Under the leadership of Dr. Adriana Ortiz-Ortega of México, regional teams research and discuss the challenges of researching and teaching sexuality and gender issues in each country. Dialogue takes place through a virtual platform through which we aim to generate cross cultural and interdisciplinary (between disciplines and between academia, policy, and activism) teaching methods, theoretical frameworks, and material in the fields of sexuality and gender. How:

- Creation and use of virtual platform

- Construct cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methodologies for teaching that will be applied in local contexts and be the basis of  South-South cooperation.

- Use of theoretical work from all countries in order to observe differences; locate absences, questions, and debates.

- We will make our results public and circulate them in an international meeting and in international academic conferences.

General Objetives:

• Build a critical mass of scholars and public intellectuals from the South sensitive to the challenges of researching and teaching sexuality and gender issues to work together across time and space. Their efforts will be aimed to assess the institutional capacity of public and private universities located in their countries for the formal inclusion of these topics.
  
• Construct cross-cultural and across disciplines methodologies for teaching that will be applied in local contexts that will be the basis of  South-South cooperation.
  
• Assess the existing institutional links to research and teach on sexualities.
  
• Explore possible links across disciplines to generate synergies and actions between academia, political, and activist arenas in order to facilitate the translation of concepts as well as promote ground-breaking theoretical work, materials, and research frameworks in the fields of sexuality and gender.
  
• Contribute to reshaping current debates in cross-cultural, local and international academic circuits on issues of sexuality and gender. This will be achieved through the promotion of innovative results, debates and materials to be circulated in an international meeting, as well by group participation in international academic conferences.