Gender and Feminist Theory

Ines is PhD student at Latin American studies in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) where she explores the impact of the war on drugs and open pit mining activities in the Territorial shaping and Forced Displacement in Guerrero, Mexico, within a gender and ecological focus. She has a Degree in History, a Master in communications and Journalism and a Master in Anthropology, that she obtained studying socioecological conflicts in Mapuche and peasant communities at the South of Chile. Since 2008 she has worked as a consultant and communication officer in human rights, gender, drug policy and migration organizations in several organizations, such as the Center for Human Rights Tlachinollan in Guerrero, Mexico; the International Drug Policy Consortium in London, the Latin American Water Tribunal in Costa Rica, OXFAM UK- Guatemala, the Institute to Study and Report on Migration and the International Labour Organization – Mexico.

As a journalist, she has also collaborated and collaborates as a freelance journalist for various media, such as Pikara Magazine, LolaMora Productions, Vice, Contralínea, Sin Embargo, CXTX, El Salto o Milenio Semanal and Es Posible, among many others.

Lucia Nunez Rebolledo. PhD in Social Sciences from the “Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (UAM-X)” specialized in women and gender relationships research. Masters Degree in Criminology and Bachelor’s Degree in Law. Medal of Merit to the Academy by the UAM-X in 2015. Later she made a postdoctoral stay at the “Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas” at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with the support of a CONACYT scholarship. Currently, she is a researcher in the “Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG-UNAM)” (Center of Research and Studies in Gender).

She is a teacher in the Faculty of Medicine (UNAM) on victimology for the bachelor’s degree program on forensic science. Also, she is a professor of public policies and gender perspective.

Furthermore, she has participated and conducted several courses, congress, colloquium and seminars related to gender studies and law, critical theory penal judicial, women human rights, feminisms and the criminology criticism. She has provided courses to judges, magistrates and public prosecutors approaching subjects such promotion, administration and enforcement of justice with a gender perspective, as well. Her subjects of interest and study are focused on the regulations and (re)production of gender subjectivities through the criminal law and the legal discourses, in addition to the feminisms, the sexuality, the law and the rights. The feminist criticism criminology and the critical victimology. She is a member of the “Sistema Nacional de Investigadores”, CONACYT and the “Red Multidisciplinaria para la Investigación sobre la Discriminación en la Ciudad de México” dependant from the “Consejo para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminación en la Ciudad de México”. (Counsel for the prevention and deterrence of the discrimination in Mexico City) Also, she belongs to the network called “Red Tematica de Ciencias Forenses”, member of Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network through the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University, and lastly, a member also of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

She is the author of “El Género en la ley penal. Crítica feminist de la illusion punitiva”, which was published by the “Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG-UNAM)”. “Justicia y genero. Perspectivas emergentes” published by the “Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas UNAM” in conjunction with “SHCP” and “Buenas Prácticas en el Juzgar: El género y los derechos humanos” published by the same institute and the “Comision de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal”, are among her most recent publications.

Moreover, she wrote the article: “Impunidades y castigos generizados. Violencia contra las mujeres y Estado” in the magazine “Tramas. Subjetividades y Procesos Sociales” issue number 53: “Violencia contra las mujeres y niños” (Violence against women and children).

PhD Student, Comparative Literature, Yale University

I work at the intersection of Spanish, German, Lusophone and Nahuatl literature, intellectual history and critical theory (traditions of Marxism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis).

I am particularly interested in the epistemological frameworks for a decolonial queer theory today, the question of different grammars of gender under (neo)colonialism, and the notion of sexuality and norm in colonial texts from the 16th century written in Spanish and Nahuatl. 

Before coming to Yale, I studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Salamanca (Spain).