Xaman Minillo is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the Federal University of Paraíba. Before that she worked at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) monitoring and evaluating international development cooperation projects. Xaman is a mentor in the female mentorship program Alumna. She is also a member of the MulheRIs collective, working towards promoting gender equality in Brazilian IR academia. Currently she is working on her PhD at the University of Bristol researching Zimbabwean LGBTIQ activisms as a route to enacting citizenship. Her research interests are in sexual citizenship, African LGBTIQ activisms, politics of the Global South, and development. Xaman is a cancer survivor seeking to enjoy a healthy and happy life.
