Dr. R. Lucas Platero is Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Social Psychology Department (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and director of publications for trans* studies at Bellaterra Publishing House.
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Lucas Platero’s academic journey is strongly linked to his activist life. As a student he was active in feminist and lesbian feminist organisations and also helped to create Spain’s first LGBT university organization in 1994 (RQTR). He has gradually shifted his social activism to an activism based on academic research, to which he has made multiple contributions. He has a double line of publications: the first line is intended for an academic audience in research journals, specializing in political and social attention to sexuality and gender relations in the Spanish context, but also on queer pedagogies, intersectional relationships between disability, gender and sexuality, and public policies. The second line includes a series of 9 books accessible to a general audience, in Spanish.
He has combined academic work with being a vocational training teacher during the last fifteen years (2004-2019), focusing on socio-community interventions. Nevertheless, he has received many well-deserved Spanish awards for his research, and also for his dissertation.
He participated in numerous (Spanish and European) research projects.
Since the start of his transition process, 10 years ago, he is part of a small academic activist community. This is visible in his role in the Bellaterrra Publishing House.
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