Allan Barbosa (he - his) is 30 years old and identifies as a gay cisgender man. He is Brazilian and has lived in Portugal for over five years. He has a degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and a Master's degree in Political...

Andrea Peniche was born in Vila do Conde, in 1974. She is an editor by profession. She graduated in Philosophy and has a master's degree in Gender Studies from the University of Porto. She is an activist with the feminist collective A Coletiva, one of the organizers...

She has a degree in Communication Sciences with a specialization in Cinema and Television from the NOVA University Lisbon. She spent Erasmus+ at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and is currently studying for a master's degree in Theater - Performing Arts at the Escola Superior...

Colombian educator and researcher. She served as Colombia's Minister of Sport from 7 March 2023 until 15 February 2024 in the government of Gustavo Petro. After studying at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, she obtained a degree in Physical Education. Subsequently,...

Catarina Oliveira, 35, from Porto. She has a degree in Nutrition from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Porto and is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Disability Studies and Human Rights at ISCTE. She works as a nutritionist...

a short bio written by myself (it's almost always written by the authors themselves, just in the third person, which makes it kind of awkward) About 10 years ago, I quit an unstable job to become a full-time comedian and, therefore, even more unstable. In the...

Ethel Brooks is Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University. Brooks is a Tate-TrAIN Transnational Fellow at the University of the Arts London, where, in 2011-2012,...

Guya Accornero is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte-IUL) and a researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte). From 2018 to 2022, she coordinated the Social Movements Research...

João Teixeira Lopes has a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto (1992) a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (1995) and a PhD in Sociology of Culture and Education...

Júlia Pereira Lima (Lisbon, 1990) has a degree in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Letters/Institute of Social Sciences) and is preparing a dissertation on transfeminisms in Portugal and Brazil. As a political activist, she...

Lawyer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Specialist in Public Law and legal-political institutions. Physical Educator, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Candidate for Master in Sports Law, Universidad de Leída. With more than twenty years of experience in university...

Manuel António Pimenta, 49, pharmacist. He always wanted to own a bookshop, but ended up creating a freebookshop. It is a place that pays tribute to the word, to books and their authors, with freedom, trust and respect as the main pillars of its existence. With the...

Maria Francisca Ferreira (1999) has a degree in Psychology of Deviant Behaviour and Justice from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) and works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion.  For four...

Michel Rudy Lotrowska, born in Belgium and a naturalised Brazilian, currently resides in Almada. He grew up and lived in Belgium, where he studied economics at UCL, before moving to Brazil at the age of 30. With a degree in Economics from UCL, a master's in public...

With DJ Pedro (Pedro Gomes Ramos) Coming from the Cova da Moura neighborhood in Lisbon, Mynda Guevara carries a thirst for revolution in her name and attitude, which is closely tied to the still very minimized role of women in rap. Her rap, in Creole, as a form of...

I was born in Porto where I got my diploma in Classical Ballet by the Royal Academy of Dance and a M.A in Architecture. I was firstly introduced to the Graffiti scene in 2003, in Lisbon, through friends linked to the vanguard of the Hip Hop movement in Portugal. It...

Ricardo Campos is a principal researcher and member of the board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (CICS.Nova) and a guest lecturer in the Master's Degree in Intercultural Relations (Universidade...

Sandra Barrilaro, Bilbao 1960 Photographer, editor, and activist for the human rights of the Palestinian population. Co-author of the book Against Erasure. A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba, 1889-1948, a work that compiles photographs of Palestine...