Publications & Paper Presentations
This knot in my neck: Reflections on doctoral study in the search for feminist visual potencia
European Journal of Women’s Studies
2026. Sage Publications.
This article considers the embodied and subjective experience of undertaking research on feminicide. It uses first-hand accounts to explore the affective dimensions of a doctoral research project focused on searching for feminist visual potencia. Through a reflective feminist approach, it brings to the forefront the challenges that face doctoral research when working on violent topics.
Profusion of Colors, Monochromatic Fear
Co-authored book chapter in Give Peace a Chance: Local Experiences for Global Challenges
2026. Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter explores the articulation of fear around the urban peripheries in Rio de Janeiro. Through a decolonial lens it challenges the construction of narratives around creative and cultural practices from the urban peripheries from funk to bate bola.
Searching for Feminist Visual Potencia
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2026. Doctoral Thesis.
The doctoral thesis develops the concept of Feminist Visual Potencia exploring creative and performative feminist actions in relation to feminicide in Latin America. Case studies centre on the 8M movement in Mexico, the proliferation of images of Marielle Franco in Brazil and transversal image-making practices around the panuelo and capucha across the region.
Un grito de potencia desde las periferias: Bate bola y Marielle Franco
Decentralizados
2024. Media Article.
This article looks at the potencia from the peripheries in Rio de Janeiro focusing on the bate bola group Turma Vigaristas 2024 carnival theme forward calls for justice for Marielle Franco.
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative:
An ethics of interconnectedness
2021. Paper presentation at the Lisbon Consortium.
This paper considers the ethical and healing dimensions of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative. It looks at the visual reimagining of Coyolxauhqui as a way of articulating a plurality of feminisms and decolonial perspectives.
Power in the Peripheries: Arts, cultures of equality and southern perspectives
Co-authored book chapter in Theorising Cultures of Equality.
2020. Routledge.
This chapter departs from a decolonial approach, centring southern theories to understand the potential of arts and culture as a means to analyse urban peripheries in Rio de Janeiro as a space of potencia.
Masculinities and nonviolence in contexts of chronic urban violence
Co-authored journal article.
2020. International Development Planning Review
This article analyses violent and nonviolent male life trajectories in contexts of chronic urban violence, exploring how masculinities and gendered socialisation influence the perpetration of violence in cities of the global South.
Community perceptions of transactional sex with children and adolescent girls, a qualitative study in favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Co-authored journal article.
2020. Global Public Health
This qualitative study focuses on age-disparate transactional sex (ATS) in urban favela communities of Rio de Janeiro between adult men (over 18) and girls and adolescents (G/A) (under 18), involving a minimum 5-year age disparity.
Peripheries of Potential: Slam poetry and gender equality in Rio de Janeiro
Co-authored paper presentation.
2017. British International Studies Association
This paper considers the potencia of slam poetry in advancing gender equality in the urban peripheries of Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil’s proposed policies will hurt women’s equality and be bad for men, too
Co-authored op-ed.
2016. The Conversation
This articles questions proposed policy changes in Brazil and their gendered impacts.
Punishment wins over prevention in Brazil
Co-authored op-ed
2016. New America
This paper considers the potencia of slam poetry in advancing gender equality in the urban peripheries of Rio de Janeiro.