He is a professor at the University of Rovuma, in Mozambique. [...] In the Mozambican context, my interlocutors expressed a certain distrust of my self-identification as heterosexual, and many believed that it was a sort of excuse I was using to hide my queerness. In Rio de Janeiro, something very different took place. [...] Why did you decide to frame the project along these lines? During my research, I noticed that there is a lack of studies linking humor and sexuality. [...] What is the role that humor plays in the social life or sociability of LGBT people? [...] I think that the lens of humor allows us to unravel questions that have to do with emotions, with rights, as well as with the types of social engagement that people value in a particular cultural context. [...] In various parts of the world, we have seen a movement to reject the dominant, Western, LGBT nomenclature. [...] In particular, scholars and activists in the Global South have been trying to look for a local, vernacular, vocabulary to speak of sexual and gender dissidence. [...] In this sense, in your research you use the term manas trans. Tell me a bit more about the origin of the term. [...] As a Mozambican researcher who has been working in this area of gender and sexuality studies for some time, how do you see the future of trans studies in Mozambique? [...] But in terms of the existing scientific production, I dare to say that this is not an established field yet.
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