Hilda de Paulo is an artist, researcher, transfeminist writer and independent curator. She is the author of the Arquivo Gis project, programmer of Queer Lisboa and Queer Porto, founding member of Cia. Excesses and eRevista Performatus. She has been part of national and international group exhibitions, and some of her works are permanently included in the collections of some institutions, such as the Serralves Foundation, the Municipal Art Collection of the city of Porto, among others. She is also the creator of the lecture-performance-workshop “What Comes After Hope?” (2022) and the performance-installation “some notes on belonging” (2024). Currently, she is a PhD student in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.