“Aren’t you afraid to go…?” is a recurring question, especially addressed to women. Travelling makes visible inequalities that are often naturalised: expectations about the body, the place we occupy and the limits imposed on us.
📆 11th April 2026
🕔 17h00 – 18h30
📍 Casa do Comum (1st floor)
Tânia Neves invites Eduardo Fraga to talk about how fear shapes the way we move in the world – and who can or cannot travel freely.
“Aren’t you afraid to go…?” is a recurring question, especially addressed to women. Travelling makes visible inequalities that are often naturalised: expectations about the body, the place we occupy and the limits imposed on us.
There are countries where a single woman can’t apply for a visa. In others, independence is frowned upon. Adaptation strategies become part of the journey – avoiding confrontation, withholding information, adjusting the way you present yourself.
But if this is already the case, what will it be like for non-binary, queer or trans people?
To what extent does identity condition freedom of movement?
We’re talking about fear – not just as an individual emotion, but as a social construct, distributed unequally. A mechanism that regulates behavior, delimits spaces and influences decisions.
Based on real experiences of touring and clinical reflection, this talk proposes questioning what is imposed on us as a risk, what we internalize as a limit and how all this shapes the way we exist.
A conversation about identity, freedom and belonging – and what it means to travel without fear today.
Eduardo Fraga
Psychoanalyst and content creator on mental health and LGBT behavior. He works on issues such as anxiety, self-esteem and identity, exploring the relationship between the subject, social norms and power structures.
