Joana Brilhante
Biography
Associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a degree in Anthropology, a Master's in Human Biology and Evolution, and a PhD in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies from the University of Coimbra, with a thesis entitled "The Island Effect: LGBTQ People's Experiences through the Lens of Geographical Isolation". She has been an associate researcher on several projects, including Multiversidade (2022/23) - White Paper on Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination, promoted by NOVA School of Law, Lisbon, and she is currently part of the TRACE project - Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, Ageism and Age-Related LGBTI+ Politics in Europe, based at CES, University of Coimbra. Her research interests include the geographies of sexualities, island studies, and queer studies, with a focus on qualitative methodologies and critical, intersectional approaches. She is co-coordinator of the Sexualities Research Group (GPS-CES) and was awarded the Young Scholar Award by the European Sociological Association in 2024.
ORCID
Agenda
17th to 21st of May, 2026
Monsters Summer School IV | Monsters Under Pressure: the queer art of resistance
Projetos
TRACE
Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics in Europe
Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Côrte-Real, Paulo; Rego, Margarida Lima; Brilhante, Joana; Resende, Maria João; Vale de Almeida, Miguel; Corcodel, Veronica (2025), "Keeping it together: how to design legal protection against multiple and intersectional discrimination", International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
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Lima Rego, Margarida; Côrte-Real, Paulo; Brilhante, Joana; Resende, Maria João; Vale de Almeida, Miguel; Corcodel, Veronica (2024), Multiversidade: Livro Branco sobre Discirminação Múltipla e interseccional. Lisboa: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Pieri, Mara; Brilhante, Joana (2022), ""The Light at the End of the Tunnel": Experiences of LGBTQ+ Adults in Portuguese Healthcare", Healthcare, 10, 1, 146
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