Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity (PDF)

Jose Antonio Langarita's professional interests have centred, since the beginning of his career, on the study of sexual and gender diversity from an interdisciplinary perspective. In the course of his research, he has made use of knowledge and methodologies from different fields of social sciences. This has led him to publish the results of his work in scientific journals on anthropology, geography, social work and other transdisciplinary journals, as well as books and book chapters in several languages. Dr. Langarita has been the international coordinator of the Diversity and Childhood project (2019-2021) and the Colourful Childhoods project (2022-2024), both funded by the European Commission and focusing on sexual and gender diversity in childhood.

Ana Cristina Santos has a background in sociology and a PhD in Gender Studies. She is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC), where she is Chair of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Thematic Line and Co-Director of GPS - Sexualities Research Group. In 2021, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association until 2024. She has published extensively and coordinated several research projects on LGBTI+ issues, gender, dissident embodiment and intimate citizenship, including two European projects. From 2022 onwards, she has led funded research exploring experiences of LGBTQ+ older adults. Her most recent books are The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (coedited, 2020), The Tenacity of the Couple Norm (co-authored, 2020) and LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe (2022).

Marisela Montenegro is a professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research activity focuses on the critical and postcolonial analysis of research, teaching and social work in areas such as social services for migrant women,