User:Occono17/Ryane Leão

Ryane Leão (Cuiabá, 1989) is an Afro-Brazilian poet, author, and educator.

As an adult, she moved to São Paulo and studied Humanities at the Federal University of São Paulo.

Starting her career by using social media and street art, moving to participating in poetry slams and eventually progressing to publishing poetry collections. Leão has constantly focused on empowering and defending the rights of black women and women in general.

Early work (2001 - 2015)
Leão started everything via blogging when she was only 12 years old. Her writing career began to evolve in 2008 when she began sharing her writing on social media and then primarily in the form of paste-up street art throughout the city. This was met with resistance from local police and accusations from locals that what she was doing was vandalism. Despite these deterrents she continued sharing her poetry on the streets. Another form in which Leão shared her writing was on her Instagram page, where she has over 620,000 followers. She began her Instagram page in 2010, titled "Onde jazz meu coração" which translates to "Where my heart jazzes." She posts photos of her street art, snippets of her poetry, and personal updates. As Leão became more popular, she began to participate in local poetry slams, performing for friends and family.

Tudo nela brilha e queima (2016 - 2017)
In 2016 Leão began a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of publishing her first book. She quickly achieved enough funds but her busy work life prevented her from connecting with a publisher. While at an event hosted by Rupi Kaur, she connected with the editor that translated Kaur's works to Portuguese, who helped her to edit and finalize her book. She published her first poetry collection in 2017 titled "Tudo Nela Brilha e Queima", meaning "Everything in her that glows and burns" translated to English. The poetry focuses mainly on empowerment of women, the defending of black female rights, and hearkening back to ancestry, with the goal of the book being to open doors for other black female writers to be brought to the forefront of the writing domain.



Jamais peço desculpas por me derramar (2018 - 2019)
With the success of her first poetry collection, she quickly wrote and compiled a second collection only two years later in 2019 titled "Jamais peço desculpas por me derramar" meaning "I never apologize for pouring myself out" translated to English. This second book focuses much more on Ryane herself, as she uses her own identity as a black female poet to bring to light the importance of seeing, reading, and listening to other female and black poets.

Works

 * 2017 - Tudo Nela Brilha e Queima (ed. Planeta)
 * 2019 - Jamais peço desculpas por me derramar (ed. Planeta)

Influences
Leão has, over time, cited several other poets that have inspired her in her writing and publications.

These include:


 * Rupi Kaur
 * Luz Ribeiro
 * Mel Duarte
 * Bell Puã