New Translation: Jonas Medeiros on Feminist Counterpublics in São Paulo’s East Side

We are happy to publish the newly translated article by Jonas Medeiros “From ‘Popular Feminism’ to ‘Peripheral Feminism’: Structural Transformations in São Paulo’s East Side’s Counterpublics”. Jonas Medeiros a social scientist and researcher at The Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and the research director of the Center for Critical Imagination: Political Economy and Citizenship (CCI). His work mainly focuses on critical theory and social movements, but he has also published on the Brazilian feminist movement and the politics of education. He co-edited The Bolsonaro Paradox: The Public Sphere and Right-wing Counterpublicity in Contemporary Brazil (2021). His article, originally published in 2019, examines the structural transformation of feminist organizing in São Paulo’s East Side, tracing the shift from “popular feminism” to “peripheral feminism” and analyzing how these movements reshape local counterpublics and the politics of gender, race, and class.