Dissident identities often develop on the margins, firmly rooted in the present to provide us with stories and arguments that make it more inviting. These voices tackle the challenges of gender and the certainties of diversity and nomadism – no longer from a position marginality, but one of dissidence. They fictionalize difference to make it less inhospitable; they write about foreignness as a part of community; they bring violence to life, imagine a planet heading for devastation, and embrace the particularities of different bodies.

Kosmopolis explores the many variations of the self and the collective with three activist authors: the Galician writer and translator María Reimóndez, who combines literature with feminist and ecological activism in work that is characterized by diversity and anti-colonialism; the Mexican novelist and researcher Sara Guerrero, who has adopted Galician as a literary language and investigates the sense of belonging, questions of migration, and feminism; and the poet and essayist Blanca Llum Vidal, a unique voice in contemporary Catalan poetry, situated between radical emotion and political engagement. The conversation is moderated by the researcher and expert in Galician literature Helena González.