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In the 2022-2023 edition, the Gender Workshop proposes to continue the “Feminist Interviews” with people from different areas of intervention and work in the field of gender equality and women's dignity and wellbeing in Portugal and Spain. The interviews will allow us to map relevant work carried out in our country and in the neighbouring country, not only in the academy, in the sciences, but also in activism, the arts, care, work, trade unionism, etc. The format of an interview with an audience in attendance will allow for an initial dialogue between interviewer/interviewee and an opening for debate. The selection of interviewees and interviewers will aim at a cartography of diverse feminisms, in particular in the daily and concrete exercise of projects far from the large centres. In this session the guest is Vera Silva, interviewed by Bruna Zeni (PhD Candidate FLUC/CES).

Bio notes 

Vera Silva | Was born and lives in Coimbra. In 2001 she entered the República das Marias do Loureiro where she grew and learned the basics of communitarian and libertarian feminism, through the experience and community organization, horizontal and anti-authoritarian, between women and non-binary people, and the strong political and cultural intervention that the Marias have always had in the academy and in the city. Since then she has been dedicated to feminist struggles in various fields and collectives/organisations among which: UMAR Coimbra (2012-2016); World March of Women; Lua Negra Editorial Collective (2017-2019); and the Vozes de Dentro Collective.

Bruna Schlindwein Zeni | Woman, migrant, Latin American and hopeful realist, was born in Ijuí, lived many years in São Paulo and many years in Bologna, Italy. From there, in pandemic times, she founded the Blimunda Publishing House, a feminist and sustainable publishing laboratory, which she has been running from Coimbra, the city where she is currently living to complete her PhD in Feminist Studies. Master in social rights and public policies, she was editor of scientific journals for Thomson Reuters, university professor and social educator. Before that, she dedicated herself to theatre and dance, passions that she carries with her, together with an unshakeable belief in the power of networks and affections.