Repoliticizing intersectionality to maintain hope: An interview with Mara Viveros

This interview is also available in written format in the magazine Tramas y Redes, no. 4: https://www.clacso.org/repolitizar-la-interseccionalidad-para-mantener-la-esperanza-una-entrevista-a-mara-viveros/

Mara Viveros-Vigoya She holds a PhD in Anthropology (EHESS, Paris). She is a tenured professor at the School of Gender Studies, where she has served as director twice. She was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2014-2015) and president of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA (2019-2020). She is the author of *The Oxymoron of the Black Middle Classes: Social Mobility and Intersectionality* (University of Guadalajara Press, 2021), *The Colors of Masculinity* (La Découverte, 2018), and *The Colors of Masculinity* (Papéis Selvagens Edições, 2018), and editor of *Black Feminism: Critical Theory, Violence, and Racism: Conversations between Angela Davis and Gina Dent* (UNAL, 2019).

Flavia Rios She is a sociologist and director of the Institute of Human Sciences and Philosophy of the Fluminense Federal University. She is an AFRO/CEBRAP researcher. She is co-author of the book Lélia Gonzalez (Summus, 2010) and co-organizer of Negros nas cidades brasileiras (Intermeios/FAPESP, 2018), Por um feminismo afro-latino-americano (Zahar, 2020) and Raça e Estado (Eduerj, 2022).