In the wake of a conservative political turn during which the government waged war in defense of the “traditional family,” Brazil is one of the most unsafe countries for LGBTQIA+ people. Though often depicted as a racial-sexual paradise (Smith 2016), the highest murder rate of trans folks worldwide, racist policing, and Jair Bolsonaro’s defunding of university humanities programs created a sociopolitical landscape wherein research on race, gender, and sexuality is all but criminalized. Modeled after the work of Black feminist anthropologists and trans theorists, the dissertation project takes a multimodal ethnographic approach to ask how Black and Indigenous LGBTQIA+ communities contest, reaffirm, and otherwise imagine their place in the nation. Following several performance collectives and independent artists throughout the Northern-Northeastern region of Brazil, the dissertation analyzes creative embodiments that upend colonial logics. The project uses documentary filmmaking to document the artists’ search for sustainable, liberatory relations with one another, urban environments, and other-than-human beings. These relations manifest through memory, haunting, and desire, unifying creatives at the geographic and epistemic fringes of Brazilian society as they transgress the racial-gender-sexual norms of Christian morality. By documenting resonances in regional linguistic, visual, and movement repertoires, the dissertation offers new vocabularies for intimacy, pleasure, and erotics stemming from Black : Indigenous expressions of bodily autonomy.