It was supposed to be just a photo of a happy couple on New Year’s Eve, but a photo of Nadia Bochi, a former reporter for Mais Você (Globo), and Silvia Henz, a fashion influencer, sparked homophobic attacks.
Silvia published a photo last Sunday in which they kiss to celebrate the New Year. Soon after, the influencer began receiving biased comments and “a rain of unfollows,” causing him to lose more than five thousand followers in minutes.
in conversation with syringes, Nadia says she has received other homophobic messages throughout her career, but this time she was worried about her wife. Silvia specializes in fashion and timeless style for women and is currently receiving criticism from the female audience.
I was working on Mais Você, a program for the “traditional family”, people were surprised when I posted about lesbian visibility. In her case, which only works for women, realizing a dislike brings a deep pain.
“It’s a rejection at the core of the feminine. We understand that we live in a patriarchal society, but when it comes from women, it hurts more. People who will benefit from our content. We feel as if we were forced to work , but could not exist in our affections”.
For Nadia, there are three different types of homophobic comments:
- With disgusting content, with vomiting and disgusting emojis
- With religious content, from pseudoChristians saying “Jesus doesn’t accept that”, “he is not God”, a distorted biblical discourse on what love is
- With a sense of surprise and disappointment saying “I swear you are lesbians” or “I loved you so much now I have to unfollow you”
They deleted aggressive messages and blocked trigger words. They even thought about temporarily leaving social media, but decided to talk about it to work together to fight prejudice. After denouncing the case on social media, they received messages of support on a “sisterhood network.”
Silvia Henz and Nadia Bochi have been together for six years
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prejudices in fashion. After the homophobic attacks, Nadia and Silvia noticed a “strange and sad rabble” in the fashion world. They had the perception that sexism is still very strong in this area and also noted that there are differences within the LGBTQIA+ community itself.
People follow openly gay fashion designers and influencers. They can live out their sexuality openly. How many lesbian influencers are there in the fashion world? You have the stigma of a badly dressed lesbian truck driver
“A person can become relevant, but the world contradicts them when they come out of the closet. It’s like lesbians can’t have a voice. Even in the fashion world, a universe where gay men are taken liberty becomes more free. Women can identify with it as long as they stand in a masculinized stigma and don’t set a fashion trend.”
She believes men have an advantage in the fashion world. “Steve Jobs and Mark Zukeberg, for example, wear jeans and a tshirt and are successful, a woman in jeans and a tshirt does not achieve anything. She teaches women to have few and good pieces that represent them and help them achieve success and respect,” he says.
passion and marriage. Despite homophobic attacks, the story of Nadia and Silvia is one of love and affection. The two met six years ago when they were still working as reporters.
She did an interview with me, we fell in love and got married at the beginning of the pandemic. Today we live in Paraíba where I have a guest house sowing love. We live in a community where we sow love. I have a social project of community cinema and do audiovisual work.
Today both work as content creators. Nadia teaches public speaking and storytelling courses with journalists, while Silvia conducts fashion training with a focus on women’s empowerment. They’re even collaborating on Match, a project that combines speech training and style for women. From now on, they want to talk more about sexuality and legally denounce possible homophobic attacks.