"Afrodescendants in Bahia, Brazil," a talk by Donminique Acevedo, an editor, journalist, documentary filmmaker and producer. Hosted by Tulia Falleti.

Donminique Acevedo is an editor, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and producer affiliated with Colectivo Cacos and Correio Nagô.  With a graduate degree in Gender, Race and Sexualities from the State University of Bahia, Donminique Acevedo is a journalist working on national projects linked to diversity and political innovation. In 2018, she participated in the program “U.S. Study Tour for Brazilian Journalists: Press Freedom and Innovation in Journalism", in the United States. She co-directed the documentary AIUÊ - Escutando os Sons dos Quilombos (2018) and the documentary Ganhadeiras (2010). In 2017, she was invited by Corporación Amigos de la Unesco to provide audiovisual and web coverage to the Third International Colloquium on African Descent in Cali, Colombia. She is currently producing Anastacia vai falar - O que querem as mulheres negras na Diáspora Afro Latina?, a series filmed in Brazil and Argentina featuring the intersections between theory and practice to address sociocultural dimensions of gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality in the lives black women in Latin America.

 

Hosted by Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science.