Curriculum Vitae
Vera Inês Costa da Silva
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
- uc2001100458@student.uc.pt (Professional)
- 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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Anthropology Phd (Doutoramento)
Major in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Gender configurations in female prisons: permanences, continuities and variations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008/10 - 2011/09
Concluded
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Anthropology (Master) (Mestrado)
Major in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Control and punishment: women's prisons. Exploratory study of a feminist anthropology of prisons in the Portuguese context" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
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2008
Concluded
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Antropology (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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| 2012 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
| 2017/10/01 - 2024/05/13 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/03 - Current | Monitoring Prison Systems European Network | European Prison Observatory, Italy |
| 2012 - 2023 | International feminist network | World March of Women, Portugal |
| World March of Women, Portugal | ||
| 2020/12 - 2022/05 | Human Rights of Prisoners Portuguese Network | REDE Entregrades, Portugal |
| 2014 - 2020 | Theater | Teatro de Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra (Theater of students from the University of Coimbra), Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
| 2011 - 2017 | Feminist 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 | 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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| 2013 - 2014 | Puppets of Orada – PIMTAÍ
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Researcher
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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
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Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2024/07 - 2025/01 | 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
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Researcher
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| 2015 - 2016 | 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 | 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
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/11/06 | Interact – Intersectional approach to combating homelessness for women | É UM CONGRESSO Housing First & Harm Reduction
Fundação Caloustre Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2025/07/16 | ‘I walk well alone, but better with you’ – In search of the feminist legacy in anthropology for an ethnography of prison | IX Congress of the Portuguese Anthropology Association
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
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| 2025/02/03 | Between Prison and Academia – Ethnographic Practices for the Abolition of Carcerality | AntropoWeek 2025
Anthropology Student Association - Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/13 | Voices from Within an anti-carceral colective - Women and Prison (in Health through a gender lens - roundtable) | 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 | Feminist Ethnography in Action on Gender Configurations in Prison Regimes | 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 | Bentham's Panopticon and the Entangled Care in Prison | 2nd IEF International Colloquium Roads to Care
Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos da Universidade de Coimbra (Institute of Philosophical Studies, University of Coimbra) (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/07/13 | Care, City, and Prison | 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 | 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 | 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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| 2020/10/16 | The Prison of Gender and the Gender of Prison. A Feminist Ethnography on Gender Configurations in Prison Regimes | 2nd International Symposium on Gender and Prison Culture: Is Prison Democratic?
Universidade de Coimbra (University of Coimbra) (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2020/05/19 | Prisons in Portugal During the Pandemic | 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 | Gender Configurations and the social reproduction of prison |
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/10/31 | Ethnography Inside and Outside of Prison: Redefining the Research Object in Dialogue with Ethnographic Experience | The Prison Made (in) the Present: Spaces-Times, Relations, and Flows
CRIA - Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2019/10/10 | Feminism and Abolitionism: Conversation with the Lua Negra Editorial Collective + Artistic Installation with the Zines | 3rd Meeting of Anthropology PhD Students at ISCTE
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/05/02 | 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 | The Insurgents: Women's Resistance and Struggles in the Prisons of the Estado Novo | International Colloquium ‘Women: Everyday Resistance, Clandestinity and Armed Struggle’
Instituto de História Contemporânea – FCSH/NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016/06/30 | Discourses and Practices in Intervention Systems and the Voices of Survivors: Cultural Encounters in the Intervention on Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation |
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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| 2024/06 - 2024/08/17 | Public conversation on “abolitionist ecologies” organised through the abolitionist collective Voices from Within, in collaboration
with the Other Ways to Care collective at the Barroso Defence Camp - a grassroots gathering opposing mining projects in Barroso
and mobilising for the defence of land and water. The session created a space for collective reflection and exchange, bridging
feminist abolitionist perspectives on extractivism, care and justice with place-based resistance and collective organising. (2024/08/17 - 2024/08/17)
Other (Co-organisor)
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| 2021/12/02 - 2021/12/03 | 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 | 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 | 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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| 2025/10/13 - 2025/10/19 | Workshop “Practices for Freedom and Poetic Justices” in Casa do Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon. Theoretical–practical laboratory
(25h) exploring intersections between artistic experience (dance and movement), Gestalt psychotherapy, and restorative justice
practices, led by Catarina Câmara. SILVESTRE — Dance & Performing Arts Encounters, organised by Ordem do Ó Cultural Association
Workshop
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Practices for Freedom and Poetic Justices - Theoretical–practical Dance laboratory |
| 2025/09/01 - 2025/09/06 | “Audible Movement, Visible Sound” in Corpodehoje Studio, Loulé. Intensive improvisation and performance laboratory (35h) for
artists and community, directed by Mark Tompkins and Nuno Rebelo, focused on movement–sound relations, performative listening,
and collective composition practices. Organised by Corpo De Hoje Cultural Assotiation
Workshop
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Audible Movement, Visible Sound - performance workshop |
| 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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| 2019/07/11 - 2019/07/14 | Workshop “Body Ressonance” with Yumiko Yoshioka.
Workshop
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Body Ressonance, Butoh Workshop
Escola da Noite , Portugal
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| 2018/01 - 2018/06 | NI.BUTOH – Ni Teatro Ni Dança with Matilde Javier Círia (2h weekly butoh trainning classes) | NI.BUTOH – Ni Teatro Ni Dança
Escola da Noite , Portugal
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| 2017/08/04 - 2017/08/13 | Alma Negra Festival de butoh ibérico in Águeda, Portugal
Intensive butoh trainning camp.
https://almanegrafbi.com/edicion-40o/
Festival
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Alma Negra Edición 40º
AgitLab collaboratory for agitated art experiences, Portugal
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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 | TEUC - Theater of students of the university of Coimbra, associate member; light designer; and light and sound technician; producer and actress/dancer trainning | Sócia efetiva, iluminadora, técnica de luz e som, produtora e atriz/bailarina (associate member, light designer, producer and actress/dancer |
| 2012 - 2017 | UMAR - Feminist NGO - 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 (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 | RUC - Coimbra University Radio. 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) |
| 2001 - 2011 | República das Marias do Loureiro (student community house): 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 within civil society. | Resident and community organiser |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 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 |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/12/04 - 2025/12/04 | Anthropology and Feminisms: Gender, Culture and Ethnography | Ethnography and fieldwork (Mestrado) | University of Coimbra Department of Botanics, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2021/01/18 | 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) |