Laura Macaya-Andrés will give a talk entitled 'Punctures, Ghosts And Zero Rock & Roll' at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences

The Equality Committee of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University has organized a conference on March 22, 2023, on the Eskoriatza campus (room D.0.3). As part of the event, researcher and expert in feminism Laura Macaya-Andrés will give a talk entitled Punctures, ghosts and zero rock & roll: sexual panic, capitalism and the regulation of sexuality. The talk will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will be open to all interested parties. Laura Macaya-Andrés is a social educator, anarcho-feminist activist, expert in gender violence and researcher on the perspectives of antipunitivist feminism.

In the words of Macaya-Andrés, “narratives of sexual terror are favoring a new reactionary turn. On the one hand, they feed the fears that are endemic to a feminine sexuality constructed as fragile and fearful. On the other hand, they satisfy regulatory desires and neoliberal punitive turns by favoring states of alarm and emergency that act as mechanisms of docility in the face of control and state punishment. We want to have fun and we want a home!”

Laura Macaya-Andrés

Laura Macaya-Andrés (Barcelona, 1979) is a social educator specializing in gender perspectives, evaluation, intervention, and assistance to women in situations of gender violence or in situations of social vulnerability. She is also an instructor in various undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and she trains professionals in gender violence. She stands out for her criticism of punitiveness in addressing sexual violence and for her defense of transgressive femininity. She is the author of works such as Alianzas rebeldes. Un feminismo más allá de la identidad [Rebel alliances. Feminism beyond identity] (2021), among others. Until 2021, she was the director of a safe house for victims of gender violence in Catalonia; she is currently the director of the Genera association, an organization that works to defend sexual and gender rights and freedoms.

The conference on March 22 is the culmination of the work that Macaya-Andrés will do in the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences. In fact, throughout that week, the researcher and activist will facilitate various sessions with Faculty students and teaching staff.