Voices

Alicia Carroll

Alicia Carroll (they/them) is a child of Mother Earth who loves music, especially singing and drumming.        

Ana Laura Silva Vilela

É mulher de axé. Doutora em Direito, Estado e Constituição pela Universidade de Brasília e Professora do Curso de Bacharelado em Direito da Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia - Campus Barreiras

Átila Augustos dos Santos

PhD candidate in Science of Religion at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), with research fellowships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) through the IFUSS program. Holds a Master’s degree in Science of Religion and a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from the Methodist University of São Paulo (UMESP), as well as a Law degree from Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul. Pastor at Igreja da Vila and practicing attorney, working in the fields of human rights and social justice. His research and activism focus on the intersections of Gender, Blackness, Pentecostalism, and Inclusive Churches. He is the author and editor of the following works: Panorama Homoafetivo: Perspectivas Cristãs de Inclusão LGBT (editor) and Fé na Inclusão: Interseccionalidade de Gênero, Raça e Classe na Igreja Inclusiva Pentecostal (author). He is currently developing the book project The Color of the Law of Religious Racism, which explores intersectionality, religion, and the struggle against structural and religious racism in contemporary Brazil.

Barbara Nappini

Nata a Firenze il 5 settembre 1974, dal 2010 vive nella campagna della bella Valdambra, tra il Valdarno di Sopra, Siena e Arezzo. Dopo anni in una multinazionale nel mondo della moda, nel 2010 si trasferisce in un casale in campagna e si appassiona alla permacultura, si misura con l’autoproduzione e fonda l’associazione Il grano e le rose. Nel 2012 incontra Slow Food Colli Superiori del Valdarno e scopre Terra Madre: da quel momento non sarà più la stessa. Comincia occupandosi di progetti educativi e attività per adulti finché, nel 2014, col Congresso di Riva del Garda, diventa membro del Consiglio nazionale. Da luglio 2021 è presidente di Slow Food Italia, prima donna a ricoprire questo ruolo.

Bia Barbosa

Bia Barbosa is a Brazilian designer and innovation professional who navigates between structure and imagination. At one of Brazil’s largest fuel distribution companies, she develops initiatives in intrapreneurship, data strategy, and emerging technologies, bringing creativity into organizational transformation. Beyond her corporate path, she explores sustainability, tarot, and writing, weaving personal reflections into collective futures.

Christine Dianne Guiyangco

Christine Dianne Guiyangco is an artist and scholar whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance, comics, video, and writing. Her practice converges art and theory, turning words into characters and characters into words to trace how colonial violence reverberates through diasporic life in asynchronous echoes. She uses puns, punctuations, and punchlines as strategies that resist capitalism’s mechanized temporality. Working in Comparative Literature, Globa Asias, translation, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, she reads across art, literature, and philosophy to hold witness and transformation together. She engages the comics medium as both form and method and is currently developing a new comic series that theorizes mis/translation and joke time, examining the wait and the weight of endurance as a way of attending to historical time. Guiyangco is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with emphases in Asian American Studies and Translation Theory, and holds an MFA in Studio Art with a Critical Theory emphasis from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Eleanor Smith

Eleanor Smith, Diné, is originally from T’iis Názbas, Arizona, near the Four Corners Monument in the Navajo Nation. She and her husband raised their seven children in Shiprock, New Mexico. Eleanor earned her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from the University of New Mexico in 2018, then received her Master’s in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education from Fort Lewis College in 2022. Faced with an environmentally detrimental helium extraction proposal in her hometown community of T’iis Názbas, she joined the Dooda Helium movement, then helped found the T’iis Názbas Collaborative Coalition and began working for Tó Nizhóní Ání part-time in 2022 as a Community Organizer. Outside of work, Eleanor enjoys spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren, traveling with her husband, sewing, cooking, and reading.

Jackson Hunt

Jackson Hunt is an artist working primarily in painting. Hunt’s abstract works utilize a personal archive of images to engage with slippage of memory and image construction as a material process. Combining collage, paint and mixed media, Hunt examines family histories and representation through an autoethnographic framework and proposes that a painting can contain history with or without legibility. 
Jackson Hunt (b. 1988) is a descendant of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. He was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and his work has been featured in New American Paintings. Hunt is a recipient of the 2024 In The Paint Artist Grant. He received his MFA from UC Irvine and is based in Los Angeles.

Joseph A. Coyle

Joseph Coyle is a postdoctoral research fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His book project, Until I Overflow: Queer Pentecostal Intimacies in & Beyond Brazil, examines the everyday relationalities of queer and trans Pentecostals in Brazil and those who have moved beyond its borders. It considers ordinary strategies of queer and trans Pentecostal worldmaking as key sites for imagining otherwise the intimacies and affects that shape minoritarian life.

Kaimé Guerrero Valencia

Kaimé Guerrero Valencia is a trans* nonbinary writer and scholar who was born in Quito, Ecuador, and has been living in Berlin for ten years. They studied sociology and political science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, followed by an MA in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies with a gender profile at the Free University of Berlin. They are currently completing their PhD in the Collaborative Research Center “Intervening Arts.” Their research interests include the intersections between aesthetic, political, and scientific processes in the production of alternative forms of world-making.

María P. Molano-Parrado

María P. Molano-Parrado is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, where she specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. She holds both a B.A. and an M.A. In Literature from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), with a minor in Philosophy. Her research interests intersect with ecocriticism, political ecology, literary theory, and visual studies, focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics. In the summer of 2025, she served as a curatorial fellow at El Museo del Barrio in New York City. Her scholarly contributions have been published in Revista Chilena de Literatura, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among other academic journals. In addition to her academic research, she is also a photographer and a poet.

Marília Librandi

Doctor in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from Universidade de São Paulo, Marília Librandi is an independent scholar, and writer. She taught Brazilian Literature and Culture at the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, at Stanford University, and at Princeton University. She is the author of Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2018; published in Portuguese by Relicário Edições, in 2020), A maravilhosa janela da tela poética sobre a liberdade do mundo (Numa Editora, 2023), Maranhão-Manhattan.Ensaios de Literatura Brasileira (7Letras, 2009. Her studies focus on literature, poetry, indigenous arts, and practices of listening in writing. She directs The Writing Lab (Lab Escrita Escuta), a workshop for creative, academic, and meditative writings.

Maurício Chades

Maurício Chadeds é um artista e cineasta originário de Gilbués-PI. Vive e trabalha entre o Distrito Federal, Alto Paraíso de Goiás e os Estados Unidos. Bacharel em Audiovisual e Mestre em Arte e Tecnologia pela Universidade de Brasília e Master in Fine Arts pela School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Em Brasília, participou dos coletivos Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube e NINHO – Coletivo de Pesquisa em Arte, Interatividade e Agroecologia. Seu trabalho, entre filme, instalação, escultura e performance, especula sobre futuros simbióticos, queer e anticoloniais. Criando ambientes sintrópicos e tecendo alianças multi-espécie, sua prática artística combina contação de história com agricultura restaurativa, compostagem e fungicultura. Seus trabalhos foram exibidos em festivais de cinema e exposições nacionais e internacionais, como a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, Olhar de Cinema, Queer Lisboa e FILE – Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica. Em 2019, sua primeira exposição individual, Pirâmide, Urubu, estreou na Torre de TV Digital de Brasília, projeto premiado com o Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards em 2022. Em 2023 participou da Bienal Videobrasil com Cemitério Verde, filme premiado em primeiro lugar no e-Flux Film Award. https://www.mauriciochades.com/

Nayla Ramalho

Nayla Ramalho é mãe, doutoranda pela Universidade do Sul da Califórnia (USC), no departamento de Literatura. Bacharel em Audiovisual e Mestre em Literatura pela Universidade de Brasília. Defende que pensar politicamente sobre o presente e o futuro envolve questionar como podemos aprofundar nossa compreensão do cuidado em todas as suas possíveis dimensões. A partir de seu trabalho sobre Arte Indígena Contemporânea, pensa como o conceito de imagem e a produção de imagens podem ajudar a articular outras formas de desenhar caminhos de memória pelo planeta, em um encontro entre mundos visíveis e invisíveis. https://usc.academia.edu/NaylaRamalho

Paulo Ramos

Paulo Ramos is native of no land but the womb of his mother Terezinha Ramos de Jesus (Afro-Brazilian), visual artist, performer, actor, and poet whose multidisciplinary work spans video, performance, and poetry.

Steven Byrd

Steven Eric Byrd is a professor of language studies and culture at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. He is the author of academic articles. essays, translations, children's stories, and three books: Calunga and the legacy of an African language in Brazil (University of New Mexico Press), Outras Terras: Crônicas e ensaios (Editora Sebo Vermelho), and the forthcoming Martins Pena: Selected plays from "The Brazilian Molière" (Liverpool University Press).

Suene Honorato

Suene Honorato was born in Goiânia in 1981. She holds a PhD in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas (2013). Since 2014, she has been a professor at the Literature Department of the Federal University of Ceará. In 2021, she joined the faculty of the Graduate Program in Literature at the same institution, researching indigenous literatures.

tofer Perkins

tofer Perkins is a queer poet, educator, and translator. He is a graduate of the International MFA writing program at UNLV. His most recent book is a translation of Llegada del malnacido / Undesirable Arrival  is a bilingual book Tofer translated from Spanish into English (artepoetica press, 2022). "A Love Letter to the Great Salt Lake" was published in The Salt Lake Tribune (2021). Tofer has also translated poems from French. Poems have appeared in Interim and Blanco movil. Tofer has given public readings of poems and translations throughout the US and Mexico. Tofer lives in Las Vegas and Mexico City.