Programme

Session 1 - 14 May 2026, 17:00, Room 2, CES-Alta
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
Chapter: “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”

Introduction
Audre Lorde is a Black woman, feminist, poet, lesbian, mother and teacher. An activist and thinker. Her essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” is one of the most important elements of Lorde’s thought, constantly proposing possible paths forward. Deeply rooted in the experience of being outside what she called the “mythical norm” - white, heterosexual and thin - the thinker proposes understanding the erotic as power and a source of information.

Guests’ Bio notes
Ana Doroteia Santos Dias - Non-binary, from Northern Brazil. Historian (UFPA). Master’s graduate and PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (PPGNEIM-UFBA/CES-UC). Researcher on gender-based violence, intersectionality and Affective Practices.

Ronna Freitas de Oliveira - Brazilian transvestite, transdisciplinary artist and researcher. PhD candidate in Literature (UFPR - Brazil/FLUC- Portugal), with artistic and academic work grounded in trans epistemologies, language and trans-Brazilian memory.

Session 2 - 18 June 2026, 17:00, Room 2, CES-Alta
Não vão nos matar agora [They won’t kill us now] - Jota Mombaça
Chapters: "Na quebra juntas" and "Rumo a uma redistribuição desobediente de gênero e anticolonial da violência". [Together in the breakage and Towards a disobedient gender and anti-colonial redistribution of violence].

Introduction
Jota Mombaça is a Brazilian author and visual artist who explores themes such as monstrosity, humanity, queer studies, diaspora, violence, and anti-colonial justice. Situated within the tensions between art and politics, her work offers critical reflections from a perspective of the Global South. In Não vão nos matar agora, the author transforms writing into a space for experimentation and resistance, using words and the body as instruments of combat and the creation of new meanings. By addressing marginalised and surveilled bodies, Mombaça affirms her resilience in the face of attempts at control and erasure through a body of work that proposes the reinvention of her own existence.