Projects

Pajubá Digital Archive: An Open-Access Repository for Resources in and on Pajubá (or Bajubá)

Year: 2025; Type: Digital Scholarship

This digital archive features cultural productions and academic works that center around Pajubá. Pajubá (or Bajubá) is a cryptolect originally developed by Brazilian trans women and travestis to protect themselves from violence and persecution. All metadata in this project is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY.

Technologies: CollectionBuilder and d3.js

Collaborators: Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent and Dr. Steven Butterman (Supervisors)

Digital mapping Néstor Perlongher’s “O Negócio do Michê”

Year: 2024; Type: Digital Scholarship

An interactive StoryMap that digitally reconstructs the São Paulo locations from Néstor Perlongher’s “O Negócio do michê,” restoring details lost in later editions. This project uses open-source mapping tools (LeafLet and OpenStreetMaps) to visualize the spatial sequence of his original ethnography.

Technologies: Leaflet and OpenStreetMaps

Collaborators: Susanna Allés-Torrent (Supervisor)

Transylvania Witch

Year: 2021; Type: Creative Work

Online installation to be played in a loop. The website plays a spell that claims transforming you into a transgender woman. The installation consists of putting it in a public space and observing people’s reaction to the spell. If any of them become a transgender woman, please tell me!

Technologies: HTML

Non-binary in Binary

Year: 2021; Type: Creative Work

Online installation to be displayed in a loop. The website shows a number of non-binary identities (xenogender, mtx, demiboy, etc) converted into binary code. My goal is to reflect how non-binary gender identities cannot be understood in binary logics. This project was exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Technologies: HTML and Javascript

Happy New Years Left

Year: 2019; Type: Creative Work

Online installation calculating happy new years’ left based on average Brazilian life expetancy. It brings urgency to consider the average life expectancy of Brazilian travestis (35 years)

Technologies: HTML and Javascript

Eu te amo

Year: 2018; Type: Creative Work

Online installation on the meaning of love.

Technologies: Unity3D