I have always been drawn to what remains out of focus: the forms of power that become more effective as they fade from view, the forms of knowledge that each era consecrates as legitimate, and the voices that dominant narratives relegate to silence.

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At the intersection of philosophy and the social sciences, my path has been shaped by a persistent question: how can we think about the present through its tensions, its margins and its possibilities for transformation?

 

Growing up in Son Gotleu —a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Palma, marked for decades by social stigma—, being the first person in my family to go to university and to come out all shaped many of the questions that now run through my research. Over time, I came to understand that my work did not arise from books alone, but also from my own experience.

 

My involvement in the 15M movement added a collective dimension to these questions: the conviction that democracy is not merely a form of government, but also a struggle over what we hold in common. For many years, my academic path was also marked by precarity and uncertainty, an experience that left its imprint on how I understand the university and intellectual work.

 

I graduated in Philosophy and completed a PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), with a European Doctorate distinction and cum laude honours. My academic career has developed primarily between Mallorca and Coimbra, two places that have shaped my life and intellectual outlook, as well as my research, teaching and public engagement.

 

For a decade, I worked at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra, one of the leading international centres for the epistemologies of the South and critical thought. There, I took part in multidisciplinary projects and research teams in which the study of inequality, democracy and human rights intersected with questions that run through contemporary philosophy: what counts as knowledge, how subjectivities are formed, and how the boundaries of recognition and exclusion are drawn.

 

This path gradually led my work towards a critical study of modernity and coloniality, and of the ways in which both shape forms of knowledge, political organisation and subjectivity. From there, my research has developed around three interrelated lines of inquiry: decolonial thought and the epistemologies of the South; democracy, power and collective action; and gender, masculinities and sexual dissidence. Rather than treating these as independent fields, I understand them as complementary perspectives from which to question what is taken for granted and explore possibilities for transformation.

 

Alongside this work, I have pursued a sustained commitment to translating and disseminating decolonial thought in the Spanish-speaking world.

 

I am currently a tenured contract senior lecturer in contemporary philosophy at the UIB, where I combine teaching and research with knowledge-transfer projects focused on critical education, equality and human rights.

 

I am a member of two research groups: the UIB Research Group on Inequalities, Gender and Public Policy and the CES Research Group on Sexualities.

 

I have never understood philosophy as a room closed off from the world, nor as an archive in which inherited answers are kept. I see it as a living and situated practice: a way of opening up questions, developing concepts and imagining other ways of understanding and inhabiting both individual and collective life.

 

Guided by this conviction, I write for a range of media outlets and take part in public initiatives aimed at promoting diversity and social justice. I collaborate with the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB), serve as an expert member of the LGTBIQ Council of the Balearic Islands, and co-founded Homes Transitant, an association committed to equality and the transformation of masculinities. I understand this work as a natural extension of critical practice: creating spaces for reflection in which thought can engage with experience and help expand our collective capacities for understanding and action.

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