Luna Vitrolira, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, presents Em nome da Liberdade (In the Name of Freedom), a performance inspired by two of her books: the poetry collection Aquenda—O Amor Às Vezes É Isso [Aquenda—Sometimes love is this] and and the narrative poem Memória Tem Águas Espessas [Memory has dense waters]. In the first, she confronts the paradoxes of love, showing how it can not only function as an intimate bond but also as an oppressive social force. By addressing the physical, verbal, and psychological violence endured in the name of romantic love, Vitrolira lays bare how this specifically affects racialized women’s bodies and lives. In the second, she turns to the historical wounds left by the erasure of Black ancestry in Brazil and the ruptures it created in genealogy, while affirming the power of reconnecting with ancestral pasts and reclaiming the right to dream of new futures rooted in healing and freedom. Both works are deeply tied to the author’s own history, grounded in the zona da mata of Pernambuco, a territory marked by sugarcane culture and colonial violence. In this performance blending spoken word, song, and spirituality, Vitrolira transforms her personal experience into a collective ritual. In the Name of Freedom refuses the various forms of silencing imposed on Black women and inscribes language as a territory of healing, reconnection, and continuity.