Alicia Valdés (Madrid, 1992) holds a PhD in Humanities and is a political scientist. Her work seeks to address resistance and subversion from different approaches that allow new perceptions of subjectivity, the body, identities, and desire. Her approach is transdisciplinary and focuses on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. She is the author of the book Towards a Feminist Lacanian Left, Psychoanalytical Theory and Intersectional Politics (Routledge, 2022).

Her work has been published with several high-impact scientific journals and publishers, and she has been invited to different international and national institutions and conferences. She has also collaborated with different cultural institutions and different digital media writing opinion columns.

Her latest published book is Política del malestar (Debate/PRH, 2024), an essay that analyzes the contradictions of nowadays politics through a psychoanalytical perspective.