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Brigitte Vasallo
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Writer and activist |
Brigitte Vasallo (Barcelona, 1973) is a Spanish writer and antiracist, feminist and LGBTI activist, specially known for her critique of gendered islamophobia, purplewashing and homonationalism, as well as for the defence of polyamory in affective relationships.
Biography
Daughter of a Galician family that migrated to France and then to Catalonia, which excludes her from the meaning of the term xarnego, although she has tried to apropiate it as part of her own identity. She has spent most of her adult life in Morocco, which has allowed her to acquire a perspective of the ethnocentric and colonial hegemonic thinking of Western society.
She collaborates regularly with various media, such as eldiario.es, Catalunya Ràdio, Diagonal, La Directa or Pikara Magazine, in addition to giving numerous lectures. Likewise, she is a lecturer in the Master of Gender and Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Work
Vasallo's work is structured around two main axes. On the one hand, she analyzes intersectionality between racism and misogyny, particularly on how it affects Muslim women. In this sense, she denounces purplewashing and pinkwashing, or in other words, how feminism and LGBTI rights are instrumentalized to justify xenophobia, ceasing to be ends in themselves.
Books
- Pensamiento monógamo. Terror poliamoroso (2018).
- Mentes insanas. Ungüentos feministas para males cotidianos (2020).
- Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase (2021).
See also
In Spanish: Brigitte Vasallo para niños
