Tatiana Nascimento

Tatiana Nascimento (born 1981) is a Brazilian writer, translator, singer, poet, slammer, and composer. She writes, investigates and publishes books by Black and LGBT+ authors. She was one of the people who idealized and cofounded the publisher padê editora. She was a finalist of the Jabuti prize of poetry in 2022 with the book Palavra Preta. She won the Pallas Award for Literature in 2024, being awarded for her 18th book and first romance, Água de maré (2025).

Her book lundu was one of the publications selected by the Projeto Nacional Leia Mulheres for their Best Books of 2016 category. It was also published in an experimental audiovisual format.

She is the creator of the concept of "cuírlombismo" literature (also written as "cuíerlombismo" or "kuírlombismo"), to which she proposes the term as a reimagining of sexual dissidence as a foundational part of the ancestral imagination of the Black diaspora, as well as a new interpretive parameter of artistic productions made by Black LGBT+ people. This is made simultaneously from and as part of a rupture with the paradigm of pain/resistance/denunciation that points to the canon of literary criticism/theory as foundational to Black Brazilian literature.

Biography Nascimento was born in 1981 in Brasília. She graduated with a degree in Portuguese from the University of Brasília (UnB). In 2014, she earned a doctorate in translation studies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with the thesis Letramento e tradução no espelho de Oxum: teoria lésbica negra em auto/re/conhecimentos, under the advisory of Luciana Rassier. Nascimento is non-binary.

In 2015, she co-founded, with Bárbara Ismenia, padê editorial, a collective publisher dedicated to the publication of artisanal books by Black authors and/or by lesbian, travesti, transgender, and bisexual authors.

That same year, Nascimento idealized, cofounded (with Valéria Matos), and produced Slam das Minas in Brasília. This was the first poetry slam exclusively for women and lesbians in Brazil, which also became an activist movement. In 2017, she cofounded Palavra Preta – Mostra Nacional de Negras Autoras, which is held annually. This show came from an invite by singer Luedji Luna and was named after the poetry "palavra preta", which Nascimento had written at beginning in 2015. The first edition of the Mostra Palavra Preta, in Salvador, had more than 300 people participating in the first three days of the show. The second edition in 2018 was held at the Festival Latinidades in Brasília, and had the participation of Kati Souto, Nina Ferreira, and Jorge Maravilha.

In 2018, Nascimento coordinated the LGBT poetry studio Do dever de sofrer, ao direito de sonhar, at the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo, as a laboratory of lecture and the production of text on Black existence and dissidents. The same year, she was invited by the Swedish embassy in Brazil and by UN Women to host the opening ceremony for “Pais presentes: a paternidade ativa na Suécia e no Brasil”, realized by the HeForShe initiative. The event included the presence of representatives of the Federal District, the Metrô de Brasília, UN Women and the Swedish Embassy.

As an educator, she administered the course “privilégio branco: uma questão feminista?”, the first Brazilian course on the theme of whiteness, colonialism, and structural racism, and has had more than 100 tours since its beginning in 2019. Her first musical album, meio beat meio banzo, was released on digital format. Nascimento composed the track Iodo+Now Frágil on Luedji Luna's debut album Um corpo no mundo.

In 2018, she was published on the Revista Observatório of Itaú Cultural, as entry number 24, alongside Consuelo Bassanesi, Denise Stoklos, Lucina Jiménez Lopéz, Chico Pelúcio, Guti Fraga, Ana Mae Barbosa, Alcione Araújo, Ricardo Dal Farra, Kiko Dinucci, Benjamim Taubkin, Maria Vlachou, German Ray, and Claudio di Girólamo.

Poetry Source:

Romance

Água de maré, Rio de Janeiro: Pallas, 2025

Essays Sources:

leve sua culpa branca pra terapia (ed. trilíngue), Brasília: Padê Editorial, 2019 um sopro de vida no meio da morte, Juiz de Fora: macondo editora, 2019 cuírlombismo literário: poesia negra lgbtqi desorbitando o paradigma da dor, n-1 edições, 2019 Mas como toda a opressão está conectada? in Patrícia Lessa, Dolores Galindo (orgs.), Relações multiespécies em rede: feminismos, animalismos e veganismo [online], Maringá: Eduem, 2017 leve sua culpa branca pra terapia, 2. ed, São Paulo: n-1, 2020 racismo visual, sadismo racial: quando (?) nossas mortes importam, São Paulo: n-1, 2020 privilégio branco: uma questão feminista (?), Brasília: Padê, 2022

Translations

Entre nós mesmas, poesia de Audre Lorde, Rio de Janeiro: Bazar do Tempo, 2020 Calamidades, ensaios de Renee Gladman, Rio de Janeiro: A Bolha, 2021 A vulva é uma ferida aberta e outros ensaios, ensaios de Gloria Anzaldua, Rio de Janeiro: A Bolha, 2021 Nossos mortos em nossas costas, poemas de Audre Lorde, Rio de Janeiro: A Bolha, 2021 Os diários do câncer, ensaios de Audre Lorde, Rio de Janeiro: Ginecosofia, 2024 Abdias, intérprete do Brasil, São Paulo: Todavia, 2025

Music

"Meio beat meio banzo", online: spotify, 2025

Recognition Água de maré won the Prêmio Pallas de literatura in 2024. Palavra Preta was a finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti in the poetry category in 2022. Lundu was selected by the Projecto Nacional Leia Mulheres (Brasil) for their Best Books of 2016 category. In December 2017, it was the Book of the Month in the Lendo Mulheres Negras edition in Brasília, and the 2018 edition in Salvador.