Sexual dissidence is a concept employed within academic research to identify and analyze identities, practices, or formations that deviate from or challenge dominant sexual and gender norms. It serves as a framework for investigating experiences of marginalization, resistance, and alternative formations, examining how these are shaped within specific socio-historical contexts and in relation to normative structures such as heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and cultural or political regulation. This concept is significant for critically analyzing historical narratives, social dynamics, and cultural representations from perspectives that foreground non-normative sexualities and genders.