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Hello, I'm Rafaela Stalbalk Klose.

a bit about me.

I'm a journalist, content writer and moderator based in Los Angeles.

As a storyteller, I produce compelling stories – both written and in audio/podcast format – for various audiences.

I help executives, content marketers and product marketers tell stories, achieve online presence and build brands that communicate with their users. I have experience working with B2C, B2B and xx.

Additionally I help Scandinavian and Brazilian microbrands to enter the US market. 

Born in Brazil, raised in Sweden, I currently reside in Los Angeles. I am fluent in Swedish, English, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese and I speak intermediate French.

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Expressen •

Svart hårkultur: Hår som identitet, känslor och ursprung

”Genom att endast titta på en persons hår kunde vi lära oss nästan allting om den personens identitet”, förklarar journalisten Lori Tharps som är medförfattare av boken ”Hair Story – Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America”.

Men att gå till salongen grundade sig inte enbart i samhälls- och skönhetsnormer. För vissa var det också ett tillfälle där man fick befinna sig i en enbart svart kontext. I essän ”Straightening Our Hair” skriver författaren Bell Hooks: ”Hair pressing was a ritual of
The Mail & Guardian •

The other African ‘Sara’ of Europe’s obsession

Life’s twists: Sara Makatamela was captured and sold as a slave. She ended up working for the Forssman family as a maid.

These are the words engraved on a tombstone in a cemetery in Kalmar, a small town in southern Sweden.

Who was Mazhar “Sara” Makatemele and how did she end up in Sweden?

Makatemele was the first black woman to live in the town. The sepia and black-and-white photographs of Makatemele, elegantly dressed according to the fashion at the time, are believed to be the first photos

Festival Forum features CinemAfrica Retrospective Edition 2022 - Announcements - e-flux

e-flux Video & Film is very pleased to feature this year’s CinemAfrica Retrospective Edition, which wrapped this past March in various venues in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since its inception in 1998, CinemAfrica has been the most important Nordic festival to screen films from the African continent and diaspora. The regular festival took place this fall October 10–16, 2021, in conjunction and collaboration with the Afro-Swedish History Week. From March 17–20, 2022 CinemAfrica held a special retrospecti

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