Jész Ipólito
Jész Ipólito is a fat and black sapatão, Sagittarius, almost 30 years old, born in the interior of São Paulo. She is part of a black family that has undergone a strong whitening process over time, the rule is "cleaning the family". Today, Jész is the first of her family to go to a public university. She is also the last black person in her family.
She is the creator and writer of the Gorda & Sapatão blog, covering themes concerning blackness, black feminism, lesbianism, fatphobia, and the fat body. In the academic field, she has already studied Journalism, Public Policy Management, and Museology, but never graduated in any of them. At last, she found her path in university in Gender and Diversity at the Federal University of Bahia. She began her path in politics in the Unified Black Movement MNU in 2011, still in São Paulo, where she developed activities concerning black youth, black feminism, and sexuality. In 2014, she was one of the organizers of the I Intersectional Feminism Camp in São Paulo, bringing together 150 young people, most of them black and indigenous, in 3 days of political training. Currently, she is part of the National Articulation of Black Young Feminists – ANJF, an organization that brings together young black women from 15 to 31 years of age in all regions of Brazil in the fight against racism, sexism, LGBTphobia and other forms of oppression. In 2017, she was part of the executive committee that organized the II National Meeting of Black Young Feminists, bringing together 400 young black women from every region of the country, an occasion that resulted in the official creation of the ANJF. She also works with black women movements in Bahia and in Brazil’s Northeast region.
She is the creator and writer of the Gorda & Sapatão blog, covering themes concerning blackness, black feminism, lesbianism, fatphobia, and the fat body. In the academic field, she has already studied Journalism, Public Policy Management, and Museology, but never graduated in any of them. At last, she found her path in university in Gender and Diversity at the Federal University of Bahia. She began her path in politics in the Unified Black Movement MNU in 2011, still in São Paulo, where she developed activities concerning black youth, black feminism, and sexuality. In 2014, she was one of the organizers of the I Intersectional Feminism Camp in São Paulo, bringing together 150 young people, most of them black and indigenous, in 3 days of political training. Currently, she is part of the National Articulation of Black Young Feminists – ANJF, an organization that brings together young black women from 15 to 31 years of age in all regions of Brazil in the fight against racism, sexism, LGBTphobia and other forms of oppression. In 2017, she was part of the executive committee that organized the II National Meeting of Black Young Feminists, bringing together 400 young black women from every region of the country, an occasion that resulted in the official creation of the ANJF. She also works with black women movements in Bahia and in Brazil’s Northeast region.
