Vi Grunvald is a transvestite and Amazonian professor. She holds a Master's degree (National Museum/UFRJ), a PhD, and a post-doctoral degree (USP) in Social Anthropology. She has training in film from the International Film Academy (AIC). At USP, she is a member of the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI), the Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA), the Center for Studies on Social Markers of Difference (NUMAS), and Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM). Her work revolves around discussions on the body; politics; human rights; affirmative action and public policies; activism, artivism, and social movements; gender, gender identity, sexuality, and social markers of difference; intersectionality; kinship and family; queer theory; the city and urban practices; art; image; cinema; performance; music; ethnographic experimentation; documentary and multimodal tactics; archives and historical regimes; In addition to having a persistent interest in issues of post-colonial thought, decolonial thought, Black social thought, and radical Black thought.