Alicia is a writer and psychoanalyst; she has a background in political science and holds a PhD in the humanities.
Her work is in a constant state of transformation, exploring resistance and subversion from perspectives that open up new ways of understanding subjectivity, the body, identities and desire. At the same time, her aim is to engage in various forms of creative practice, ranging from writing and research to performance, curation and experimentation with bodies and relationships.
Her approach is transdisciplinary, focusing on psychoanalysis, philosophy and politics.
She is the author of Politics of Discomfort: Why We Do Not Desire Alternatives to the Present and Towards a Feminist Lacanian Left: Psychoanalytical Theory and Intersectional Politics (Routledge, 2022). Her work has been published by various publishers and in high-impact academic journals, and she has been invited to speak at various institutions and international and national conferences.
She has also collaborated with various institutions such as La Casa Encendida (Curated: Lapsus Linguae. 2025), the Conde Duque Centre for Contemporary Culture (Curated: La Muerte de la Lectora. 2023), the National Classical Theatre Company (Epilogue, Tenderness and Defeat, 2021), the KBR Mapfre Foundation, and Raum 404 (Germany) (Curated by: Psychotropic Queer Visions 2018), amongst others. She also contributes to various digital media outlets by writing opinion columns.
