Dossier Interview | SOCIO-IDENTITY DIFFERENCES IN THE DEMOCRATIC STATE: the role of anti-discrimination practices as an intersectional strategy to protect the rights of LGBTQIA+ communities in Brazil

Abstract

Aware of her responsibility as a professor in the context of defending the public, free and quality university, Antonella Galindo, the first trans professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), has dedicated her career to humanitarian issues, whether in teaching, research or extension, with particular emphasis on the visibility of themes and challenges for the construction of a more just and equitable society. where LGBTQIA+phobia has no place in the face of the values of the current Democratic Rule of Law. n addition to these challenges, there is her role in management, another example of her pioneering spirit, in the position of deputy director of the Recife Law School (FDR), since April 2023, through which she aims to strengthen UFPE's contact, particularly FDR's, with society, as well as to give due attention to the agendas of minoritized social groups. Antonella has collaborated with several lato and stricto sensu Graduate Programs in Law and related sciences, such as those of the Federal University of Paraíba, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, the Federal University of Alagoas, the University of Vale do Rio Sinos (UNISINOS) and the Autonomous University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as with national and international research groups. such as Oxford Transitional Justice Research and the Public International Law Group, both from the University of Oxford (UK). She has experience in the legal area, with an emphasis on Constitutional Law, working mainly on the following topics: constitution, constitutional principles, fundamental rights, anti-discrimination law, transitional justice, among others. In an interdisciplinary stance, it has sought to establish theoretical associations with philosophy and the general theory of law, as well as political science and the theory of the State. It is with joy and gratitude that I begin this interview, which, I hope, can serve as an inspiration for the general public, and especially for people whose non-normative subjectivities have been used to deny them access to spaces of action in the various spheres of contemporary society.