FEMINIST ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
Conversation between Gabriela Silva Loureiro and Heloisa Buarque de Almeida
February 27, 2026
4 PM
Room 266 – Letters Building - FFLCH-USP
What emotions are present in the construction and maintenance of Brazilian feminist solidarity? What to do when expectations of emotional support clash with political divergence?
In this conversation, Gabriela Silva Loureiro discusses with Heloisa Buarque de Almeida her book Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South: On Building Solidarity (Routledge, 2025).
The book examines these issues through interviews and discourse analysis of the Brazilian hashtags #PrimeiroAssédio and #MeuAmigoSecreto, articulating Black feminist theory, Latin American feminism, sociology of emotions, and decolonial theory.
Gabriela Silva Loureiro is a professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on feminisms, queer studies, anti-racism, decoloniality, and the sociology of emotions.
Heloisa Buarque de Almeida is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP). Her research focuses on feminisms, media, and social markers of difference.
Organized by: NUMAS/USP – Center for Studies of Social Markers of Difference and the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP.
This event is open to the public and will be streamed on the FFLCH YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/ORSWSuWQ3Y4