Sayak Valencia has a PhD in philosophy, theory, and feminist criticism, from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is Senior Research Professor B in the Department of Cultural Studies of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, CONACYT Research Center, and a member of the National System of Researchers. She has given seminars on borders, violence, narco-culture, gore capitalism, transfeminism, Chicano feminism, postcolonial feminism, and queer art at universities in Europe and the American continent. His recent works include Gorekapitalismus (2021), Gore Capitalism (2018), and many articles and chapters in Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Mexico, Argentina, the US, and Colombia, among others.