Movimento Capoeira Mulher: saberes ancestrais e a práxis feminista no século XXI em Belém do Pará.

Abstract

This work deals about gender identity in capoeira wheels in Belém-Pará, treated at the same level of the Capoeira Wolmen9s Movement, a social collective of female capoeiristas from various groups and associations of capoeira operating at the city of Belém of Pará. My research lócus. It is in this scenario that as a black intellectual woman with political and academic engagement in the antiracist and antimachist struggles that I tell my empirical and scientific experiences, together with this social collective to give visibility to the subjectivities, inequalities, silencings and omissions experienced by female capoeiristas, to understand – What are the experiences of social, political and pedagogical resistances that women use to construct their identities in movements in the urban peripheries of the Grande Belém, by sharing a common cultural practice, the capoeira, and how their knowledge and experiences can contribute to rethinking others epistemologies for education. Regarding the methodological procedures of the participant research and the traditional and digital ethnographic observation, Emphasinzing my engagement end interaction with the social collective, aiming to describe and interpret the data collected in the field. Considering the ethos of capoeira in the process of analysis, because they are part of the cultural and symbolic universe of the daily life of the investigated subjects as elements to rethink hegemonic cultural and educational values that sediment sexism and male chauvinist in Brazilian society. The perceived results point to the political awareness of female capoeiristas, to the invingorating role of the wheel of capoeira, as well as the promotion of capoeira as an Afro-Brazilian cultural expression that embraces and promotes social identities, beliefs and values in the perspective of rethinking other epistemologies for education in the Amazonia Paraense.