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“My father believed in the revolution tomorrow,” says , 29, a community health worker in the Maré favela, Rio. “I believe in the child’s homework tonight.”

At a recent protest in São Paulo against police brutality, a line of young women stood in front of the riot police. They wore no masks. They carried no stones. Instead, they held framed photos of their fathers—some alive, some gone. And they sang. as panteras em nome do pai e da filha

They don’t carry guns. They carry books, cameras, and legal briefs. Meet the young women redefining Black militancy through legacy and love. By [Author Name] “My father believed in the revolution tomorrow,” says

The original Panthers are mostly gone. But in every girl who raises her fist—not in anger, but in awareness—the panther lives again. They carried no stones

Mônica’s latest exhibition, “Panteras de Saia” (Panthers in Skirts), features portraits of daughters posing with their fathers’ old clothes—leather jackets, dashikis, worn-out boots. In each photo, the daughter holds a symbol of her own fight: a law degree, a stethoscope, a ballot box.

“We are not erasing them,” Mônica says. “We are completing them.” Not all the daughters had fathers who lived to see their victories. Many of the original Panthers were killed, disappeared, or died from state-sanctioned violence. What remains is absence—and memory.

Janaína is one of dozens of women now organizing under a new, informal banner: (Daughters of the Panthers). They are lawyers, psychologists, programmers, and community organizers. Their logo is not a snarling cat, but a panther’s silhouette cradling a child. The Daughter’s Strategy The original Panthers were confrontational. These daughters are strategic .