Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos (she/her) is an afrotransfeminist from Brazil. She received her B.A in Pedagogy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Now, she is pursuing her master’s degree in Education (Sociology of Education) at the University of São Paulo. She also holds a Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies (Hutchins Center at Harvard University). Her current research investigates political-legislative anti-trans attacks and how they may impact the Brazilian education system and our political wins against institutional transphobia inside schools and universities. Maria dedicates most of her time studying gender (identity) and race intersections, decolonial curricula, progressive social movements in Latin America, trans+feminism, and more recently transnational right-wing movements and their educational anti-gender agenda. Right now, she works as a parliamentary assistant, responsible for doing political and pedagogical work with LGBTQIA+ movements and women’s movements for the Mandata Quilombo at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo state. Mandata Quilombo is a group of Afro-Brazilian people, with a majority of Afro-Brazilian women, whose work is to fight structural racism, sexism, and LGBTQIA+phobia alongside the first transgender Black woman to become a state congressperson in Brazil, Erica Malunguinho.