Gisela Casimiro (Guinea-Bissau, 1984) is a writer, artist, translator, speaker, and activist. Casimiro works on identity, the body, memory, trauma, healing, anti-racism, post-colonialism, and everyday life. Her practice involves curation, photography, installation, collage, and sound performances. She has been featured in several national and international festivals, universities, magazines, and anthologies. She published Erosão, Giz, and Estendais. She wrote the plays Casa com Árvores Dentro and Vida: Uma Aplicação. She is a co-screenwriter for the upcoming series Novas Narrativas de Caça. She translated Sister Outsider and The Cancer Diaries by Audre Lorde, and Miss Major Speaks by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. She has exhibited works at major art centres around the world. For three years, she co-coordinated the Cinema Batalha Reading Club. She is a member and co-founder of UNA – União Negra das Artes (Black Arts Union).
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