Moisés Lino e Silva is tenured faculty in the department of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is here to discuss his new book Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press).

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Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson. 

The song at the end of the episode is “Introduction (You’re Asleep/ Awake)” from the forthcoming album “Night of the Hunter” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy, soon to be available from Highbrow Lowlife

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast.

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