In the Spider’s Web

Beatriz Atenciano is a child-youth psychologist specialised in interventions with the children of women who are victims of domestic abuse. She has worked as a psychologist in the consultancy of the Lesbian, Gay, Transexual, Bisexual and Intersexual Collective of Madrid (COGAM) and is co-author of the book Detrás de la pared. Una mirada multidisciplinar acerca de los niños, niñas y adolescentes expuestos a la violencia de género (Serendipity, 2025).

Violeta Assiego is a lawyer specialised in human rights. She conducts research in collaboration with associations and collectives with a gender-, child- and intersectional-based approach. Recently, she has been involved in the studies Aproximación a la monomarentalidad derivada de la violencia de género (An Approach to Single-parent Families Stemming from Gender-based Violence, FAMS, 2023) and Llegar a tiempo. Niñas, niños y adolescentes en situación de riesgo en España (Arriving in Time. Children and Teenagers in a Vulnerable Situation in Spain, Aldeas Infantiles, 2020).

Débora Ávila is a member of La Laboratoria. She supports protective mothers and is a co-author of the report Violencia institucional contra las madres y la infancia (Institutional Violence Against Mothers and Children, Spain’s Ministry of Equality, 2023) and En la tela de araña. Las violencias contra la infancia y la lucha de las madres protectoras (Traficantes de Sueños and La Laboratoria, 2024).

Emanuela Borzacchiello is a historian specialised in the crossroads between femicide violence and political transformation within the framework of Mexican neoliberalism. Her most recent publication is ¡rExistimos! El feminicidio y la telaraña de poderes (Baja Tierra ediciones/Cieg-UNAM, 2023).

Caterina Canyelles is an anthropologist who specialises in the relationship between violence, access to justice and human rights from a feminist perspective, and the author of Machismo y cultura jurídica. Etnografía del proceso judicial de la violencia de género (Virus, 2023).

Susana Draper is a writer, activist and teacher from Uruguay. She is a professor at Princeton University and the author of books such as México 1968: experimentos de la libertad, constelaciones de la democracia (Siglo XXI Editores 2018) and Libres y sin miedo. Horizontes feministas para construir otros sentidos de justicia (Tinta Limón, 2024).

Saida García Casuso is a transfeminist activist. Fat, a dyke, precarious. She is the vice president and co-founder of Euforia. Familias Trans-Aliadas and an expert in socio-community intervention, sexual diversity and gender, specialising in children, youth and family. She is also co-author of the volume Cuando el Estado es violento. Narrativas de violencia contra las mujeres y las disidencias sexuales (Bellaterra, 2023).

Isabel Giménez García is a judge who focuses on children’s rights. Among other undertakings, she is the coordinator of the Association of Women Judges (AMJE).

Laura Iruarrizaga Ballesteros is a lawyer of public international law who specialises in immigration and gender law. She is also a member of the Work Group on Violence from the 8M Commission in Madrid.

Marisa Kohan is a journalist who specialises in gender, development cooperation and human rights. She has covered the struggle of protective mothers in the media for over four years.

Mel de Lima is a mother, activist, decolonial feminist and anti-racist, and a member of Madrecitas, a collective which denounces human rights violations and institutional violence against migrant mothers and their children.

Marta Malo is a writer, translator, activist researcher and a member of La Laboratoria. She is a co-author of Estamos para nosotras. Siete tesis por una práctica radical de los cuidados (Synusia, 2021) and En la tela de araña. Las violencias contra la infancia y la lucha de las madres protectoras (Traficantes de sueños and La Laboratoria, 2024), among others.

Yolanda Mozota holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and is a trainer and specialist in Gestalt therapy and a trauma expert at the University of Alcalá. She is a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood.

María Naredo is a lawyer and feminist researcher who is specialised in human rights and gender. Since 1998, she has conducted research into gender-based violence, discrimination and human rights.

Miren Ortubay is a jurist, lawyer, criminal attorney and university lecturer from Spain. She is the head professor of Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country, and a specialist in gender-based violence and the rights of prisoners.

Laura Pacas is a playwright, stage director and writer. She is part of projects such as Las Caminantas Teatro, made up of female migrant domestic and care workers, and Puente a la Inspiración, which comprises unmentored minors and looks to put their stories on stage.

Pamela Palenciano is an actress, communicator and feminist activist from Andalusia. Her work most notably includes the theatre monologue No solo duelen los golpes (It’s Not Only the Blows that Hurt, 2004), an autobiographical account of gender-based violence through humour and irony.

Marta Pérez is a professor of Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid, a member of the militant research association Entrar Afuera and co-author of the report "Violencia institucional contra las madres y la infancia" (Institutional Violence Against Mothers and Children, Spain’s Ministry of Equality, 2023).

Celeste Perosino is an anthropologist, founder of the Intervention Against Violence Collective. She is the co-author of Historias desaparecidas. Arqueología, memoria y violencia política (Brujas, 2000) and Ruptura. Acerca de la integridad en el cuerpo muerto desaparecido (EAE, 2011).

Berta Sepur is a protective mother who has been criminalised in defending the human rights of children who have suffered male sexual abuse. She also fights against the use of Parental Alienation Syndrome in Spanish courthouses. She participates in the Network of Protective Mothers and is a co-author of the publication En la tela de araña. Las violencias contra la infancia y la lucha de las madres protectoras (Traficantes de Sueños and La Laboratoria, 2024).

Justa Teruel is a bookseller and writer who supports protective mothers. She is a co-author of the publication En la tela de araña. Las violencias contra la infancia y la lucha de las madres protectoras (Traficantes de Sueños and La Laboratoria, 2024).