Bruno Nzinga Ribeiro

Visiting Scholar

Bruno Nzinga Ribeiro is an activist in LGBTQIANPN+ and black movements, a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and currently a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY). He earned his BA in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Unicamp. His research from 2018 to 2021, funded by FAPESP, investigated the Black LGBT scene in São Paulo. At New York University, he further explored the transnational Black LGBTQ scene, focusing on connections between São Paulo and New York City. Currently, at the CPCP, Bruno is developing research on difference, abandonment, and precarity in the (im)mobilities of Brazilian LGBT migrants living in New York City (FAPESP grant 21/14686-8), under the supervision of Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore. His research interests include sexual and gender diversity, intersectionality, performance studies, black queer studies, and social movements. Bruno’s master’s dissertation earned an honorable mention in the X Anthropology and Human Rights Award from the Brazilian Association of Anthropology. His recent publications include articles in journals such as Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Cadernos de Campo: USP, and Áskesis: UFSCAR.

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.

2024–2025

Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism

The existential problems of the planet are complex. Given capitalism’s obsessive growth primed by, for instance, land-grabbing, extractivism, social and economic hierarchies, and war, capitalist environmentalism leans heavily on tweaking armageddon to maintain its hold on futurity for the planet.