I’ll tell my story, I’ll go
tell this story from four
questions
the first is how to develop and
How do I learn about my self esteem?
the second is about how I look in the
the third mirror on the abundance
on power over shortages and the fourth
What legacy will I leave for my
Daughter, I really like stories and a
these stories that I really like
this power of black women
countries in Colombia
This is a picture of a hair to
You can do your hair but not
it’s just a hair
this hair was a map was a route of
escape they drew on their heads to
escape to the palanques of the palanques
are a kind of quilombo that everything
that we have here so they
used is the head to draw the
escape routes whether with the braids or
with the boats and as they went
advancing in these gaps they 11
decoding for other Africans
protect other slaves who are the
way
This is a story that goes through a
issue of pressure vulnerabilities
but it is also a matter of
strategy
At first we may think that she
is turning into a grandson by ensuring
head but has no refinement has
history has power has
intelligence
the second story is of women is
winners known as winners
from west africa
black women earned their living
survived from trading in the
food trade they sold
things next year in brazil people
complete 188 years of abolition of
slavery and when you get three
decades ago women the board
of the bay with akon acarajé with the cockroach
their lives also earned them
also promoted their families
research today that 70% of these
women
That woman’s chairs were on the board.
which are part of the association
commercial of dodô acarajé sustain
your families with the one with this
refinement with this question of selling
food on the board who can
balance board a head and
sell and talk and come and and market and
do all the marketing
these women did so in the
virology yes but I see it as a
inventiveness scheme of creativity
power and you realize that so
This Women’s History Board
Bahia happens in a diaspora way
from west africa you go to
Colombia goes to other countries and is
they continue to perpetuate is a
photo of a woman in colombia is the
another story that is a story that
I also see how
history of hair transitions
black women influenced by
American movement for at least five
has been making the process of
capillary transition said accept is the
your hair in the best shape and no more
plate your hair and do not over beat
chemical processes or
anything that that of a certain
How to erase your identity from me?
that you are and since then they come
telling stories from the internet of a
very oral form they use the
digital means to count day by day
how is the process of going through the
capillary transition
this issue of black women
using digital means of
oral is bringing ancestral formulas
of their grandmothers from their mothers
treating the hair, for example, mastic
today is super reverberando in the market
of cosmetics they changed that
question of cosmetics in brazil
He never heard so much about in hair
curly curly for the first time
google search says first time in
story does not say that the search for
curly hair is up more than 200% in
relation to straight hair and this
history a power story of
black women who declare themselves
as black and that of self-declaration
passes through aesthetics and passes through
hair
these three stories are stories
that at first we can
think that it is a question of only
vulnerability only to scarcity of the
issues of inequality of slavery
It’s common to make money for the car.
the question whether it is accepted by the
society by an aesthetic standard and in
The truth is that there is a
power has an abundance that the
which they will find to be able to
make transformations and pull an entire
generation of each of these generations
pulled a generation and these three
stories have to do with my life
I come from a matriarchal family
led by women
my great grandmother died of my grandmother
is there for my mother and daughter and
I am five generations of women
I learned something at home that all
time we had difficulty
my grandmother was the head of
family of our house she works in a
house for more than 70 years in
a single family and my great-grandmother
to help my grandmother in the
income she invented something then
she started selling hairpins
she would make her hairstyles and hand it to
she then went on to sell and
marmitex and she then opened her
own house our house for the people
eating and having an experience is
mercy live in her home cooking
she was over 80 but still
so she had the impetus to
endeavoring not to undertake agents to
make money to pay our
but this undertaking had more
a vision that was more than 80 years old
I used to say that, Adriana, you do mine.
card makes are banners and flyers
distributed near works because it is there
where they are and will order the
our food she was never to any
business school to be able to know
how was the strategy of
communication and marketing
but she had a very strong question
which are to know the ancestral knowledge
our technologies our ways of
and we usually do not
looks at entrepreneurship on the
our ways and we come
holding at least 130 years the year that
completes 130 years of abolition of
slavery
is to undertake was the way that people
made to account for our life and I
I inherited this from my grandmother.
in 2001 I was unemployed and
he also had to survive like everything else.
world and I started to sell my
clothes do not have a store called the
exchange swap as I went
advancing in these street events
in these alternative markets wants a
where I was selling I started to have a
number of pieces and together with a
friend who was also unemployed and
was from the movie area she started to
sell cake agent were this double and
began to make these street fairs and
one of these fairs had a trawler I
I lost part of this merchandise and went there
Back on the bus type there
complaining about what was happening and
like we had to overtake
this issue of the limit of
survival was that we decided to
make the black market and we decided
make the black market because at the end of
the early 1990s and early 2000s to
Madalena village served ballads black
music
many houses and walked in a street was 10 10
20 houses of black music and music
black led by black dj for rocks
blacks for a whole black production but
in the end at the end of the night
who counted the money was mostly
white men and it bothered me
see all the displacement of young blacks
for that territory to produce
to consume but not to take ownership
of what was good for you, too.
part of its context and then I decided
make Black Friday in 2002 in the square
benedito calixto along with this friend
people had no idea of
What was it like to do a fair then?
experience of being entrepreneurial and
It was very overwhelming because what we
had while while it’s objective and e
vision and dream was that we could
bring together all this creative power and
inventive angels young black women
everything in a single space that the
people could look and recognize this
abundance and that’s how it started in
2002 as well as the stalls in the
Benedito Calixto square selling everything
that you can imagine leading
culture leading plastic arts
photography movies all in the square music
in 2003 we were invited to leave the
place an undersigned
we did not do the fair any more
over there
and the next year we sold
hot wine and six months before
of the fair gathered money and paid the
today 15 years have passed
the black market turned into the biggest black market
of Latin America a reference
international people gather
entrepreneurs from all over Brazil.
other countries take culture from brazil
whole of other countries we talk
jazz for what we’re doing
connecting globally is why the
people connect with several networks over
120 thousand people went through all these
years of the black fair to undertake seven more
enterprising artists and a
monetary circulation of those
inventive creative entrepreneurs and
powerful
This is a bit of my story, I
could never believe that one day it would
come so far from being recognized
this prize is between a 51
most influential people in the world is
never even because what I wanted was
in fact and sees me represented and
When is this award?
two months ago I was there silts
thaísa there in new york for this
and had leaders from various
African countries of various
other countries outside Africa as well
they looked and so and the three of us like
Representatives of a Brazil from a Brazil
which represents more than 50 per cent of
which means that it has more than 100
millions of Afro-descendants
brazil is the second black population of
world thinking this in the world what
represents this percentage in terms
and there they talked about a sixth
of the territory this sixth territory to
diaspora we do
part in a very quantitative and
this context is of this black population
self-declaring as black were born
many blacks but that was not only in our
the last 15 years the black population
begins to self-declare is in function
of quotas based on actions
affirmative according to the movements
tives on the basis of the
100% black
today our why a 100%
black but all these movements
all these movements of culture
political of social movements of
black women do what we are
today as a power they recognize me
all these stories is has a
the issue of vulnerability to
people leads the inequality ranking
but there is another side that is the
creative inventive stories
strategic smart one
technology an intelligence that people
Do not recognize Brazil, no.
Look at this as power but I
I recognize there are a lot of people who are
acknowledging then I think
answering the three questions that
I did is the power abundance and the
shortage they walk close together but the
that will make a difference is how you
look at each one of them
I love myself when I recognize myself in these
many stories in these stories.
black women in the stories of
african colombia and october that
change the market and I hope it will
the market of the winners of the
bahia that made history and does in the year
that comes to us to complete 130 years of
many entrepreneurship skills and I
love me part of these stories and I think
that the greatest power is not the legacy
I can leave it to my daughter who
this goal is that it is
recognize these stories of light and
of real power of wealth I think
that the greatest power that we have
people recognize in this place of
abundance and the most refined powers
Who are we and who are we?
powerful
thanks
the player’s car
[Applause]
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