When Professor Brenno A. D. Neto, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (JBCS), invited me to write about what this journal has meant to women in our field, I said yes before I had fully worked out what I wanted to say. The invitation came just after my defense for full professorship at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), on a committee of which he himself was a member. Twenty years into a life spent among molecules, models, and manuscripts, I am, if I am honest, far more practiced at describing a model or a binding pocket than at describing myself. But the invitation stayed with me, because the JBCS has, in fact, walked with me through my career at almost every stage of it, as a venue where a young researcher from Goiás State, far from the traditional São Paulo-Rio axis of Brazilian chemistry, could publish, be read, and be taken seriously on exactly the same terms as anyone else. That is not a small thing. For many of us, it has been the difference between a career and a false start.

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