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This event Masculinities in Debate will open discussions about normative centres as referents of humanity (masculinity, whiteness, cis-heterosexuality, bourgeoisie...). The interventions will take different paths to approach a discussion about the (white) subject of the cis-heteropatriarchy. We will present a reflection on the "not being" in Fanon, the desubjectivation of the black person in Mbembe, and the implications of this subjective dehumanizing cartography in the face of some "intersectional analyses" to think, for example, the American figure of Karen. We will talk about the relations of race, gender and sexuality in media representations, in everyday racism and in public policies. In the case of public policies, we will analyse, based on interviews and documentary analysis in Portugal, how education for (sexual) citizenship has a racist dimension, and we will question how racism has a sexual pedagogy.

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Gustavo Borges Mariano | PhD student in the Human Rights in Contemporary Societies programme, volunteer as educator in the LGBTI youth association rede ex aequo. Master in Philosophy of Law and Bachelor in Law.

Júlio César Sanches | PhD in Communication and Culture by the Postgraduate Programme in Communication and Culture of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO-Pós/UFRJ). He holds a Master's degree in Communication from the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCOM/UFF) and a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). He is associate editor of the Journal Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação e Inovação em Saúde of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES/UC), working on the project POLITCS - The Politics of Antiracism in Europe and Latin America, coordinated by researcher Silvia Rodríguez Maeso.