Vi Grunvald is a queer/bixa, anthropologist, filmmaker and artist of the Revolta da Lâmpada collective. Lecturer at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil, where he coordinates the Visual Anthropology Hub (Navisual) and is part of the Anthropology and Citizenship Hub. He has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, with an emphasis on Visual Anthropology, Politics, Art, Performance, Gender and Sexuality. He has also studied directing at the International Film Academy. He coordinates the Recognition in Artistic/Audio-visual Universes Group (UFRJ-UFRGS) and researches within the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI), of the Anthropology, Performance and Drama Hub (NAPEDRA), of the Social Markers of Difference Hub (NUMAS) and Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM), all linked to the University of São Paulo.

He is a member of the Visual Anthropology Committee of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (2019-2022) and chair of the Pierre Verger Prize of the same institution (2021-2022). In recent years he has taught a series of workshops and courses on film, documentary film, art and issues related to gender, sexuality and queer/cuir theory. Currently, in collaboration with the artist Paulo Mendel, he develops artistic-anthropological research with Stronger Family (www.familiastronger.com), reflecting on issues related to family, kinship, the city and social markers of difference.

His film Domingo has won the Margot Dias and Benjamin Pereira Award for Ethnographic Film awarded by the Portuguese Anthropology Association (APA) in 2019 and the Medium and Short-Length Film Award given by the National Association for Postgraduate and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS-Brazil) in 2020

Pronouns: She/Her/They/Them. Alex has a degree in psychology, has studied gender issues and holds a master degree in clinical psychology. She has researched and carried out intervention programmes on different forms of gender-based violence in primary, secondary and higher education, and across several institutions.

In 2018 and 2019, she worked as consultant for the Peruvian Congressional Investigative Commission on sexual abuse against minors in institutions. She was in charge of investigating cases within religious and educational institutions, working with victims and proposing recommendations to improve protocols for public and private care in cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents. Since 2017, she has been part of the Asociación Más Igualdad Perú, as Project and Research Coordinator, and since 2019 as Executive Director.

Más Igualdad Perú (More Equality Peru) is an intersectional feminist organization that works to advance the visibility and rights of LGBTIQ+ people. Within this organisation Alex leads a mental health project, which has enabled Más Igualdad Perú to publish a book/study that gathers testimonials and statistical data about the mental health situation of Peruvian LGBTQ+ people. Más Igualdad Perú has also created a Directory of Affirmative Mental Health Professionals and collaborated on drafting a bill to prohibit conversion practices in Peru.

She is currently a partner of Stonewall UK, which finances the mental health project, and is also writing a book for the Bicentennial Project about Peru’s LGBITQ+ population

She studied piano and ethnomusicology at the Manuel de Falla Music Conservatory. She has a master degree in Communication and Culture and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She conducts social research on music for CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) and works at the Gino Germani Research Institute. She lectures on the degree in Communication Sciences at University of Buenos Aires and at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory, where she previously coordinated the degree in Ethnomusicology.

Her studies address theoretical and methodological frameworks of cultural studies, gender and sexuality theories, and feminist activism. In 2018 she published the book Between Genders and Sexualities. Tango, dance and popular culture and she participated in drafting the Female Quota Law and Access of Female Artists to Musical Events, adopted in November 2019 (L.27.539).

She was president of the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music in Latin America (IASPM-AL), 2018-2020

Visual Artist with a degree in Art from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. He also holds a master’s degree in History of Peruvian and Latin American Art from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.

Solo exhibitions in Helsinki, Finland (“Danger Zone” at Stoa Gallery in 2012), in Lima (“Contrapoder” in Pancho Fierro Gallery and “Art = Life, Life = Politics, Politics = Ethics. Mr. Miyagui Strikes Back from Hell” at the cultural centre El Averno in 2002, “From within” at the 80m2 Gallery in 2006, “Alert/Love” in 2010 and “Manifesto” in 2015, both at the Euroidiomas Foundation, “Tinkuy Cósmico” at the IPCNA Gallery in Miraflores and “By hand and without permission. Anthological exhibition 2000-2018” at the Winternitz Room of the FAD-PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, both in 2018), in Cusco (“Poetics of resistance” at the gallery of the Escuela Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes Diego Quispe Tito in 2006) and in Chiclayo (“Dialogue codes” at the INC Gallery in 2007).

Invited as a “Human Rights Advocacy Fellow-in-Residence” by Trinity College (Connecticut, 2015) and for programmes at the University of Washington (Seattle, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019). His works and texts have been published in several countries: Peru, Chile, Argentina, Holland, Finland and the United States. He was a member of the Aguaitones Collective (1998-2001), the Foro de la Cultura Solidaria (2004-2009) and the Muralist Brigade (2008-2019). He currently participates in projects at El Averno Cultural Centre and Itinerant Museum of Art for Memory (National Award for Arts and Sciences in favour of Human Rights 2012 and the Prince Claus Award 2014 )

Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of the master’s degree in Gender and Development at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru. Doctor in Collective Health (Institute of Social Medicine - Rio de Janeiro State University), Master of Development Studies with a mention in Gender (Institute of Social Studies the Hague - Erasmus University) and Bachelor of Anthropology (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru).

She works as a university lecturer and researcher with a focus on health, gender, sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights, and interculturality. She is also a feminist activist. Her latest book is “The Biology of Hate. Fundamentalist rhetoric’s and other gender violences.” (La biología del odio. Retóricas fundamentalistas y otras violencias de género.