The lawyer and presenter worked during the nine months of her pregnancy
With millions of followers on social media, the presenter and lawyer Gabriela Prioli is now launching her second book, ideologiesof Cia das Letras. She used to talk about topics considered complex by the general public, she worked during the nine months of her pregnancy. “I wanted to divide my time between work and the experience of motherhood. I would say that I succeeded, I did my best”, she tells the journalist. Marcela Pees🇧🇷 Read the interview below.
In “Ideologies” you talk about topics that many people don’t master. How is the public response?
Many people tell me that from my speech, from the way I communicate, they started to feel like they belonged and empowered. They feel safer and more aware of their own opinions and positions. This is what makes me happiest. That’s why I do my job, to include more people in the conversation.
You are a woman considered by the most beautiful. Has this ever interfered with your work?
I would problemize the ‘beautiful’. Of course we have a pattern and based on that pattern you will face different difficulties whether you fit into it or walk away from it. I can’t make an assessment of getting in the way more or less, you know?
Clear.
But I have many advantages for adapting to the current standard. Lot of. It’s a privilege. What I would say hinders, more than this adaptation to the standard, is the person showing concern for appearance. Me getting ready, wearing an accessory or presenting myself in an attention-grabbing way is associated with the feminine and consequently people interpret it as something that would distance me from other spaces. From the intellectual space, from the space of power, from the space of money. What people despise is what is associated with the feminine and not necessarily with traits.
What is it like to work with such an inflamed topic as politics, especially on social media?
The evaluation of social networks must be done remotely. Because what makes the most noise doesn’t always represent the majority of people who are present on the networks. People often say so-and-so gets deleted, but when you look at the number of tweets it takes for a topic to become a trending topic it’s not that big or that significant. We have to be careful of partial exposure, which is what we think happens the most, but it’s an illusion, it doesn’t represent reality.
Do you hit yourself with personal attacks?
Often it does, but it is necessary to know that there are also people, who communicate their pain and project their shadow. This has nothing to do with me personally, it’s a person’s problem. Even so, it’s not easy to deal with. I think if I had come into this world younger I would have had a little more difficulty. I think my maturity and trajectory already help me not stay in pain when there is a personal attack. Not that it doesn’t exist, but I’m not there, I follow and do my job.
You are nine months pregnant. Were you afraid of facing “attacks” during pregnancy?
Pregnancies are different. Mine was peaceful and based on that reality, I was able to work. Everyone has their own experience. Sure, going through a pregnancy in an election year was tricky. I wanted to divide my time between my work and experiencing the things of motherhood like making my trousseau, thinking about the birth of my daughter, celebrating. I’d say I did it, I did my best. I don’t think the balance was right on my daughter, I think she deserved a little more attention but that’s what I got. I’m not a person who gets hit.
Was being a mother a dream for you? Have you been planning this pregnancy for a long time?
I would not class being a mother as a dream. I wanted to educate a person rather than generate and I wasn’t sure if I was living a biological motherhood. But my husband and I decided to give it a try. After taking out the IUD, it took some time to get it. After a year I went to a doctor to start targeting behavior towards childbearing, that sort of thing. And I found it a bag, very boring. You feel pressured and then your period comes, you feel sad. Then I decided that I would freeze the eggs, because I was already 35. When I made up my mind, the moment I gave up, I got pregnant naturally.
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