Program (Local time – Brasília/Brazil)

Geni Núñez

Guarani Indigenous activist, writer, and psychologist. Holds a PhD from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences at UFSC and a Master’s degree in Social Psychology. Completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP. She is a member of the Human Rights Commission (CDH) of the Federal Council of Psychology (CFP) and of the Brazilian Network of Indigenous Psychologists (ABIPSI). She is also a co-assistant of the Guarani Yvyrupa Commission (CGY). Author of the books Descolonizando afetos: experimentações sobre outras formas de amar (2023) and Felizes por enquanto (2024), published by Planeta.

Pablo Pérez Navarro

Professor of Philosophy at the University of La Laguna and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. His work focuses on the normative frameworks of contemporary sexuality from a feminist and queer perspective. He has been a visiting professor in Gender Studies at UFMG and a visiting researcher at UFBA. Author of Orden y peligro. Por una deslocalización queer (Bellaterra, 2023).

Daniel Cardoso

Daniel Cardoso (they/them), PhD, holds a Doctorate in Communication Sciences from the Nova University of Lisbon and is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal, as well as an Auxiliary Invited Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon. Their main research areas are consensual non-monogamies, BDSM, gender and sexualities, youth and new media, and cybercultures. Their work can be viewed at http://www.danielscardoso.net.

Antonio Cerdeira Pilão

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Antonio is a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is a member of the CISG (Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities, and Genders) Research Group. He is currently participating in the research project “Families and Kinship at the Margins of the State: Consensual Non-Monogamies and Multi-Parenting in the UK and Brazil” (FAKIM-CNM), funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee Program. He coordinates the Politics, Affections, and Non-Monogamous Sexualities Research Group (CNPq Directory) and is a member of the International Commission on Global Feminisms and Queer Politics of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).

Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff

With over 25 years of research on consensual non-monogamies, Dr. Eli Sheff is the leading academic expert on polyamorous families with children. She holds a PhD in Sociology, is a certified Sexuality Educator, and has authored four books and over 30 academic articles on consensual non-monogamy (CNM) and BDSM/kink.

Igor Alves Pinto

Currently a PIPD-UFRJ post-doc fellow at PPGD. He holds a PhD in Law (2023) from the Law Graduate Program (PPGD) at UFRJ, with a focus on “Theories of decision and interpretation and justice.” He earned his Master’s degree (2015) in the “Human Rights, Society, and Art” track of the PPGD – UFRJ. He graduated (2012) in Law from UFRJ. He has academic experience in the areas of Civil Law, Human Rights, Legal Anthropology, and Criminology. He conducts research in Civil Law, with an emphasis on studies based on empirical research and analysis of court decisions. He was a substitute professor of Civil Law at the National Law School – UFRJ (2019-2021). He is a Consulting Member of the Special Commission on Civil Law of the National OAB (2020 onward) and a member of IBDFAM (2020 onward). He was part of the Editorial Team of the Revista de Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea (2021-2022) and is a reviewer for the Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia and the Revista da Academia Brasileira de Direito Civil. He is the author of the book O Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais do Rio de Janeiro e sua luta por justiça: O que lutar quer dizer? (2022).

Christian Klesse

Christian Klesse is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-leader of the Contemporary Intimacies, Genders and Sexualities (CISG) research group. He is also the coordinator of the Sexualities research network (RN23) of the European Sociological Association. His research interests span the fields of gender and sexuality politics, consensual non-monogamy (CNM) and polyamory, transnational LGBTQIA+ activism, queer diaspora studies, and queer film festivals. His work is interdisciplinary and often collaborative. He is the author of the book The Spectre of Promiscuity: Gay Male and Bisexual Non-Monogamies and Polyamories (Ashgate, 2007). He recently co-authored the articles: “Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism” (Political Geography, 2025, with Jon Binnie) and “Beyond equality—non-monogamy and the necropolitics of marriage” (Social Sciences, 2025, with Daniel Cardoso). He is currently working on two CNM-related monographs, one on queer kinship and political economy, and another on CNM activism in Europe (the latter in collaboration with Daniel Cardoso).

Rhuann Fernandes

Rhuann Fernandes is a PhD student and holds a Master’s degree (2022) in Social Sciences. He is a researcher at the Youth Productive Inclusion Laboratory of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (LINC-FGV). Currently, he dedicates himself to the following topics: culture, subjectivity, and emotions; contemporary romantic relationships and marital arrangements; racial relations and identity; gender and sexuality; neoliberalism and the labor market. In dialogue with these subjects, he has published more than 30 scientific articles and 3 books: Casamento bantu: lobolo e outras experiências conjugais em Moçambique; Negritude e não monogamia: as micropolíticas do amor; and Não monogamia: trânsitos entre raça, gênero e sexualidade.

Renato Noguera

Renato Noguera has a griot (griô) family background, holds a PhD in Philosophy, is a professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), and serves as a celebrant of loving unions. He coordinates the research project “Ethics of Loving: Couples, Affective Politics, and Intersectionalities between Gender, Race, and Class.” Noguera has published, among other books: “A, B, C of Love: What Poetry and Philosophy Have to Say About Affection” (2025) and “Why We Love: What Myths and Philosophy Have to Say About Love” (2020).

Zamambo Mkhize

Dr Zamambo Mkhize is a lecturer in African Feminist Studies at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. She did her undergraduate degree at Florida A&M University on a full tennis scholarship before undertaking her Honours in Criminology and Master’s in Gender Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Zamambo did part of her PhD in Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar, and she did her postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity at UKZN. Zamambo’s research focuses on modern polygyny, law, family, Zulu culture, African feminism. She just published her first book titled, Polygyny and Gender released in September 2021, by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. Zamambo research focus is also on African women in high-stakes degrees such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and has written numerous articles around this topic, which have been published in high impact international and local academic journals. Zamambo founded the African STEMinist foundation, which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring and advancing African women in the STEM fields. Zamambo is an activist, academic and avid tennis player. Zamambo is an activist, academic and avid tennis player who as a junior tennis player represented her province KwaZulu-Natal in many interprovincial tournaments that they always won and has represented South Africa in many international junior tennis tournaments. Zamambo now plays tennis for her local club and she remains unbeaten in her league matches.

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

For over 30 years, Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM has been an academic, author, activist and ally in the intersections of cultural diversity, gender and sexual diversity, relationship and family diversity. She is considered to be the first Australian to research and publish about polyamory, consensual non-monogamy and bisexuality, beginning in 1992. An Honorary Fellow at Deakin University and with her consultancy, GSE Tapestry Consulting, Maria espouses decolonising research and writing, training and advocacy that are empowering and capacity-building for the communities and organisations she works for and with, and creating respectful and dynamic collaborative approaches. Maria’s current research is with First Peoples of Australia with Southern European heritage, exploring the contestations and connections between colonialism, racism and multiculturalism. Apart from journal articles, her publications include research and narrative on Non- Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies: Love You Two (2008 Lambda Literary Award); Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools (2011 Lambda Literary Award); Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion by Inclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality (2016 USA Bisexual Book Award); and Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women (2017 shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award).

Norma Mogrovejo

I was born in a Quechua town at about 4,000 meters above sea level, where I learned the culture of whiteness in a school run by German nuns. At 14, my family migrated to Arequipa, a conservative city where I became a feminist and also a lesbian. At 28, I sexiled myself to Mexico because women could not find safe ways to live outside heterosexuality. In Mexico, I found a reference community where I live my lesbian body with enthusiasm. I am a Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, where I work with my dialogic peers to reflect on the civilizational models that have imposed bodies, thought, obedience, and the ways of building strategic communities outside the mandates of state/nation/heterosexuality/class/race. I have published several books about the lesbian movement in Abya Yala: Un amor que se atrevió a decir su nombre. La lucha de las lesbianas y su relación con el movimiento homosexual y feminista en América Latina; and Insilio. La cárcel del silencio. Invisibilidad lesbiana y resistencia, among others.

Camila Ribeiro

PhD in progress in the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Brasília (UnB). Master’s degree in Communication and Society from the Graduate Program in Communication and Society at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT). Lato sensu postgraduate degree in Ethics and the Teaching of Philosophy from UFT. Specialization in Jungian Analytical Psychology from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Universidade Paulista (Campinas–SP). Professional experience in clinical and social psychology practice, working with an approach grounded in Analytical Psychology and the Theory of Subjectivity (2017–present). Adjunct lecturer in the Psychology program at UFT, Miracema do Tocantins campus (2023–2024). Research member of the research groups “Politics, Affects, and Non-Monogamous Sexualities” (CNPq) and “Theory of Subjectivity, Education, and Health” (UnB/CNPq). Associate member of the Interamerican Society of Psychology. Research interests and work focus mainly on the following themes: communication; emotions; genders and sexualities; monogamy, polyamory and non-monogamies; performance art; symbolic systems; subjectivities; queerness; ecology; and de/anti-counter-coloniality.

Sérgio Luis Carrara

Sérgio Carrara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Campinas (1982), and a Master’s (1987) and PhD (1995) in Social Anthropology from the National Museum / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a Retired Full Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University, where he has conducted research in the field of the Anthropology of the Body and Health, working mainly on the following topics: sexuality, gender, homosexuality, human rights, and violence. He is the editor of the journal Sexualidade, Saúde e Sociedade. He is currently a researcher at the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ).