Merê Mahi, Black Female Insurgency in the Jeje do Recôncavo Terreiros: Some Notes on the crossing of Bahia to Benin.
Black Women, Africa, African Diaspora, Jeje Mahi, intersectionality, Black Cinema.
This thesis discusses Black women politics in Brazil, approaching a particular context involving a journey of a group of Afro-Brazilian religious to Benin, in West Africa. In 2012, I organized a trip to Africa to shoot scenes of my film documentary named Merê. In this project, one of the most important goals was to bring attention to the contemporary flows abroad of Black women throughout the Brazilian boundaries to Africa, and its impacts to the Jeje Mahi communities in Bahia.