Ana G. Alvarez is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Center of Latin American andCaribbean Studies (New York University).  She holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Gender and Latin American Studies from Birkbeck College, and has taught at the universities of Bielefeld (Germany), London (UK), and Zurich (Switzerland). Her work has been published in academic journals and collections, most recently in the anthology Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader (Routledge 2018), in Revista Uruguaya de Ciencias Políticas (2022). Currently working on a documentary on old transwomen and repression during the 70- and 80 in collaboration with the Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina.