Hello, class!
Today, we’re going to take a little field trip over to The Capoeira Blog, where Faisca has kindly published a guest post of mine. Faisca was really nice in helping me when I first started trying to get Mandingueira off the ground, and so I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you!
Before going on to the guest post, I apologize in advance for any irregularities in posting this week! I’m actually on vacation in North Africa right now, so it’s going to be a little bit tricky. The topic for today’s post went through an interesting process. Originally, I was going to publish the article on maculelê, first in the Capoeira é Dança series. Then, thanks to Day 1 of my trip, in fact, I completely forgot about that and was going to write a one-off post titled “The Scariest Night of My Life and Why Things Like this Blog Need to Exist”. (Don’t worry, nothing happened, but that fact itself was also a part of it, as you’ll see.) Now that Faisca has published my guest post, I also plan to publish a sister post to it, looking at women’s strength and the perception of it (or its lack) from a more theoretical point of view. I hope to keep posting throughout my trip, and will hit all of the things mentioned above, so please keep checking back for more!
Welcome to Mandingueira, a blog on women, capoeira, and women in capoeira. As I’m new to blogging, relatively new to capoeira, and brand new to taking up with feminist issues, this should be an interesting process! To begin with (as they are wont to be begun with), an introduction: Eu sou Joaninha, and I’ve been training capoeira for just over two years now. After hanging up my abada at night, I become an undergraduate English major, bona fide bookworm and grammar stickler, and writer/editor/publisher/journalist-hopeful.
Mandingueira 