TOWARDS THE FOURTH WAVE OF FEMINISM: Wanting to finally have it all

Since 2017, she has been a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) under CONACyT. She currently holds Level 1 status in Area 6, Social Sciences. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Mexico's Alternate Expert before the Belém do Pará Convention. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences with a concentration in Women and Gender Relations from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Her dissertation received the 2015 Academic Mention Award, was approved for publication by the Center for Women's Anthropology Studies in 2018, and was released under a Creative Commons license in 2020.

She also holds a Master 2 degree in Gender and Development from Université Diderot-Paris 7, a Master's degree in Gender and Cultural Studies with a focus on Social Sciences from the Universidad de Chile, and a Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia). She has been a university lecturer since 2011 and is the co-author of three books addressing topics such as youth and masculinity, sexual consumption, and men's involvement in human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Additionally, she has authored four manuals aimed at eradicating violence against women in Mexico.

She coordinated the book Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Masculinity: Challenges for the Administration of Justice and has published academic articles, essays, and book chapters specializing in gender theories and feminist political action. She also coordinated and founded the Seminar on Gender Studies: Contemporary Theories and Political Action (first generation, 2016), the Diploma Program for the Training of Equality Agents (first generation, 2017), and the Seminar/Diploma Program on the Reconstruction of Mexico’s Social Fabric: Citizenship, Democracy, and a Culture of Peace (first generation, 2018).

Additionally, she is the author of the online courses Gender and Feminisms: Theoretical Currents and Equality Practices and Masculinities: Theories and Practices on Being a Man.

Contact: melissafernandezchagoya@gmail.com

Feminist. She holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Professor of the PhD in Critical Gender Studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and of the Master in Theology and Contemporary World of the Department of Religious Sciences of the same institution. Professor of the Master's Degree in Gender Studies and Theology at the Theological Community of Mexico. Professor of Theology at Lasalle University. She is a member of Teólogas e Investigadoras Feministas de México. Director of Sofíaς / Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Theology. Founding member of the Mexican Academy of Theology of the Pontifical University of Mexico. She is a member of the Red de Teólogas, Pastoras y Lideresas Cristianas (Red Tepali).

Contact: saroma24@gmail.com

D. in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology, level 1. 2007 Medal of Academic Merit awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. In 2005 she did a research stay at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid. Master in Philosophy from UNAM and member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Association of Aesthetic Studies (Amest; 2011-present). Specialist in political philosophy, aesthetics and political hermeneutics. Member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico (2004-present). Editorial coordinator of Cuadernos Amest numbers 2 and 3; co-author of Cuadernos Amest numbers 1, 2 and 4. Coordinator and co-author of Reflexiones en torno al ser del arte (Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2013) and Revolución de independencia e identidad cultural (Mexico: Asociación Mexicana de Estudios de Estética, 2013).

Contact: christina63@gmail.com

She is a poet and storyteller. She was born in Santiago de Cuba and has lived in Mexico since 1992. Her notebook Últimos días de un país won the 2019 Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize in Mazatlán; with Old Music Island she won the 2017 National LGBTTTI Zacatecas Poetry Prize and Insomnios en la noche del espejo won the “Nicolás Guillén” International Poetry Prize in 1999. Author of the novel Espejo de tres cuerpos (Mexico, Quimera, 2009), and the books of short stories Con la boca abierta (Madrid, Odisea, 2006; Mexico, Voces en Tinta, 2017) and Hotel Pánico (Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana, 2013), as well as fifteen collections of poems, the most recent La fiesta del dolor y otros cantos (Mexico, Los Libros del Perro, 2020). Her first two decades of poetic work were gathered in Manuscrito hallado en alta mar (Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana, 2011) and Bajo esa luna extraña (Madrid, Efory Atocha, 2011). Compiler of Antología de la poesía cubana del exilio (Valencia, Aduana Vieja, 2011) and Género y sus perspectivas (Mexico, UNAM, 2022), and co-editor of Versas y diversas, muestra de poesía lésbica mexicana contemporánea (Aguascalientes, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2020). She founded and organized the series Escritoras Latinoamericanas and Bulevar Arcoíris in the framework of the Feria Internacional del Libro del Palacio de Minería. She is editor of the Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial de la UNAM.

Contact: odette_alonsoyodu@yahoo.es

Argentine artist and music therapist. Singer, composer, guitarist and producer. She has been vocalist of Jaime Torres (Misa criolla, with Mercedes Sosa), with whom she toured nationally and internationally. Artistic ambassador of her country in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain and the United States. She has worked in gender policies for prevention and empowerment, giving clinics, concerts and workshops. She has supported several human rights organizations, among them Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, in Argentina. In Mexico, she has collaborated with the Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatura Indígenas (CELALI) and the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (Inali); currently, she collaborates with the Red Nacional de Refugios para mujeres víctimas de violencias machistas.

Contact: natisimoncini@gmail.com

Feminist by necessity, self-defense instructor by love, academic by strategy. PhD in Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco. Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica of the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (Unicach), where she co-founded the postgraduate program in Feminist Studies and Intervention. She has published Sólo las amantes serán inmortales / Ensayos y escritos en estudios culturales y feminismo (San Cristóbal de las Casas [Chiapas]: University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas, 2017), Impersonating the one who one is not / Modernización, criminalidad y no mujeres en la Bogotá de 1920 (San Cristóbal de las Casas [Chiapas]: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, 2018) and Blanquitud / Una lectura desde la literatura y el feminismo descolonial (Bogotá: En la Frontera-Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación y Acción Feminista, 2020).

Contact: maria.garzon@unicach.mx

Areas of interest: bodies and corporealities, fatness and feminisms, Severance Pay (CTS), diversities and dissidences, and methodological innovation. PhD candidate in Critical Gender Studies at the Ibero-American University. Diploma in Body Studies and Embodiment from El Cuerpo Descifrado. Master's in Anthropology and Development from the University of Chile. Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History. Teacher and researcher at the National Institute of Public Health. Collaborator with the Continuing Education Department at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, in the course Methodology, Feminisms, and Gender and in the course Human Rights and Non-Discrimination. Consultant for various governmental institutions and civil society organizations. She specializes in critical studies on fatness and technoscience feminisms from the discourse analysis of obesity and its materialization in bariatric surgery.

Contact: izchel.cosio@gmail.com

He holds a PhD in Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Full-time tenured professor at the National Pedagogical University. Member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology, level 1. Professor with a desirable profile from the Program for the Professional Development of Teachers (Prodep). He is part of three international research networks dedicated to the study of migration, health, and sexual well-being. He has participated in research and community intervention projects on masculinities, violence, homophobia, sexuality, and health, and has coordinated them. Responsible for the academic body of Prodep on sexuality, identity, and well-being. President of the Regional Mexico Network of the International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR). Member of the Executive Council of the Mexican Academy of Men's Gender Studies. His academic work was recognized with the Youth Award of the Federal District, awarded by the Youth Institute (Injuve).

Contact: ilozano@upn.mx

Martial artist, Nipón Kempo teacher, and Casino Dance (Cuban salsa) instructor. He has professional training in Peace Education, Nonviolence and Human Rights, Community Intervention, Gender with a critical analysis of masculinity, Re-education of Aggressive Men, and Violence Analysis; Artistic and Aesthetic Education, and Psychocorporal Expression. He studied for a degree in Visual Arts at UNAM and the Multinational Seminar on Contemporary Art in the Comprehensive Photography and Alternative Media Program at the Centro de la Imagen of CENART-INBA. He is a consultant, educator, and speaker with over 15 years of experience training around 15,000 people on topics such as creative processes, human development, aesthetic and artistic education, self-awareness, gender, critical analysis of masculinity, human relationships, psycho-emotional support and containment, inclusive and non-sexist language, culture of peace and non-violence, and prevention of discrimination and gender-based violence. He coordinated the national distribution editorial project. Visual explorations in visual arts and education with a gender perspective. She worked in the general coordination of the central team of the National Project Opening Schools for Equity and Nonviolence of the Organization of Ibero-American States and the SEP.

Contact: hectorivandelgado@gmail.com

She is a writer, oral storyteller, and performance artist. Activist and defender of human rights for trans people. Anti-racist feminist learner in a living and continuous process of decolonization. She co-founded the Trans Youth Network Mexico in 2016, along with her sister Jessica Marjane. In 2019, they co-founded the TransMarikitas Archive of LGBT Children's and Young Adult Literature, along with their life partner Canuto Roldán. His pedagogical projects have focused on building affective bridges between trans experience, activism, and the sociopolitical context through artistic performance, carried out in complex spaces (prisons, schools, public squares, markets, and hospitals, among others) that oppress and imprison the identities of sexual dissent.

Contact: garciage24@gmail.com