Resilient Advocacy: A Global Shout for LGBT+ Rights
Platform to Interconnect and unite the Global Queer Community & Resistance

There are over 70 countries affected by anti-LGBT+ legislation worldwide; with a disturbing trend of heightening homophobic persecution, efforts to retract progressive Queer-friendly laws, or the introduction of more stringent anti-LGBT+ measures in several nations. Our aim is to build and expand international global solidarity networks to individuals and local queer movements, to fight legalised homophobia for a just future convenient for current and future generations of Queer people around the globe. One of the initiatives of Resilient Advocacy is to build a private online solidarity community, a platform to connect LGBT+ activists across the globe and provide possibilities of global exchange and tools for articulation.

Numerous queer activists in countries where their rights are criminalized often operate in isolation, yet their remarkable efforts of fighting for their communities human rights persist. Thus, we want to build an online network – a digital safe space – where we can have workshops, exchange ideas, brainstorm solutions, share (and store) information. This platform will serve as a vital tool for gradually crafting strategies to combat legalized discrimination. Each individual will have the opportunity to learn, contribute, and adapt these strategies to their own communities. Additionally, the forum will provide a space for individuals to seek assistance with specific challenges and serve as a platform to empower existing community leaders while also training others through this online forum.

We believe it is incredibly important to build a vibrant and unique online community, a virtual safe space for us to come together and build our resistance to LGBT+phobic lawfare and a sense of global community. From a mental health perspective, being part of a community where you know you are safe and valued for who you are has significant improvements on the wellbeing and resilience of individuals. It is also a key component of global solidarity to those living in counties where Queerness is criminalised and people are forced to live in hiding and in fear. However, for safety reasons, we would need the identity and all the personal information about the people to be anonymous and unextractable from the platform.

We want to create a space where you enter, and feel you are not alone, but part of something bigger, something with a lot of potential and power to contribute to a positive future for our global queer family. We want to create a global common ground for sharing experiences with an aim of seeking solutions from across the globe for better targeted solutions of resisting anti-LGBT+ atitudes and oppression.

Territórios Fluidos
I am also a co-founder of Territórios Fluidos, a self-organized collective of TLGBQIA+ refugees and migrants in Rio de Janeiro , organized and led by and for ourselves. Our collective is made up of trans, intersex, non-binary, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people from diverse cultural backgrounds, with most of us facing social and economic vulnerability. Our collective was born out of the urgent need to create a space with the perspective of “us for us.” Before us, in Rio de Janeiro, there were no self-managed organizations led by Queer refugees/migrants. In Brazil’s sociopolitical landscape, we are often marginalized, with political and organizational decisions dictated by non-migrants. This authoritarian and xenophobic role denies migrants autonomy and perpetuates a cycle of dependency and paternalism.

Our main focus is to build a mutual support community that can strengthen our social integration processes while combating the violence, marginalization, and invisibilization associated with TLGBQIA+phobia, xenophobia, racism, and ethnocentrism. We dream of creating a solidarity network that works toward social transformation, reshapes narratives about human mobility, and helps us sustain spaces for individual and collective growth. We also seek to engage in political advocacy, developing solutions tailored to the specific needs of the Queer Migrant community in Brazil, with special attention to those facing persecution and the risk of criminalization due to anti-TLGBQIA+ laws in their countries of origin, as well as other extreme vulnerabilities, such as TLGBQIA+ migrants experiencing homelessness.

Our project envisions healing justice as the possibility of leading an initiative based on our own needs, reclaiming our sense of agency and self-determination. We identify as an anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonial collective that works from an intersectional perspective to challenge structural oppression.