Violence against the LGBTQIA+ population is a topic of debate in a Decom project

This Wednesday (01/07), from 4pm to 6pm, on the Google Meet platform (https://meet.google.com/cif-dpbd-gjq) another meeting of the project DIALOGICAL ENCOUNTERS: LIVES AND VOICES THAT MATTER will be held, with the theme “The LGBTQIA+ population and the resurgence of inequalities and discrimination in the pandemic”. In total, there will be ten opportunities to contribute to the process of confronting intensified rights violations in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic. The meetings are open to audiences internal and external to the university.
This week, the guests are: Rebecka de França, Work and Inclusion Coordinator of the National Network of Trans People in Brazil (Rede Trans) and master's student in Geography teaching at IFRN; Carlos Diego Peixoto de Souza, commissioner of the Civil Police of Pernambuco, vice-president of the National Network of LGBTI+ Public Security Operators (Renosp-LGBTI+); Talitta Cancio, graduating in Social Communication (Decom/UFRN) and bisexual activist.
At each weekly meeting, from June to August, we will discuss, with representatives of civil society and the justice system, about populations, communities, territories and groups in situations of vulnerability and hypervulnerability. The focus of the discussions are the threats to health accompanied by the intensification of historical violence against their most basic human rights, such as the right to life, water, food, education, culture, housing, land, work, freedom of expression and communication.
Therefore, the choice to hold the Dialogical Meetings: Lives and Voices that Matter arises amid the worsening of human rights violations on the American continent. The pandemic has exposed, as never before, the colonial wound of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, sexual and communicational discrimination and inequalities. The chosen themes aim, in the same way, to contribute to the production of critical knowledge about an America marked by the blood of black and indigenous bodies, about a concept of humanity built from the oppression and exploitation of peripheral/southern peoples of the world; and about an experience of “communication” forged in imposed silences and invisibilities.
The project DIALOGICAL ENCOUNTERS: LIVES AND VOICES THAT MATTER, coordinated by professors and researchers Aline Lucena and Patrícia Paixão, consists of an extension action by the Department of Social Communication (Decom), integrated with the activities of the Latin American Observatory of Communication, Media and Human Rights (Amaru), of the research group Epistemologies and Transformative Practices in Communication, Media and Culture (Ecomsul), of the study group Subaltern Epistemologies in Communication (DesCom) and with the participation of students from the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPgEM). This action aims to contribute to the process of confronting inequalities and discrimination that have increased in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic.