Brazilian Trans Artivism, Comics and Communities, between Digital and Print
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Abstract
This article looks at the intersection of web-based comics and print graphic memoirs authored by transgender Brazilian comics artists. Brazilian comics have in recent years opened up to internet platforms, a change that has proved particularly fruitful for LGBTQ+ artists, traditionally marginalised by the Brazilian comics industry. The article examines two case studies – those of Luiza Lemos and Alice Pereira, both authors of comics originally posted on social media and later published in print. By means of a mixed methodology that brings together semi-structured interviews with the authors and close readings, this contribution investigates the dynamics regulating the creative and publishing processes of these works, as well as the relationship that they entertain with the practice of transsexual self-narration and self-portraiture.
Contributor Notes
Nicoletta Mandolini is Foundation for Science and Technology Researcher at the University of Minho, where she works on the project ‘Sketch That Story and Make It Popular: Using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism against Gender Violence’. She worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven and holds a PhD from University College Cork. She is the author of Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (2021) and co-editor of Representing Gender-based Violence: Global Perspectives (2023). She is a founding member of SnIF (Studying ’n’ Investigating Fumetti). Email: nicoletta.mandolini@ics.uminho.pt
Giorgio Busi Rizzi is Postdoctoral Fellow, Adjunct Professor of English Literature and Adjunct Lecturer of Comics and Graphic Novels at Ghent University. He holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies with joint supervision from the universities of Bologna and Leuven. His PhD dissertation, analysing nostalgic aesthetics and practices in contemporary graphic novels, is currently submitted for publication. His first post-doctoral project investigated experimental digital comics. He is a founding member of the international research group on Italian comics SnIF (Studying ’n’ Investigating Fumetti) and a member of several international research groups on comics. Email: giorgio.busirizzi@ugent.be; ORCID: