QUEER L.E. III

Silvia Agüero Fernández is a mixed-race Roma woman, a feminist, lactactivist, anti-racist, communicator, essayist, co-playwright and actress who promotes campaigns against obstetrical violence and platforms for Romani memory. She is the author of feminismo es gitano (2022) and co-author of Resistencias Gitanas (2020), among other titles, and is currently the protagonist of the monologue No soy tu gitana. 

Lara Alonso Corona is a queer writer and translator from Gijón who has worked predominantly in London throughout her career. Her fiction, essays and poetry in English have been published by independent publishing houses such as Dostoyevsky Wannabe and Pilot Press. She has written for a number of publications since her return to Spain in 2021 and combines political activism with organising reading groups, performances, conversations and round-table discussions in places such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes and Ateneo in Madrid, and conferences such as Maricorners, Post Sexualidades and Historical Materialism. Her first novel in Spanish, a sci-fi-rooted rewriting of Invisible Cities, will be published soon by La Niña Azul.     

Sarah Babiker is a journalist and anthropologist who has contributed to different media and has been part of El Salto Diario in recent years. As a communicator, her concerns have centred on inequality from an intersectional perspective. In 2024 she published the essay La Nada Fértil (Continta me tienes) and the novel Café Abismo (La Oveja Roja). 

Christo Casas is a journalist and anthropologist and, above all, a working-class queer who hopes for the abolition of work. Based in Barcelona, he has written for different publications and, from time to time, writes works from a gender and class perspective, for instance El Power Ranger rosa (Niños gratis, 2020) and Maricas malas (Paidós, 2023). 

Laura Casielles is a journalist and writer who has published poetry books such as Los idiomas comunes (Hiperión, 2010), Las señales que hacemos en los mapas (Libros de la Herida, 2014) and Más adentro (Letraversal, 2025), and the essay Arena en los ojos. Memoria y silencio de la colonización española en Marruecos y el Sáhara Occidental (Libros del K.O., 2024). She currently runs creative writing workshops and works in political and cultural communication, as well as collaborating in different projects, particularly with the magazines La Marea and Climática. 

Ava Cívico is a poet, journalist and actress whose literary journey began with the anthology Vagos y Maleantes (Egales, 2019) and the poetry collection Amen (Flores Raras, 2020). More recently she published her second collection, exhibir al monstruo (Disbauxa, 2024), with her poetry also featuring in literary magazines such as Casapaís, Zéjel, DigoPalabraTXT, Revista Phantasma and Revista Ceniza. 

Bibiana Collado Cabrera holds a PhD in Hispano-American Literature and is a lecturer in Language and Literature. Within the sphere of poetic writing, her books have garnered widespread acclaim, for instance Como si nunca antes (Pre-Textos, 2013), El recelo del agua (Rialp, 2017) and Certeza del colapso (Ediciones Complutense, 2018), and her poetry book Violencia (La Bella Varsovia, 2020) has been repeatedly republished. Yeguas exhaustas (Pepitas de calabaza, 2025) is her first novel. Moreover, she recently published the poetry collection Chispitas de carne (La Bella Varsovia, 2024) and was awarded the Emerging Writer Award at Fira del Llibre de València.    

Mario Espinoza is a philosopher, researcher and Marxist of mixed race. He co-wrote, with Raquel Rodríguez, De la especulación al derecho a la vivienda (Traficantes de sueños, 2018), and in 2023 published his poetry collection Cautivos (Lastura Ediciones, 2023).  

Cristina Fallarás is a Spanish writer and journalist known for defending women’s rights and for her activism in advocating historical memory in Spain. On 26 April 2018 she launched the hashtag #Cuéntalo (#TellYourStory), an international phenomenon through which thousands of women have reported the sexual assaults they have been the victims of. Her most recent books are No publiques mi nombre (Siglo XXI España, 2024) and El evangelio según María Magdalena (Ediciones B, 2021). 

Ana Flecha Marco is the author of Dos novelitas nórdicas (Mrs. Danvers, 2019), La niña búho y el fantástico viaje en balde (Menoslobos & Eolas, 2020), Piso compartido (Mrs. Danvers, 2021) and Planeta solitario (Mrs. Danvers, 2024). She also edited the collection of epistolary books vía postal (Mr. Griffin), and translates from Norwegian, English and French into Spanish. In 2024 she received the Esther Benítez Translation Prize.  

Marta G. Franco has inhabited the internet since1999 via hack meetings, hack labs, the 15M anti-austerity movement and municipalism in Madrid. She has worked in journalism, cultural mediation and political communication and with social organisations from the collective La Intersección in an ongoing search to make the internet habitable. She recently published Las redes son nuestras (consonni, 2024). 

Eva Gallud is a writer and translator. She has translated works by poets such as Emily Dickinson, H. D., and Amy Lowell and writers such as Mary Austin, Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin. Her recent publications include Todo rojo por dentro (Dieciséis, 2023), Los años oscuros (Dieciséis, 2020) and the poetry collections Letanía del frío (Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker, 2021), Raíz de ave (Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker, 2018) and El taxidermista (Ediciones Bancarrota, 2016).   

Lidia García García is a researcher and educator who holds a PhD in Art History. She has worked on the programmes Cine de Barrio for Televisión Española, Mañana más for Radio Nacional de España and La Ventana de La Sery, and is behind the podcast ¡Ay, campaneras! and the same-titled book (Plan B, 2022). Her second book, Tarantela sevillana (Ediciones B, 2024), is the outcome of a research grant from the Real Academia de España en Roma.  

Rodrigo García Marina studied at the Professional Conservatory of Viola and obtained degrees in Medicine and Philosophy, as well as an MA in Cultural Theory and Criticism. His published work includes La caricia de las amapolas (ULPGC, 2016), Aureus (Bandaàparte Editores, 2017), Edad (Ediciones Hiperión, 2019), El libro de los arquitectos (UNED, 2021), Desear la Casa (Editorial Cántico, 2021) and Los prodigiosos gatos monteses (Letraversal, 2023). 

Ana Geranios is a journalist and writer. Her published work includes the diary-essay Verano sin vacaciones. Las hijas de la Costa del Sol (Piedra Papel Libros, 2023) and the poetic-photographic diary Prometo. Fragmentos para volver a entender del mundo (Ediciones Fantasma, 2023). Geranios has also trained in engraving, ceramics and theatre of the oppressed.  

Mikel Herrán holds a PhD in Archaeology and combines his work with the dissemination of history and archaeology on social media, radio and television. The internet knows him under the pseudonym PutoMikel, where he employs performance and drag to speak of history from more inclusive perspectives and from the construction of past discourses. He has published the books La historia no es la que es, es la que te cuentan (Planeta, 2022) and Sodomitas, vagas y maleantes: Historia de la España desviada de Atapuerca a Chueca (Planeta, 2024).   

Ira Hybris is a transfeminist and queer communist thinker, a member of the LGBTQIA+ area of dissidences in Anticapitalistas, coordinator of the anthology Las degeneradas trans acaban con la familia (Kaótika, 2022), and author of the essay Mutantes y divinas (Kaótica, 2023). Moreover, Hybris combines trans liberation with socialist strategy to make futures of communised care collectively possible.  

Margarita Kalifata is a drag queen from Córdoba who has gained popularity in Spain’s drag scene, catching the eye for her unique style and charisma. She also won the second edition of Regias del Drag, and is known for her standout talent in performance, theatre, comedy and character creation.   

Stella Marinera is a drag queen from Madrid whose flawless style and energy can transform any space into a bona fide dance hall that everyone can revel in and let the rhythm take them. Marinera is personable, attentive and always has a kind word to say, making everyone that crosses her path feel special.  

Layla Martínez is an editor and writer. Her published work includes the essay Utopía no es una isla (Episkaia, 2020) and the novel Carcoma (Amor de Madre, 2021). At present, she is in the process of editing her second essay, El reino intermedio, and writing her second novel.  

Hunky Mattel is a drag queen from Madrid with great energy who specialises in acrobatics and dance. A participant in the second season of Regias del Drag, she bullishly fights against the cis hetero patriarchy in emotion-filled performances.     

Carolina Meloni is a philosopher, writer, researcher and transfeminist activist. She is a Philosophy lecturer at the University of Alcalá, and her most recent publications include Transterradas: el exilio infantil y juvenil como lugar de memoria (Tren en movimiento, 2019), with M. González de Oleaga and C. Saiegh, Sueño y Revolución (Continta Me Tienes, 2021), Feminismos fronterizos. Mestizas, perras y abyectas (Kaótica Libros, 2021) and La instancia subversiva. Decir lo femenino, ¿es posible? (Akal, 2025). 

Víctor Mora holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a lecturer at Universidad Carlos III and a writer and contributor with different media outlets and programmes, for instance El Ojo Crítico on RTVE and the newspaper 20 Minutos. His research revolves around historical memory, sexuality and gender studies, and notable among his books is ¿Quién teme a lo queer? (Con tinta me tines, 2022).   

Claudia Muñiz is a writer, producer and actress. Her work in film most notably encompasses her screenwriting and lead roles in different independent Cuban feature films. Con sana alegría, a short film she wrote, directed and produced, touches on themes that run through her body of work, such as loneliness, sacrifice, desire, the feminine and daily forms of violence. Over the past ten years, after deciding to emigrate, she has lived in New York, and currently lives in Madrid. During this period her life experiences have diversified, starting from being a chef at major events to being a Playboy Bunny. Her first novel, Rom com, was published in 2024 by Caballo de Troya, and edited by Sabina Urraca.   

Silvia Nanclares holds a degree in Dramaturgy from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. She is one half of the podcast Tomo y Lomo and a columnist with Diario Público. She has also worked with different media and has been part of different performing arts projects, as well as publishing the novel Quién quiere ser madre (Alfaguara, 2017) and working on children’s albums. Nunca voló tan alto tu televisor (Lengua de trapo, 2025) is her most recent publication.  

Ángelo Néstore is a non-binary artist whose work revolves around the poetic understood as a queer territory in which the poem hybridises with music, performance, publishing and cultural management. Néstore has published the poetry books Deseo de ser árbol (Espasa, 2022), Hágase mi voluntad (Pre-Textos, 2020), Actos impuros (Hiperión, 2017), and has taken his poems to the stage. He runs the poetry publishing house Letraversal and co-directs the Irreconciliables International Festival.  

Barda Petarda is a drag queen from Barcelona. Her over-the-top style, experience with puppeteering and absurd comedy create a cartoonesque fantasy. She has no fear of ridicule and is a standard bearer in the fight against gender stereotypes.    

Inés Plasencia is a researcher, teacher and writer. Currently, her concerns revolve around research and writing on fear and the limits of the real and fiction to assimilate death.  

Alana S. Portero is a historian specialised in the Middle Ages, and a playwright, stage director and writer. She regularly contributes to Público and El Diario, and occasionally to Vogue and SModa. She is the author of four poetry collections, a play, and the novel La mala costumbre (Seix Barral, 2023), a literary phenomenon translated into seventeen languages.  

Ariel Rec is a drag queen from Madrid. She was a contestant on the second season of Drag Race España and is a pioneer in making drag more visible on social media more than ten years ago. She actively campaigns for social causes against bullying and works with different foundations, including Apoyo Positivo and Fundación Eddy. Her love for cosplay and cartoons makes her shows a big bundle of fun.   

Margot Rot is a writer and philosopher specialised in cultural theory and criticism. She has collaborated with universities, festivals, cultural centres and museums, and writes for different media outlets. Moreover, her prose and poetry have featured in different anthologies and magazines, and she has published the essay Infoxicación. Identidad, afectos y memoria; o sobre la mutación tecnocultural (Paidós, 2023). 

Juanpe Sánchez López is a writer and academic researcher. His published work includes Desde las gradas (Letraversal, 2021), Superemocional. Una defensa del amor (Continta Me Tienes, 2023) and Tonterías (Letraversal, 2024). Furthermore, he has anthologised, with Berta García Faet, Estrellas vivas. Antología de poesía cursi (Letraversal, 2024) and has contributed to (h)amor7 roto (Continta Me Tienes, 2022) and Antología de Poesía Queer (Espasa, 2024).  

Sangre Fucsia is a sound fanzine which came into being in Madrid in 2013, created by a group of women and dissidents who advocated a radio project from a place of autonomy and joy. More than ten years later, this collaborative podcast continues to set its feminist gaze, dealing with themes that interest and intersect.   

Eugenia Tenenbaum is an art historian specialised in gender perspective. Her work focuses on cultural dissemination and art criticism on social media, and she conducts guided tours, talks and workshops on art and feminisms. Her published work includes La mirada inquieta (Planeta, 2022) and the fictional work Las mujeres detrás de Picasso (Lunwerg Editores, 2023).  

Sara Torres is a writer who centres her theoretical-creative work on analysing desire, the body and discourse through a feminist and interdisciplinary critical apparatus that interweaves psychoanalysis, new materialisms and queer studies. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University in London, and her thesis is entitled The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings. Her published work includes La otra genealogía (Torremozas, 2014), Conjuros y cantos (Kriller71, 2016), Phantasmagoria (La Bella Varsovia, 2019), El ritual del baño (La Bella Varsovia, 2021), Lo que hay (Reservoir Books, 2022), Deseo de perro (Letraversal, 2023) and La seducción (Reservoir Books, 2024).   

Sabina Urraca is a writer and editor. Her most recent published work includes Chachachá (Dueto) (Comisura, 2023), El celo (Alfaguara, 2024) and Escribir antes (Comisura, 2025), and she is a contributor with different media outlets, such as El País, El Cultural and Zenda. Furthermore, she has served as resident editor of Caballo de Troya and was awarded an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing grant from the University of Iowa.  

Alicia Valdés approaches resistance from new perceptions of subjectivity, identities and desire, and her work encompasses writing, performance, curating and bodily experimentation. She is the author of Política del malestar. Por qué no deseamos alternativas al presente (Debate, 2024) and Towards a Feminist Lacanian Left. Psychoanalytical Theory and Intersectional Politics (Routledge, 2022). 

Gad Yola is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Audiovisual Communication who, through her drag practice, creates a critical discourse around heteronormativity and European whiteness. Born in Lima and raised in Madrid, she joins forces to disrupt and rethink institutions, exhibition rooms and Spanish pop culture. In 2024 she released the record Travesti del Perú, an homage to activist and transvestite Giuseppe Campuzano, who died in 2014.