Marina Segatti is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. She is also part of the Trans Diasporic Studies initiative, a multi-institution research collaboration. Working at the intersection of feminist theory, digital media studies, and transnational politics, her interdisciplinary research engages critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality alongside decolonial and anti-fascist thought. She focuses on digital activism, transnational feminist movements, memory politics, and queer and trans resistance in Brazil and across the Americas. Her work bridges academic and activist spheres, and she has collaborated with organizations including Acervo Bajubá, a grassroots LGBTQIA+ archive in São Paulo, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz, where she contributed to human rights investigations across the hemisphere.

She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Networks of Digital Resistance: Countering the Far Right and the Gender Ideology in Brazil, and her article "Hackear o CIStema: Black Trans Women and Travesti Digital Resistance Against Brazilian Fascism" is forthcoming in TSQ in 2026.

Digital Activism and Social Movements; Transnational Feminist Theory; Memory Politics and Archives; Brazil and Latin American Studies; Trans, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Linguistic Anthropology; Anti-Fascism and the Anti-Gender Campaign; Decolonial Feminist Thought.

Transnational Feminisms; Queer and Trans Studies; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Media Studies.

Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. (2025) Designated Emphases: Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies Dissertation: Networks of Digital Resistance: Countering the Far Right and the Gender Ideology in Brazil

M.A., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. (2024)

M.A., English (Linguistics concentration), San Francisco State University. (2013) Thesis: Constructing Identity in Asylum Narrative: A Linguistic Approach

B.A., International Relations, Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil. (2004)

Selected Works

Journal Article

Segatti, Marina. "Hackear o CIStema: Black Trans Women and Travesti Digital Resistance Against Brazilian Fascism." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Forthcoming 2026.

Bargu, Banu, and Marina Segatti. "The Colonial Necropolitics of 'Gender Ideology' in Brazil: The Queer as a Question of National Security." Cadernos Discursivos, Edição Especial, v. 2, n. 1, pp. 12–33, 2018.

Academic Translations (English to Portuguese)

Collins, James, and Stef Slembrouck. "Goffman e Globalização: Enquadres de Participação e Progressões Escalar Espacial e Temporal de Multilinguismo de Base Migratória." Translated with Joana Plaza Pinto, 2020.

Sacchi, Duen, Dana Galán, Ochy Curiel, and Marlene Wayar. "Epistemologias desobedientes e histórias decoloniais: um fórum sobre práxis latino-americana." Revista Periódicus 1 (15): 75–90, 2021.

Invited Presentations

Segatti, Marina. "Digital Resistance in Times of Authoritarianism: Feminist and Queer Activism in Brazil." Smith College, Northampton, MA. March 24, 2026.

Segatti, Marina. "Epistemologies of Survival: Trans and Travesti Resistance to Fascism in Brazil." Seminar: Género, TransGénero, y PostGénero, Gender, Society, and Policy Master's Program, FLACSO-PRIGEPP, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Virtual). July 23, 2025.

Segatti, Marina. "Brazilian LGBTIQ Transnational Movement against Neo-fascism: Resistance and Community." Whiteness and Heteropatriarchy in the Rise of Brazil's Far-Right, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. November 21, 2019.

Segatti, Marina. "Crafting Community: The Lived Experience of Queer Brazilian Immigrant Women." Rethinking Gendered Violence and Immigrants Lives, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. May 2, 2019.

Oral Presentations

Segatti, Marina. "From Local Resistance to Transnational Solidarity: The Role of Digital Activism in Preserving Marielle Franco's Memory and Legacy." Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Francisco, CA. May 29, 2025.

Segatti, Marina. "#MariellePresente: Ativismo de Hashtags, Disputa de Memória e Polarização Política." 13º Seminário Internacional Fazendo Gênero, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. July 29, 2024.

Segatti, Marina. "From Memory to Action: Marielle Franco's Impact on Brazil's Political Landscape." Latin American Studies Association Congress, Bogotá, Colombia. June 12, 2024.

Segatti, Marina. "Monitoring Racism on Twitter in the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign." UCSC-UNICAMP Symposium "The Far-Right and Democracy: Brazil and the Américas," University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. September 28, 2022.

Segatti, Marina. "Afrontar y Transformar: Política de mujeres negras trans brasileñas." 9ª Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. June 10, 2022.

Segatti, Marina. "Afrontar e Transformar: Política das Mulheres Trans Negras." Brazilian Studies Association Congress, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Virtual). March 10, 2022.

Segatti, Marina. "Lésbicas Brasileiras em São Francisco contra o Neofascismo." California Brazilianist Conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. February 7, 2020.

Segatti, Marina. "A Necropolítica Colonial da 'Ideologia do Gênero' no Brasil." VII Simpósio Mundial de Língua Portuguesa (Simelp), Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil. August 23, 2019.

Segatti, Marina. "Identidade Sexual em Narrativa de Asilo: Uma Abordagem Discursiva." 11º Seminário Internacional Fazendo Gênero & 13th Women's Worlds Congress, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. July 30, 2017.

Segatti, Marina. "Constructing Identity in Asylum Narrative: A Linguistic Approach." VI Coloquio Del Otro Lado — Perspectivas Sobre Sexualidades "Queer," Universidad de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. March 1, 2016.

Fall 2026

• WGS 300 Selected Topics - Queer and Trans Digital Resistance in the Age of Anti-Gender Politics

Before joining Syracuse University, Segatti taught courses in feminist studies, queer theory, memory studies, and linguistics, including Critical Queer Studies: Mobilities and Memory in the Americas at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Fundamentals of Language at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Holy Names University, where she served as a lecturer for a decade.

Selected Honors and Awards

1. UCSC Dissertation Quarter Fellowship. (Spring 2025).
2. California Community College Internship Program Fellowship. (2024–2025).
3. UCSC The Humanities Institute Summer Public Fellowship. (Summer 2024).
4. AAUW STARS Re-entry Scholarship. (Summer 2024).
5. AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship. (2023–2024).
6. Wenner-Gren Fieldwork Dissertation Fellowship. (2022–2023).
7. UCSC Hispanic-Serving Institution Summer Publishing Institute Fellowship. (Summer 2022).
8. UCSC The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellowship. (Summer 2022).
9. AAUW STARS Re-entry Scholarship. (Spring 2022).
10. UCSC Feminist Studies Department Dissertation Fellowship. (Spring 2022).
11. UCSC Research Center for the Americas Research Grant. (Winter 2022).
12. UCSC The Humanities Institute Graduate Student Instructor Fellowship. (Summer 2021).
13. UCSC The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship. (Summer 2020).
14. UCSC Cantú Award. (Spring 2020).
15. UCSC Research Center for the Americas Research Mini-grant. (Summer 2019).
16. UCSC Regents Fellowship. (Spring 2018).
17. UCSC Regents Fellowship. (Fall 2017).

Selected Service

Academic Service

Coordinator, Research Cluster on Interrogating the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class to Examine Brazil's Current Reactionary Wave. University of California, Santa Cruz (2019–2022).

Editorial Assistant, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Cuir Americas Special Issue. Duke University Press (Spring 2020).

Team Leader, Human Rights Lab, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. University of California, Santa Cruz (2019–2022).

Logistics Coordinator and Interpreter (English–Portuguese–Spanish), International School of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in the Americas, Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil (August 2017, 2018, and 2019).

Community Engagement

Public Fellow, Acervo Bajubá, São Paulo, Brazil (Summer 2024).

Co-Founder, Coletivo Desbordar, Oakland, California (2015–2018).

Project Consultant, Our Family Coalition, San Francisco, California (Summer 2013).