Asylum Holes: Spaces of Belonging and Difference

Dr Pako Chalkidis contributed with the book chapter “Asylum Holes: Spaces of Belonging and Difference”, to Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures (EASA Series, 53), edited by Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg, and Tunay Altay. This is the first book published by the European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA) under the umbrella of the […]
LGBTQIA+ Ageing: Listening to professionals in an institutional context

Co-authored by TRACE PI Ana Cristina Santos, first author Luís Maia, and Raquel Rodrigues, ‘LGBTQIA+ Ageing: Listening to Professionals in an Institutional Context‘ was published in May 2024 in Revista Estudos Feministas. The article benefited from insights from project TRACE, funded by the European Research Council (ERC-2021-COG, TRACE, 101044915). Publication in portuguese. space Abstract: Aging […]
Intimate Lovers, Legal Strangers —The Politics of Dissident Relationality in Portugal

The purpose of this article is to understand how state recognition contributes to the un/doing of the abject culturally attached to LGBTQ+ intimacies; and to examine personal, sociocultural, and legal traits that shape biographies turning intimate citizens into intimate lovers and/or legal strangers.
Ageing with a twist: Intimacy and care amongst LGB older adults in Portugal

This article addresses issues of care and intimacy experienced by self-identified lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people over the age of 60 both before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal.
Embodied Queer Epistemologies: A New Approach to (a Monstrous) Citizenship

In this chapter meanings attached to monstrosity are explored in light of queer critiques of the concept of citizenship. The first part of the chapter explores the notion of the monster, with a particular interest in queer readings of monstrosity. In that section, monsters will be unpacked against the backdrop of the archetype of the […]