Manuela Lavinas Picq is professor of international relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USF), Ecuador. She co-edited Sexualities in World Politics: how LGBTQ claims shape international relations (Routledge 2015) and Queering narratives of Modernity (Peter Lang 2015).

Josi Tikuna, a Tikuna living in the Alto Solimões region, is a scholar of anthropology at the Institute of Nature and Culture (Instituto de Natureza e Cultura/INC) at Universidade Federal do Amazonas/UFAM. She is an active member in Brazil’s Indigenous Movement.