Brigitte Vasallo

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Brigitte Vasallo

Brigitte Vasallo (born 1973 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish author, feminist and activist. Her main topics are Islamophobia , intersectionality , gender and racism . She advocates alternatives to monogamy .

Life

Brigitte Vasallo is the daughter of a Galician family who first immigrated to France and then to Catalonia . She identifies herself as " Xarnego ", even if not in the originally derogatory meaning of the word. She spent several years in Morocco and, according to her own account, was sensitized to ethnocentrism and cultural arrogance .

Vasallo regularly works as an author with various media such as eldiario.es, Catalunya Ràdio, Diagonal, La Directa or Pikara Magazine. She is keynote speaker on alternatives to monogamy at conferences in Portugal, Brazil and across Spain. She was a lecturer in the master's degree in “Gender and Communication” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in a program on racism at the University of Girona .

With PornoBurka she published her first novel in 2013, for which Juan Goytisolo wrote the foreword. In 2018 her book Pensamiento monógamo was published , a critical reflection on love, sex, monogamy and polyamory . Her works have appeared in the most important Spanish daily newspapers El Mundo and El País as well as u. a. discussed in public . Essays by Brigitte Vasallo are published in anthologies. Her articles have been translated into English, French, Italian, Arabic and Portuguese, and her books have been published in Spain, Argentina and Italy.

On the subject of polyamory she advised the international research project “Intimate - Citizenship, Care and Choice” at the University of Coimbra .

Positions

Vasallo's focus is on the one hand on the intersection of racism and misogyny , especially with regard to Muslim women. She criticizes " purplewashing " and " pinkwashing ". Feminism and LGBT rights are used to justify xenophobia .

Another focus is on alternative forms of relationships apart from monogamy . She doesn't see fidelity as a type of possession and love as a limited resource. However, it warns against the appropriation of polyamory by neoliberalism , whereby its power structures are passed on and people can be objectified , their bodies can be viewed as a consumable good.

Publications

Books
  • PornoBurka. Desventuras del Raval y otras f (r) icciones contemporáneas. Ediciones Cautivas, Cardedeu 2013, ISBN 978-84-616-6174-9 . (3rd edition 2014).
  • Pensamiento monógamo. Terror poliamoroso. La Oveja Roja, Madrid 2018, ISBN 978-84-16227-24-2 .
items
  • Burcas en el ojo ajenoel. Feminismo como exclusión . In: David Karval (ed.): Combatir la islamofobia: una guía antirracista , Icaria Editorial, Barcelona 2016, ISBN 978-84-9888-715-0 , pp. 37-42.
  • Islamofobia, perspectiva decolonial e interseccionalidad. In: Más allá de lo imposible. La dimension política de los derechos humanos en el siglo XXI . Publisher Txalaparta, Navarra 2016, ISBN 978-84-1635-042-1 .
  • Monogamous Mind, Polyamorous Terror. In: Sociological Research Online, May 2019, doi: 10.1177 / 1360780419835563 .

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Vasallo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Vasallo. Auditorium Oberta # 6. Saber, hacer, comprender. Conferencia | Vídeos | CCCB. Retrieved August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Toni Polo Bettonica: “El fet xarnego és un fenomen genuí català” , El Pais, April 11, 2019
  3. ↑ Brigitte Vasallo: "El pensamiento monógamo genera identidades cerradas que operan con violencia". In: Diagonal. February 10, 2016. (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ a b Biography Brigitte Vasallo, Sociological Research Online, 2019
  5. ↑ El poliamor como arma política. In: El Mundo. January 10, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Brief review of Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso in: El País, April 20, 2019
  7. ↑ Brigitte Vasallo. "Hay que proponer un movimiento terrorista del amor que ponga en riesgo el sistema" , Público, November 28, 2018
  8. ↑ Brigitte Vasallo at: Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
  9. ↑ CES. INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The micropolitics of intimacy in Southern Europe : Consultants for Polyamory
  10. ↑ Burkas en el ojo ajeno: el feminismo como exclusión. Retrieved August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Del pornoburka al purplewashing, los trucos más sucios contra el feminismo. April 1, 2016, Retrieved August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  12. ↑ Conchita Wurst y los peligros del homonacionalismo | Periódico diagonal. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Romper la monogamia como apuesta política. Retrieved August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  14. ↑ #OccupyLove: por una revolución de los afectos | Periódico diagonal. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ El poliamor 'is the new black' *. Retrieved August 4, 2019 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ Goytisolo, Juan., Garcés, Marina .: PornoBurka: desventuras del Raval y otras f (r) icciones contemporáneas . 3rd ed. Ediciones Cautivas, Cardedeu 2014, ISBN 978-84-616-6174-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Vasallo, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish author, anti-racist, feminist and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona