In its 6th edition, Mix Literário comes up with some clippings and meetings reflecting a crescent queer publishing production, not only in the number of published authors, but above all in the variety of specific themes and unique plots which has been coming alive in the fields of fiction and poetry. As the latest production general trend, this year, the curatorship highlights the memory issue, axis which has presented nuances in very creative works on historical reparation and the deconstruction of traditional emotional ties, in the family and beyond. Following this social demand, romances and tales on new affectivities such as polyamorous and open relationships have gained ground. It’s also important to underline that our queer literature has strengthened searching intersectional narratives which understand and give visibility to exemplary life experiences marked by multiple dissidence, mainly the ones related to race, gender and sexual orientation, as we can find in most of the guest authors invited to the eleven events this year. Among them, the launch of the last Caio Fernando Abreu award-winner book, by our partner for a couple of years, the prestigious Editora Reformatório; the 3rd edition of our already traditional soirée with Marcelino Freire, gathering more than fourty poets from all over Brazil; a debate on the lesbian fertile production for young adults; a meeting with the French author Mathieu Lindon and another one with João Silvério Trevisan, both of them launching important book on memories of HIV related losses. With this variety within diversity, we gather this year around seventy powerful voices, not to mention the engagement of more than two hundred works registered in two literature awards that could not be accomplished without the support of the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library, the Municipal department of culture in São Paulo, besides the essential voluntary help of so many friends. We’ve got a history already. And we’ve never had so many authors from our community being published and getting media coverage, which make us wonder how many voices are still waiting to meet their readers. We read and write more and more, within and outside niches, for us and more otherness. We follow much stronger.
Alexandre Rabelo is in charge of Mix Literário since 2018 and is the author of three romances, among them, “Miss Macunaíma” (Record, 2022), besides being the co-organizer of the queer Brazilian authors collection book “A resistência dos vaga-lumes” (Nós, 2019).
