Cleidi Pereira

With a degree in Social Communication, Cleidi Pereira is a journalist with a decade of experience in the newsrooms of Brazil's main daily newspapers, a period during which she won awards for her reporting, particularly in the field of human rights. She has been researching sexual and reproductive rights since her Master's in Political Science and International Relations, defended in 2020 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2021, she published the book Entre a cruz e a espada: a (des)penalização do aborto na América Latina (Insular, Brazil), the result of her master's thesis. She is also the author of Confissões de um torturador: a última entrevista do coronel Ustra (Insular, 2025) and Travessias: poemas sobre o partir(se) (Urutau, 2025).

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, with a scholarship from the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (BD.2023.03838). Her research analyzes the experiences of childbirth and obstetric violence among Brazilian migrant women in Portugal and Spain, based on biographical narrative interviews and from an intersectional, feminist, and decolonial perspective. She is a member of the Social Studies on Birth Laboratory, nascer.pt (CIES-IUL), and of Research Network 33 (Women's and Gender Studies) of the European Sociological Association (ESA).