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“Stories to remember what we cannot forget” by Ana Cristina Santos and Joana Brilhante at P3

“All my life I was alone. Me and Jesus, of course, because religion was the only support I had.”

With these words, Alice (a pseudonym) opens one of the life stories collected by the European Research Council-funded project TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time. This five-year research, hosted at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra listened to the stories of older LGBTQI+ people in Southern Europe — not just to document their past, but to understand what kind of future we are building.

This opinion article by Ana Cristina Santos (TRACE Principal Investigator) and Joana Brilhante (TRACE Postdoctoral Researcher), published as an opinion article on Público’s P3 platform, reminds us of the importance of these stories, and that love, dignity, and justice must include everyone — truly everyone.

Read the full piece here [in Portuguese]: https://saladeimprensa.ces.uc.pt/index.php?col=opiniao&id=48175