Laura Lecuona

Laura Lecuona studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has worked in publishing since 1993. She was editorial coordinator in Editorial Paidós Mexicana for eleven years, children’s books editorial manager in Ediciones SM for seven years, and has worked as freelance publishing editor, copy editor, proofreader and translator for some of the main publishing houses in the Spanish language, such as Penguin Random House, Océano, Norma, Ediciones B, Planeta and Fondo de Cultura Económica, as well as public institutions including Secretaría de Educación Pública, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (UNAM), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and British Council. As a translator, she masters a wide range of topics, from philosophy and social sciencies to young adult fiction, illustrated books for children, biographies, memoirs, adult fiction… She’s a member of Asociación Mexicana de Traductores Literarios (Ametli). As a lifelong feminist, she’s one of the first Mexican women to have voiced criticism towards the transition of children and the harms of gender identity ideology, and consequently one of the first to have been cancelled and to have been made redundant and lost job opportunities because of their views. As a popularizer of feminism, she is regularly invited as a lecturer to radical feminist conferences and writes short pieces for several independent media and news outlets. She is author of Las mujeres son seres humanos (Secretaría de Cultura, 2016), a short introduction to feminism. As an activist, she was part of a group against violence against women from a very young age. In 2017 she founded Feministas Mexicanas contra Vientres de Alquiler (Femmva), a grassroots organisation against surrogacy, and is Mexico’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International.