WHO WE ARE

GABRIELA ACEVES is a Ph.D. Candidate in History and a Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research examines the intersections between visual arts and politics at work in the practices of various women artists in post-1968 Mexico. She is interested in looking at how the practices of these artists, including performances, street demonstrations, films, video art and the making of archives disrupt and intervene disciplinary boundaries and hegemonic visual archives challenging established structures of power and knowledge.

MARIE-EVE CARRIER-MOISAN is a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia.  Since 2003, she has based her work in the Northeast of Brazil, exploring the intersections of gender, migration and globalization. Her PhD dissertation: an ethnography of global sex tourism in the beach of Ponta Negra –a tourist area in the city of Natal, Brazil. In particular, Marie-Eve is interested in the trajectories of Brazilian women who make use of the sex tourist economy in projects of social mobility, and explores the ambiguous relationships of love and money between (mixed-race) Brazilian women and (white) European male tourists.

ORALIA GÓMEZ-RAMÍREZ is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and a Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on trans politics and sex work in Mexico, specifically looking at trans sex workers’ most recent efforts to obtain legal, health, and social rights.

MANUELA VALLE is a Ph.D. Candidate in Women’s and Gender Studies and a Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include the gendered and sexualized dimensions of political economy, such as the gendered and sexual narratives of neoliberalism, and the intersections between gender and nationalism. Her research project aims to explore how in Latin American post-dictatorship societies such as the Chilean, the continued legacy of an authoritarian culture limits the exercise of citizenship and rights for women and men and children, arguing that a real democratization in these societies requires the transformation of gender meanings and sexual imaginaries.