The IDAHOBIT week, International Day Against Homophobia Transphobia and Biphobia, celebrated on 17 May, represents an important moment for reflection on LGBTQI+ policies, their progress and the most urgent challenges to overcome. Particularly at a historical time like the present day, when the rights of the most vulnerable communities are being threatened by the ultra-conservative policies of the extreme-right in power, building and consolidating community ties takes on a strategic significance for collective resistance.

We recognise the growing need to create opportunities to establish dialogues between the various environments where pride policies are debated, expanded and promoted. To this end, at the second meeting of the seminar series “Between the letters: conversations about bisexualities and plurisexualities”, we have invited experts in bisexual studies and politics from the Brazilian and Spanish contexts to explore issues relating to bisexualities from a transnational perspective.

Moderation: Mafalda Esteves (CES)
 

Bio notes

Helena Motta Monaco is a PhD candidate and holds a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Anthropology (TRANSES - PPGAS/UFSC) and the Brazilian Network for Studies on Bisexuality and Monodissidence (REBIM). Her research focuses on bisexuality, with an emphasis on the Brazilian bisexual movement and digital bisexual spaces. She is the co-creator of the Bi-blioteca project, a science communication profile on Instagram dedicated to bisexualities and monodissidences.

Elisa Coll is devoted to writing, communicating, and navigating the multidisciplinary. She is the author of Nosotras vinimos tarde (2023) and Resistencia bisexual (2021), and contributed to (h)amor9 amigas (2024). She was one of the organisers of ConBivencias (Self-Managed National Conferences on Bisexuality), held in Toledo in 2022 and 2023. She wrote the foreword to Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner, for its Spanish translation. Her talks and workshops have been hosted at universities, cultural centres, and institutions. Her writing has appeared in elDiario.es, Vice, Vanity Fair, El Salto, and Filmin, and she writes a monthly column for Pikara Magazine. She is currently touring with her first theatre play, GLORIA.

Mafalda Esteves is a psychologist, associated researcher at CES-UC, and a PhD candidate funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the doctoral programme in Psychology at CIS/ISCTE-IUL, where she is developing her thesis entitled "Invisible Sexualities: Intimate Citizenship and Psychosocial Well-being in Bisexuality". She holds a Master’s degree in Psychosocial Research and Intervention from the University of Barcelona. Her work has focused on critical approaches in Social Psychology, bi+ identities, sexual and gender diversity in childhood, community approaches to health and well-being, collective action, and public participation. She is currently part of the coordination teams of the Sexualities Research Group (GPS CES), the Health for All Research Group (CIS/ISCTE-IUL), and the SHARP Talks - Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (CES-UC). Her most recent publications in the field of bisexual studies include "Bisexual Citizenship in Portugal" (2022) and “At the Fringes of Pride Politics: Experiences of Bisexual and LGBTQ+ Chronically Ill People in Portugal” (co-authored with Mara Pieri).

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