Pepperoni’s Globo harassment lawyer cited as the first black woman in the STF

“A happy black woman is a revolutionary act,” lawyer and JD Soraia Mendes posted on International Women’s Day.

The criminalist’s happiness may soon be even greater. She is high in the betting for a seat on the Federal Supreme Court.

Above all to succeed the judge Rosa Weber, current president of the Court, who will have to retire in October, when he will be 75 years old.

In the event that she is indeed nominated by President Lula and approved in the Senate on Saturday, Dr. Soraia Gama would become the first black woman – and only the fourth female representative, the majority of the population – to occupy a seat in the STF.

Created in 1890, the court has had three openly black men among its ministers to date. The most recent, Joaquim Barbosa, appointed in Lula’s first term, served from 2003 to 2014.

Soraia Mendes has works recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She is mainly dedicated to feminist criminology, the study of crimes without focusing on the male figure and, at the same time, considering gender, racial, social and heteronormative issues.

He was Dani Calabresa’s attorney in the sexual harassment complaint against Marcius Melhem when the two worked together in Globo’s humor department.

At the time, in talks with the press, he disapproved of the recurring strategy in similar cases of discrediting the victim and even blaming her for the violence she suffered.

Another famous case involving the lawyer involved model and blogger Mariana Ferrer. The acquittal of the entrepreneur accused of sexual assault against the young woman has generated the curious thesis of ‘culpable rape’, without intention.

On social media, Soraia Mendes has been advertising her ‘anti-candidacy for secular and independent STF’ since 2021. Nearly 6,000 people ratified the petition in support of the attorney.

Source: Terra