Epistemic Dissonance & Transpoethicalbody Event

Join us for a discussion of Epistemic Dissonance and Transpoethicalbody.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 at 7:00pm at
Little District Books
631 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20003

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Epistemic Dissonance: The (R)existence of Black Travestis and Trans Women in Brazil is a much needed and truly groundbreaking anthology: it is one of the first academic publications that centers the histories and intellectual contributions of Travestis and Trans Women scholars and activists from Latin America. Through centering Brazil, Epistemic Dissonance introduces the reader to the interventions that Travestis and Trans Women are making in envisioning, (re)thinking and theorizing social change. The authors challenge their various marginalizations while living and affirming new modes of existence which encourages everyone not only to resist, but to (R)exist.

Transpoethicalbody: A Book of Black Trans Erotic Poetry is a sensorial invitation. Through its poetry, we are transported to non-normative erotic dimensions through the dissident perspective of the author. Tiely calls us to trans*verse our bodies from other perspectives, stripping ourselves of the handcuffs that inhabit our intimacy, and determine our desires. Erotic poetics that will hold your attention from start to finish.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS

Dr. Megg Rayara Gomes de Oliveira is a Black Travesti, with a degree in Drawing and a specialization in Art History from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná; a specialization in African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture from Tuiuti University of Paraná; and a master's and doctorate in Education from the Federal University of Paraná. She is an assistant professor in the Education department and a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraná. She is the coordinator of the Afro-Brazilian Studies Center at the Federal University of Paraná and the coordinator of the Affirmative Policies Commission in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraná.

Dr. Letícia Carolina Nascimento is a Black, fat, trans woman from Piauí. Daughter of Xangô and Ekedy in the terreiro-school Ilê Asê Oba Oladeji. She holds a PhD in Education from the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). She is a professor of the Pedagogy course at UFPI, Floriano-PI Campus, and a Collaborating Professor in the Graduate Program in Sociology (PPGS) at UFPI. She is the author of the book *Transfeminism*, part of the *Plural Feminisms* series coordinated by Djamila Ribeiro, translated into French under the title "Le transféminisme: genres et transidentités" by Edições Anacaona. She is a social activist and part of the national executive coordination of the National Forum of Black Transvestites and Transsexuals (FONATRANS). She is a researcher affiliated with the Center for Studies and Research in Education, Gender, and Citizenship (NEPEGECI/UFPI) and the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (APBN).

Dr. Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus is a Professor of Psychology at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is a permanent Professor Member of the Postgraduate Program in History Teaching at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PROFHISTÓRIA/UFRRJ) and the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in Bioethics, Applied Ethics, and Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (PPGBIOS/FIOCRUZ). She holds a PhD in Social Psychology of Work and Organizations from the University of Brasília (UnB) and completed her postdoctoral studies at the School of Social Sciences and History at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (CPDOC/FGV). Among other publications, she is the author and editor of the book "Transfeminism: Theories and Practices," the first book in Portuguese on the subject. She is a former president of the Brazilian Association of Trans-Homoculture Studies (ABETH). She was a visiting researcher at Duke University (USA), with whom she is developing research on the mental health of sexual and gender minorities in low- and middle-income countries. In 2024, she was awarded as an outstanding Brazilian researcher by the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT.