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Young black, LGBT and Quilombola: meet the story of Débora Gomes Lima

"I was a black woman in the middle of a bunch of white guys. So I was discredited". This is how Débora Gomes Lima describes the hostile experience she lived at university, when she was studying Chemistry. Black woman, LGBT and Quilombola, the 24-year-old from Aragominas-TO, faced countless forms of oppression when seeking academic training outside the community where she was born.