No jogo da ginga, Janja ginga: capoeirista enegrecendo o PPGNEIM

Abstract

This article aims to understand the capoeira ginga trajectory of Professor Janja Araújo, PhD, and how she contributed to blackening the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism (PPGNEIM) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), based on the praxis and thought of the black feminist. Today, she is the only black professor on the program's permanent staff. In order to achieve the objectives, bibliographical and documentary research was used to locate and analyze Mestra Janja's writings, her actions and performances, intersecting with national and state movements and demands related to racial and gender issues. The conclusion is that Mestra Janja, as the only black professor at PPGNEIM, mobilizes structures based on Capoeira de Angola, Angoleiro Feminism and black movements, in which she manages to have a horizontal relationship with her peers and incite debates on race and gender in the spaces she occupies through her memories, ancestry and wisdom.