“If it wasn’t for an orixá, I wouldn’t be standing!” - Gender violence, religious racism and political care at democratic crossroads in Brazil: prefigurative re-ori-entations based on Candomblé candidacies (2020-2022)
law; policy; womanism; terreiro epistemology.
This doctoral research project seeks to bring the intersection between law, terreiro and politics based on the candidacies of black axé women in the 2022 electoral election. To this end, I will analyze, through semi-structured interviews, how the political mobilization of categories took place of axé in politics by candidates in the elections of the year in question as a form of self-defense against gender-based political violence. The proposal is to think critically about the hegemonic legal construction of political citizenship based on feminist and Afro-centered epistemologies, identifying the fissures, resignifications and prefigured disputes with the aim of producing a different, sensitive, embodied democratic policy that guarantees mechanisms of recognition.