Beyond all pity
Carolina Maria de Jesus · 1960
”Quarto de Despejo is my bedside book, because it says so much about my own path.”
Also recommended by: Conceição Evaristo
Erika Hilton is a federal representative for São Paulo. Before that, she was a city councilwoman in the state capital — the most-voted-for woman in the country in that election — and in 2022 became one of the first trans women elected to the National Congress. Her work focuses on human rights and social policy. She publicly recommended Quarto de Despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus — "those who haven't read it need to" — alongside contemporary social research on racial quotas and the work of Alexandra Kollontai.
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”Quarto de Despejo is my bedside book, because it says so much about my own path.”