MIX.LITERARIO

Celebrating the eighth edition of Mix Literário is to acknowledge that queer literature—both Brazilian and international—continues to open paths, reinvent language, and offer new ways of existing.
The project was born from the desire to create a meeting space for authors and readers who write and read from the margins, and it has established itself as one of the most important platforms for thinking and feeling literature as a territory of resistance and invention today.

This year, our activities are focused on two roundtable discussions featuring the jurors of the Mix Literário and Caio Fernando Abreu Awards, as well as creative workshops where writers will share their literary processes in person at the Mário de Andrade Library.
Maintaining the international dialogue that has defined Mix Literário in recent years, we also welcome Anne Pauly, a powerful voice in contemporary lesbian literature from France, who joins our program and will also DJ at the MixBrasil opening party.

Even in a more compact format, we remain faithful to our mission of fostering dialogue, listening, and strengthening the networks that sustain contemporary queer literature.

This path is not walked alone. Thanks to the institutional support of the Mário de Andrade Library, which has hosted our program since its first editions, we have been able to inscribe queer literature into the cultural heart of São Paulo.
We are also supported by Editora Reformatório, a partner in amplifying voices that challenge borders, and by the MixBrasil Festival of Diversity Culture, without which Mix Literário would never have been born—nor remained alive all these years.

Reaching the eighth edition, therefore, means celebrating a history of alliances and persistence. May this year be another opportunity to transform words into collective gesture, reaffirming that literature is, at once, memory, desire, and horizon.

Alexandre Rabelo, writer and curator