The Gender Workshop Series XVI closing session will debate the present and future of queer studies, drawing on the work of Leandro Colling, interviewed by Rita Alcaire.

Bio notes

Leandro Colling holds a PhD in Contemporary Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia. He is a full professor at the Professor Milton Santos Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (IHAC) and a permanent lecturer on the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Culture and Society (Post-culture) at the Federal University of Bahia. He is one of the founders and coordinators of the Centre for Research and Outreach in Cultures, Genders and Sexualities (NuCuS) and one of the founders and editors of the academic journal Periódicus. He is the author of the books A vontade de expor - arte, gênero e sexualidade, Gênero e sexualidade na atualidade and Que os outros sejam o normal: tensões entre movimento LGBT e ativismo queer (translated and published in 2019 in Spain by Egales Publishing), and the editor of the books Stonewall 40 + o que no Brasil?, Estudos e políticas do CUS, Dissidências sexuais e de gênero e Artivismos das dissidências sexuais e de gênero, all published by the Federal University of Bahia Press, and The Arte da resistência, published by Devires.

Rita Alcaire (CES) | Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She is developing a post-doctoral project entitled ENGAGE - Promoting gender equality and social justice through social science communication and transmedia storytelling. Researcher in the UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2023-2026) project. She integrates the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Research Group, the Research Group on Sexualities, and the Citizen Science and Education Working Group. With more than two decades of experience using audiovisual methodologies and arts-based research, her research interests centre on the study of gender and sexualities, mental health, and pop culture and on expanding the relationship between theory and practice of science communication and social sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (CES/III, 2019), Master in Cultural Psychiatry (FMUC, 2011). Has been part of national (Ouvir Vozes, MyGender, Equal.STEAM) and European (CILIA LGBTQI+, KINDER and REMO) projects as a researcher and consultant, invited lecturer at the MA and Ph.D. level in (mental) health, media and communication and contemporary studies, organized advanced training for postgraduate students and early career researchers on mental health in academia and social science communication and promoted outreach activities for different non-academic audiences.