Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Vera Inês Costa da Silva
Citation names
- Silva, Vera
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0914-17E5-0FE5
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9998-8586
Email addresses
- verainescostasilva@gmail.com (Professional)
Addresses
- Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Colégio de S. Bento, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017 - 2024/05/13
Concluded
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Antropologia (Anthropology Phd) (Doutoramento)
Major in Antropologia Social e Cultural
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Gender configurations in female prisons: permanences, continuities and variations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2021/03 - 2021/07
Concluded
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Escola Internacional para a Organização Feminista Berta Cáceres (Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organising School) (Outros)
World March of Women, Portugal
Grassroots global justice alliance, United States Grassroots International, United States Indigenous Environmental Netowork, United States |
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2018/09/11 - 2018/12/11
Concluded
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NI.BUTOH – Ni Teatro Ni Dança with Matilde Javier Círia (Course) (Outros)
Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo (Theater company), Portugal
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2014/12/08 - 2014/12/12
Concluded
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Laboratório de movimento Contemporâneo com Ana Borges e assistência de Susana Silva (Contemporary Movement Laboratory with
Ana Borges and assistance from Susana Silva) (Outros)
Corpo de hoje (cultural association), Portugal
Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra (Theater of students from the University of Coimbra), Portugal |
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2014/01 - 2014/12
Concluded
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Luz e som para artes performativas (Sound and lightning in performing arts) (Outros)
Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra (Theater of students from the University of Coimbra), Portugal
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2012/10 - 2013/10
Concluded
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Técnica de radiodifusão e produção de som (Techniques of radio broadcasting and sound production) (Outros)
Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (Radio University of Coimbra), Portugal
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2011
Concluded
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Antropologia Social e Cultural (Master) (Mestrado)
Major in Antropologia Social e Cultural
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Control and Punishment in Women's Prisons: Exploratory Study of a Feminist Anthropology of Prison in the Portuguese Context." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008
Concluded
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Antropologia (first degree) (Licenciatura)
Major in Social e Cultural
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/10/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal | ||
2012 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012 - Current | Rede feminista internacional (International feminist network) | World March of Women, Portugal |
World March of Women, Portugal | ||
2020/12 - 2022/05 | Network | REDE Entregrades, Portugal |
2014 - 2020 | Teatro (Theater) | Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra (Theater of students from the University of Coimbra), Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
2011 - 2017 | NGO | União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response), Portugal |
2012 - 2015 | Radio | Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (Radio University of Coimbra), Portugal |
2001 - 2012 | Casa comunitária feminista (Feminist community house) | República das Marias do Loureiro, Portugal |
República das Marias do Loureiro, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/10/01 - 2024/05/13 | Gender configurations in female prisons: permanences, continuities and variations
SFRH/BD/132518/2017
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2017/03/01 - 2017/08/31 | Bystanders: Developing bystander responses to sexual harassment among young people"
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género, Portugal |
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/09/01 - Current | eSefarad: modalities and practices of digital patrimonialization of the Sephardic cultural legacy in Mediterranean contexts
UID/ANT/04038/2020
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
UID/ANT/04038/2019
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2015/05/01 - 2016/09/30 | Cultural Encounters in Interventions against Violence
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género, Portugal |
Humanities in the European Research Area
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/11 - Current | The INTERACT Project. Intersectional Approach to Combating Homelessness for Women
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2024/07 - Current | CORPOEMCADEIA
Researcher
Companhia Olga Roriz (Dance Company Olga Roriz), Portugal
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Ongoing
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2021/09 - 2023/10 | 3C's Transformation Agents (Knowledge, Awareness, Empowerment)
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Researcher
CASPAE, Portugal
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Concluded
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2021/03/01 - 2022/12/31 | Children and Youth Intervention Centre - Trampolim E8G
0/0
Researcher
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2015 - 2016 | Desafiar a Violêcia Sexual na Universidade I (Challenging Sexual Violence in the University I)
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Co-coordinator, activist researcher
União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response), Portugal
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Concluded
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2013 - 2014 | Memórias e Feminismos III Desocultar quotidianos de mulheres (Memory and Feminisms New Gazes, Other voices III Uncovering
the everyday lives of women)
Coordinator and activist researcher
União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response), Portugal
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Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género
Concluded
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2012/05 - 2013/02 | In Other Words: Web Observatory Review, for Discrimination Alerts and Stereotypes Deconstruction
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União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response), Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Journal article |
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Newspaper article |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Working paper |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/12/13 | Saúde sob o olhar de género (mesa redonda) (Health through the Gender Lens (Roundtable)) | Nós, mulheres que usamos drogas, existimos! (We, Women Who Use Drugs, Exist!)
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa (Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2023/06/16 | Etnografia feminista em ação sobre as configurações de género nos regimes prisionais (Feminist Ethnography in Action on Gender Configurations in Prison Regimes) | CLAUSURAS E OS MUITOS PRISMAS DE GÉNERO. X JORNADAS DO MESTRADO EM CRIME, DIFERENÇA, DESIGUALDADE (CLAUSURES AND THE MANY
PRISMS OF GENDER. X DAYS OF THE MASTER'S PROGRAMME IN CRIME, DIFFERENCE, INEQUALITY)
CRIA - Universidade do Minho (CRIA - University of Minho) (Braga, Portugal)
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2022/10/20 | O panótico de Bentham e os cuidados enredados na prisão (Bentham's Panopticon and the Entangled Care in Prison) |
Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos da Universidade de Coimbra (Institute of Philosophical Studies, University of Coimbra) (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2022/07/13 | Cuidado, cidade e prisão (mesa redonda) (Care, City, and Prison (roundtable)) | CES Summer School: O Pluriverso da Justiça Eco-social (CES Summer School: The Pluriverse of Eco-Social Justice)
Universidade de Coimbra - Centro de Estudos Sociais (University of Coimbra - Centre for Social Studies) (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2021/10/07 | A(s) crise(s) pandémicas: mulheres em luta dentro e fora da prisão (The Pandemic(s) Crisis: Women Struggling Inside and Outside of Prison) | III Conferência Euroamericana para o Desenvolvimento dos Direitos Humanos (III Euro-American Conference for the Development
of Human Rights)
Universidade de Coimbra (University of Coimbra)
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2020/12/10 | Direitos das crianças e jovens com pai e/ou mãe em reclusão Rights of Children and Young People with a Father and/or Mother in Incarceration | WEBINAR - Ecos da Invisibilidade: direitos das crianças com pais reclusos (WEBINAR - Echoes of Invisibility: Rights of Children
with Incarcerated Parents)
Projeto Trampolim E8G (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2020/05/19 | As prisões em Portugal durante a pandemia (Prisons in Portugal During the Pandemic) | Seminário Internacional: Emergência dos Direitos Humanos no cenário pandêmico (International Seminar: The Emergence of Human
Rights in the Pandemic Scenario)
Universidade de Salvador UNIFACS (University of Salvador UNIFACS)) (Salvador, Brazil)
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2020/01/31 | Configurações de Género nos Regimes Prisionais e a Reprodução Social da Prisão |
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2019/10/31 | Etnografia dentro e fora da prisão. O refazer do objecto de investigação em diálogo com a experiência etnográfica (Ethnography Inside and Outside of Prison: Redefining the Research Object in Dialogue with Ethnographic Experience) | A Prisão feita (no) Presente: Espaços-Tempos, Relações e Fluxos (The Prison Made (in) the Present: Spaces-Times, Relations,
and Flows)
CRIA - Universidade do Minho (CRIA - University of Minho) (Braga, Portugal)
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2019/10/10 | Feminismo e Antipunitivismo instalação e conversa com o Coletivo Editorial Lua Negra + instalação artística com as Zines (Feminism and Abolitionism: Installation and Conversation with the Lua Negra Editorial Collective + Artistic Installation with the Zines) | 3º Encontro de estudantes de doutoramento Antropologia do ISCTE (3rd Meeting of Anthropology PhD Students at ISCTE
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2018/05/02 | Resistências de presas políticas durante o estado novo (Resistance of Women Political Prisoners During the Estado Novo) | Resistências no Feminino em Contextos de Violência (Feminine Resistances in Contexts of Violence)
CRIA UMinho; CICS.Nova UMinho; UICCC.ISMAI (CRIA - University of Minho et al.) (Braga, Portugal)
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2016/11/24 | As insurgentes: resistências e lutas de mulheres nas prisões do Estado Novo |
Instituto de História Contemporânea – FCSH/NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2016/06/30 | Discursos e práticas nos sistemas de intervenção e as vozes das sobreviventes. Encontros Culturais na Intervenção em Tráfico de Mulheres para Fins de Exploração Sexual |
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2021/12/02 - 2021/12/03 | Seminário Internacional Pesquisa em Prisões entre Brasil e Portugal: tráficos e trajetos interdisciplinares
(International Seminar Research on Prisons between Brazil and Portugal: Traffics and Interdisciplinary Pathways) (2021/11)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal Núcleo de Pesquisas em Aprisionamentos e Liberdades, Brazil Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas Subjetividades e Instituições em Dobras , Brazil |
2021/07 - 2021/12 | Fórum anual da REDE Entregrades
(Annual Forum of REDE Entregrades) (2021/12/10 - 2021/12/12)
Meeting
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REDE Entregrades, Portugal |
2021/04/24 - 2021/04/24 | Resistências e lutas de mulheres em conflitos armados contra as transnacionais (Webinar)
(Resistance and Struggles of Women in Armed Conflicts Against Transnational Corporations (Webinar)) (2021/04/24 - 2021/04/24)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Marcha Mundial de Mulheres, Portugal World March of Women, Portugal |
2014/07 - 2015/10/17 | Feminist Caravan 2015 active participation and organization of the 4th International Action of the WMW. The Feminist Caravan
which travel through Europe between 8th March and 17th October 2015, from east Turkey (Kurdistan) to Portugal developing support
networks, feminist actions and feminist intervention practices: meetings, conferences, marches and demonstrations, workshops,
etc concluded in Lisbon on October 15, 16, and 17, 2015, bringing together 600 women from different countries. (2015/03/08 - 2015/10/17)
Other (Co-organisor)
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World March of Women, Portugal |
2013/09/17 - 2014/01/19 | Iberian Anti-Austerity Feminist Encounter co-organization, co-facilitation and co-coordination of activities such as debates,
workshops, concerts, and a public demonstration. Engaged with feminist activists, researchers, and collectives from the Iberian
Peninsula to discuss and promote anti-austerity movements and gender equality. (2014/01/14 - 2014/01/19)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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World March of Women, Portugal União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response), Portugal República das Marias do Loureiro, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/06/23 - 2023/06/24 | Abolition Beyond Borders Collective: Racial Capitalism | Crisis | Abolition. International Movement Conference aimed to exchange
and connect all those who struggle against police violence and imprisonment, borders and deportation, patriarchal violence
and ecological destruction, exploitation and the increasing production of people as "surplus” -, in short, racial capitalism.
Conference
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Abolition Beyond Borders Collective: Racial Capitalism | Crisis | Abolition. International Movement Conference
Abolition beyond borders colelctive, Germany
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2021/03/04 - 2021/07/06 | Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School organise by Grassroots International, Indigenous Environmental Network
(IEN), and World March of Women.
https://capiremov.org/en/experience/feminist-schools-grassroots-education-for-organizing/
Other
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2013/06/07 - 2013/06/08 | Participation as UMAR delegate in Alter-Summit in Athens: movements and organizations from all over Europe attended to the
Alter Summit in Athens. This event was organized, with the Greek social movement, by civil society organizations, trade unions,
NGOs, with the support of personalities from all over Europe in response to austerity measures impacting Europe, with particular
focus on Greece. The summit featured various assemblies discussing social rights, ecology, and education
https://www.altersummit.eu/athenes/article/athens-event
Conference
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Alter-Summit (Athens, 2013) |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2020 - Current | Prison Observatory - Portugal | Investigadora colaboradora |
2012 - Current | Local and international feminist networking and portuguese delegate of the World March of Women. | Community organiser |
2012 - Current | Activist, local and international networking, community organiser and portuguese delegate of the World March of Women in international meetings, encounters and actions. | Activist, community organiser and delegate |
2020/05 - 2022/04/25 | REDE Entregrades - Collaborative Inter-Organizational Space Between NGO's, Projects, and Individuals Working in the Prison System for the human rights of people deprived of liberty | Organizer |
2014 - 2020 | Sócia efetiva e membro da direção da associação juvenil Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra, iluminadora, técnica de luz e som, produtora e atriz/bailarina. (Associate member and board member of the youth association and theater university company - Theater of students of the university of Coimbra (TEUC), light designer; and light and sound technician; producer and actress/dancer.) | Sócia efetiva, iluminadora, técnica de luz e som, produtora e atriz/bailarina (associate member, light designer, producer and actress/dancer |
2014 - 2019 | TEUC - Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra | |
2012 - 2017 | Delegada, sócia e membro da direção. Co-coordenadora e membro fundadora do núcleo da UMAR em Coimbra. Organizadora comunitária, ativista e investigadora com coordenação participativa de projectos de intervenção e eventos múltiplos com mulheres e pessoas LGBTQ. (Delegate and board member. Co-coordinator and founding member of the UMAR center in Coimbra. Community organizer, activist and researcher with participatory coordination of intervention projects and multiple events with women and LGBTQ people.) | Member associated |
2009 - 2016 | PATH (Plataforma Anti-Transfobia e Anti-Homofobia), uma rede de várias associações e grupos que organiza a Marcha Anti-Transfobia e Anti-Homofobia, realizada anualmente a 17 de maio em Coimbra, contribuindo para a defesa dos direitos LGBTQ+ e para a sensibilização sobre questões de transfobia e homofobia. PATH (Anti-Transphobia and Anti-Homophobia Platform) is a network of various associations and groups that organizes the Anti-Transphobia and Anti-Homophobia March, held annually on May 17th in Coimbra, contributing to the defense of LGBTQ+ rights | ativist and community organiser |
2013 - 2015 | Sócia ativa e técnica de radio difusão e produção de som. (Associate member and radio broadcasting and sound production technician.) | Sócia ativa e técnica de radio difusão e produção de som (associate member and radio broadcasting and sound production technician) |
2012 - 2015 | RUC - Rádio Universidade de Coimbra | Técnica de radiodifusão |
2001 - 2011 | Residente e co-organizadora comunitária, vida comunitária e doméstica numa comunidade feminista horizontal e autogerida de jovens mulheres e pessoas LGBTQ com participação ativa no movimento estudantil e em múltiplas lutas políticas, sociais e culturais com a sociedade civil. (Resident and community co-organizer, community and domestic life in a horizontal and self-managed feminist community of young women and LGBTQ people with active participation in the student movement and in multiple political, social and cultural struggles with civil society.) | Resident and community organiser |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2021/10 - Current | Consultant on the Project "Agentes de Transformação 3C'S" (Knowledge, Awareness, Empowerment), which develops a collaborative network model to give visibility, support, defend, and empower in the defense of human rights, particularly the rights of children and young people whose parents are incarcerated. | CASPAE, Portugal |
2019/06 - Current | Consultant at the Child and Youth Intervention Unit (a social intervention project for children with incarcerated parents) of the Trampolim E8G Project. | CASPAE, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2021/01/18 | Mulheres em luta pelos direitos das pessoas presas (Women in Struggle for the Rights of Incarcerated People) | Jornal MAPA |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021/03/29 - 2021/05/08 | Antropologia Portuguesa (Portuguese Anthropology) (0870-0990) |