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Lia García (La Novia Sirena) Mexico City. She is a performance artist, educator and poet.

Her trans activism has not only focused over time on defending the human rights of LGBTIQ+ communities in Mexico but has also involved creating performative, educational and poetic proposals for public spaces and institutions of symbolic complexity such as prisons, hospitals, schools, military camps and markets, among others.

What has characterized Lia García's militancy has been that all her proposals are traversed by aesthetics of radical tenderness, a concept coined and conceptually developed by her in 2012 and that today configures a very particular form of political activism throughout Abya Yala, Latin America. Her affective and artistic-pedagogical interruptions, in addition, deeply question the effects that patriarchal violence exerts on the bodies that disobey the normativity of gender and sexuality, as well as the multiple forms of affectation that we go through living in Mexico, a context of pain and the second country with cases of transfeminicide. “It hurts me what hurts you”, declares Lia among her trans siblings.

She detonates an intense pedagogy of love in spaces she calls “edges” and creates dystopias, fractures and other possibilities of restorative justice and collective healing.

Author of the project “Cucarachas literarias”, the first archive of LGBTIQ children's and youth literature. She has actively collaborated in the pedagogical and accompaniment area in the Asociación por la Infancias Trans, the Red de Familias Trans México, the Red de Juventudes Trans México of which she is co-founder with Jessica Marjane and Luchadoras Mx. Published by Editorial Sexto Piso, Almadía, Editorial Sitges and the Instituto Hemisférico de Performance where it was presented in 2019 in its latest edition. Her work has been taken to the IV International Theater Festival of Sao Paulo in 2019, the X Performing Arts Meeting “Las otras formas de mover el agua” in Costa Rica 2020, the first meeting of Performance and Theater experiment “Fallas del acontecimiento” in Dominican Republic 2023, the International Children and Youth Book Fair editions 2019, 2021 and

Évolet Aceves (Toluca, Estado de México), es poetisa, cuentista, novelista, ensayista y cronista. Además de escritora, es fotógrafa y psicóloga. Como periodista realiza entrevistas a personajes del mundo cultural. Forma parte de la antología Monstrua (UNAM, 2022), donde publicó cuento, poesía y fotografía. Autora de la novela Tapizado corazón de orquídeas negras (Tusquets, 2023), con la que se convirtió en la primera mujer trans en México en publicar una novela con una protagonista trans/travesti, y que ha sido presentada en múltiples ferias del libro y universidades de México, Estados Unidos, Polonia y Alemania. Desde 2022 escribe su columna Jardín de Espejos en el medio digital Pie de Página. Ha colaborado en revistas, semanarios, suplementos culturales y periódicos, como: Milenio, Dominga (Milenio), Nexos, Replicante, La Lengua de Sor Juana, Praxis, El Cultural (La Razón), Este País, entre otros. Estudió Psicología en la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México y en la Universidad de Varsovia en Polonia, y en Estados Unidos la maestría Chicana and Chicano Studies en la Universidad de Nuevo México. Ha realizado dos exposiciones fotográficas individuales en México. Trabajó en Capgemini, Amazon y Microsoft. Actualmente estudia el MFA en Escritura Creativa y da clases de Español en la Universidad de Nueva York.

Évolet Aceves (Toluca, State of Mexico) is a poet, fiction, and non-fiction writer (short story, novel, essay, chronicle, and columns). In addition to being a writer, she is also a photographer and psychologist. As a journalist, she interviews figures from the cultural world. She is part of the anthology "Monstrua" (UNAM, 2022), where she published short stories, poetry, and photography. She is the author of the novel "Tapizado corazón de orquídeas negras" (Tusquets, 2023), with which she became the first trans woman in Mexico to publish a novel with a trans/transvestite protagonist, and which has been presented in multiple Book Fairs and universities in Mexico, United States, Poland, and Germany. Since 2022 she has written her column Jardín de Espejos in the digital media Pie de Página. She has collaborated with magazines, cultural supplements, and newspapers, such as Milenio, Dominga (Milenio), Nexos, Replicante, La Lengua de Sor Juana, Praxis, El Cultural (La Razón), Este País, among others. She studied Psychology at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and the University of Warsaw in Poland, and earned a Master's degree in Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico in the United States. She has held two solo photography exhibitions in Mexico. She has worked at Capgemini, Amazon, and Microsoft. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches Spanish at New York University.

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