Alzira Rufino


Alzira Rufino is a Brazilian feminist and activist who is associated with the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement.
Rufino was born in Santos, São Paulo to a low-income family and worked as a child. She won her first literary prize in her youth. At age 19, she began her studies in healthcare, later graduating from nursing school.
Rufinois a leader in the Afro-Brazilian literature and cultural arts movement. In 1990, she founded Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra, the country's first black women's centre.

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