Language, Literacy, and Culture presents Tiely

For their Black in the Americas Series, the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program presents

Tiely has dedicated more than 30 years to hip hop culture in Brazil. He comes from the East Zone of São Paulo and began his career as an actor, dancer, photographer, and as a rapper with the defunct group Tribo Cerebral and later with Fator Ético, one of the groups belonging to Aliança Negra Posse. Considered the first Trans Man of Brazilian rap, Tiely has stayed in São Paulo, performing in films, theater, and TV. He also writes poetry, blogs, and novels. In his projects, Tiely always seeks LGBTQIAP+ artists, thus ensuring space within hip hop culture for them. This often goes against the mainstream, but Tiely seeks respect for diversity, gender identities and the like. He hopes that hip hop culture can be a springboard to change in other segments of society.

Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts; Department of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies; the Global Studies Program; Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; Department of Political Science; and Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.