Carmo G. Pereira is a gender non-conforming trans person who uses he/him and neutral pronouns. He is white, 40 years old, and attended higher education without financial aid. He has lived with chronic pain and an invisible disability since 2010 and is neurodivergent. In 2008, he created a Portuguese project related to sexuality, and since 2011 he has been offering erotic counseling, workshops, training sessions, film screenings, and events. Since 2015, he has provided non-therapeutic private counseling, open to all people and couples or other relational formats (with two or more people) of any sexual orientation, attraction, or relational identity, and all gender identities. In addition to his work in sexuality, he is part of the OUTSIDE IN project, a European Union initiative supported by Erasmus+ for training trainers against hate speech. He has been engaged in community education on care, hate speech, community building, awareness, and pleasure since 2017. He holds academic qualifications in communication sciences, gender studies, and sexology, and is currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Human Sexuality at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto. He is part of a community peer network and participates in various forms of activism whenever possible.
Sónia Matos, a Portuguese Roma woman, is a sociocultural mediator, founder, and board member of the Association for the Development of Portuguese Roma Women (AMUCIP), based in Seixal. She has been working for 20 years to extend the educational paths of Roma communities. A former educational assistant in a primary school, she accompanies various groups of women in their training and empowerment while completing her degree in Social Education.
Virginia Fróis. I was born in a village near a rock salt well. I began my craft in Sculpture at ESBAL in the year of the revolution. I taught at FBAL from 1991 to 2021. I founded Oficina da Criança in Santarém in 1976 and in Montemor-o-Novo in 1981; Oficinas do Convento in 1996; Centro de Artes e Ofícios de Trás di Munti in Cape Verde in 2009. Creating and learning with others to make simple things with what is available. The programming sought to connect ideas, people, and places, creating networks or maps and new possibilities for encounters. I dig clay in the Montado in the Monfurado mountains and on Santa Maria Island. I am searching for shelter between the land and the sea, islands."
Inês Barbosa holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education (UM, 2016) and a postgraduate degree in Performance (FBAUP, 2017). She has combined sociological research with artistic practice and socio-educational intervention. Her research focuses on protest movements for housing rights, using visual ethnography and participatory methodologies. Within this theme, she has worked with Theatre of the Oppressed, founded the photographic archive project (A)Briga, and organized exhibitions and film series at the Galeria Geraldes da Silva (2021), CCOP (2021), and the Portuguese Center of Photography (2022).
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