Filthy Psychology

Sofia Favero is a psychologist, a writer, and an activist. She is a founding member of the Association for Trans and Travesti Movement in Sergipe, Brazil. Favero earned her doctorate in social and institutional psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and she is the author of several books on gender and sexuality. Filthy Psychology is her English-language debut. She lives in São Paulo.

Bruna Barros is a translator, multidisciplinary artist, and researcher. They're also known as mercúrio. Barros is a former member of the research group Translating in the Black Atlantic, half of the translation art collective cocoruto art duo, a member of the multidisciplinary artistic platform PIRA, and a member of the Indocile Bodies and Free Minds collective. Barros is a graduate student in the literature and culture program of the Federal University of Bahia, where they research the translation of Black Brazilian Portuguese poetry into English.