In the month we celebrate the 12th edition of Black Women’s July, a collective agenda developed by Odara, the Black Women’s Institute in Bahia, which involves other black women’s organizations, highlights essential black women’s initiatives in the fight against racism and sexism, structural elements of Brazilian society. This agenda refers to July 25, the International Day of Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Black Women and National Tereza de Benguela Day.
Through training and an advocacy agenda, activities were carried out in quilombola communities in the state of Bahia, aimed at discussing and proposing social transformations based on reflections about social and political empowerment in the lives of urban and quilombola black women. A group of women, of different ages and from different communities in the state of Bahia, came together to promote understanding and provide an interpretation of the experiences of these black women. Organized by the Rota dos Quilombos Collective, the Renascer Institute and the Association for the Protection of the Disadvantaged (SPD), the activity was supported by CESE through its Small Projects Programme.