Articles by: Horacio F. Sívori and Bruno Zilli

Horacio F. Sívori is associate professor at the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro (IMS/UERJ), and chair of the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights. He is a social anthropologist (M.A. and PhD), with research on HIV and LGBTQ legal activism, moral conservatism and sexual rights, and digital activism. Besides regular topic seminars, he teaches the core track on social science methodology at the Graduate Program in Collective Health at IMS/UERJ.

07-Apr-2022

Covid-19, Homophobia and the Bolsonarista Vernacular

Abstract: For the greater part of the 2010s and after the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president in 2018, Brazilian social media became an increasingly fertile ground for the exercise of public violence associated with political campaigning, often marked by gender, sexuality, class and race. As political tension increased with the outbreak of the Covid-19 […]