women Righting/ Mulheres escre-vendo, the narratives speak powerfully whether through the focus upon a sexually abused child, a job-seeking Afro-Brazilian male, a lover’s recollection of a night of passion, or through any of the several nuanced tales rendering an important and overdue visibility to Afro-Brazilian authors and their writing.

‘Reading these stories is not a passive act. One cannot merely be a neutral observer as if what happens in the stories does not concern us.’