In 2020, the blog brought the report of Rebecca Alethéia, a nurse who traveled to several places, mainly in Africa.
“Black women travelers exist and resist daily on the roads, highways, rails and planes,” she wrote in her account.
Rebecca enjoys traveling the world so much that she created an agency, Bitonga Travel, which takes other black women to know the places.
Since 2018 there have been several expeditions, such as the one that Giselle Christina tells below, when six women who did not know each other traveled for 20 days to Colombia and cities in northern Brazil.
In addition to talking about a “freedom never experienced before”, the sociologist asks: “Who is granted the right to know the world?”
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When I met Rebecca Alethéia (as recommended by Ciça, a woman from Ceará by birth, based in SP and currently living on the island of Boipeba in Bahia) I had no idea that she would grant me the right to see the world.
Inveterate traveller, the black woman is very good-natured, good-natured and above all generous. It didn’t take long and her travel adventures became my best entertainment at the end of the day, there was no 9 am soap opera that beat.
It wasn’t just seeing where she went, it was feeling what she felt, it was tasting each street food, laughing with the dances in the monuments and even getting upset with the perrengues she went through and still shared with us. After all, the life of the traveling black woman is not easy.
Traveling with her around this world, always curious to know the next destination was my great fun in 2021, but still my mind and heart were already resigned that just watching was good.
In the middle of the second half of 2021, Rebecca “launched the braba”: anyone who wants to travel with me puts their finger here and they’re going to close the pineapple. But Rebbe, where are we going? And that was the great insight, literally she was proposing a “come with me, on the way I’ll explain”. And what was my surprise when she said “yes” without even thinking, without doing the math, without choosing destiny, without controlling my own life.
When I realized that I was doing a lot of things for the first time, working insanely at a job in my field, programming myself to travel “alone”, taking the risk of meeting absolutely new people and still not controlling anything (I’m a Leo with a Taurus ascendant, I control everything all the time).
I was apprehensive, but at no time was I afraid. I was welcomed and very well supported, especially after the shock of knowing that the trip was international and I didn’t even have a passport. I was led and even guided by the bureaucracy that surrounds such an event and above all I was inspired by all the women who took this glorious journey and full of perrengues.
We traveled in all in six women, and I was the only trip virgin, but the exchanges between us were so genuine and intense that it felt like it was common for me too.
Each of us was very good at something and that made our long stay of 20 days wandering back and forth, there were days when one was rich and the other was poor (exchange problems), but none of us felt like nothing, the finances belonged to the group and we were all responsible for all the joint accounts. And all this with a freedom never experienced before.
As much as it was a group trip, it was not a plastered trip, each one made their own itinerary and so there were people who arrived before, who arrived in the middle, who stayed more in a certain city and less in another. But still we were together taking care of each other.
Keeping up with the travel blogger is not easy and we returned from Colombia by land, spending two days on a boat to Manaus, one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
In short, we know six cities in Colombia and two in northern Brazil. Rebecca still mended Rondônia and Acre, but the newcomer here was already without strength and was only thinking about her own bed.
From all this experience I only have two certainties, black women can do anything in this whole world and that I will use this whole world to do everything.
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Notice to passengers 2: The Barros, a black family, told their story and their project to travel by Kombi from Brazil to Hawaii
