When one’s academic work is acknowledged in unexpected ways… I feel deeply honored. 🙏🏽

DELIGHTED to deliver the keynote for the ISDD 2025 conference in Osogbo and two master classes at Osun State University in Nigeria. Recognition from peers in the Global South means so much. VERY THANKFUL! #osun #keynote #nigeria

Politics of matter and politics of ontology In what possible world could a calabash put a curse on one’s whole family? Or the forging of iron objects could deplete one’s life force? And diapers could constitute reliable indicators of anal sex a...

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NEW PUBLICATION ALERT - "In what possible world could a calabash put a curse on one’s whole family? (…) And diapers could constitute reliable indicators of anal sex activity?" - Lino e Silva, M. “Politics of matter and politics of ontology.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 15 (2025): 211–214.

What a wonderfully engaged audience for my lecture @cmestunisia yesterday! I’m very thankful! 🙏🙏🙏

A JRAI review of "Minoritarian Liberalism" just came out: “At the heart of this ethnography is Natasha, a travesti and a self-proclaimed ‘libertine whore’ who migrated from the Brazilian hinterland, where she struggled with being trans, to a favela which was experienced as a ‘liberal heterotopia’"

It is my birthday and I am proud of who I am! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

End of year gathering with current and former advisees! Proud of our journey! 💛

Delighted to join CA’s editorial board! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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I'd love to join you! Thanks!

#LYOTARD

“A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression.”

here is the **very** beginning of a starter pack for queer & trans anthropology, thanks to encouragement from @noahtamarkin.bsky.social

please let me know who I missed or if you want to be added!!

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Great idea! I'd love to join the group. Thanks!

With Gloria Wekker and Egbomi Cici @UFBA.