Lucía Lijtmaer Paskvan (born 1977) is a journalist and writer born in Argentina and raised in Barcelona, where her parents went into exile. She is a specialist in pop culture from a gender perspective. She is also cultural curator, literary translator, and university professor. She currently writes for various media, including ''

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'', '' El Diario'', and '.

Career

The daughter of Argentine exiles, she grew up in Barcelona. She has a licentiate in

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from the

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and a Master's in International Journalism from the

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. She specializes in pop culture and writes for various media. She has taught at the

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's Faculty of Digital Communication and the University of Barcelona. She is also curator of the festival "Princesas y Darthvaders", mixing humor and guerrilla culture to talk about

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. In 2018 it celebrated its fourth edition. Lijtmaer recognizes herself as a second-generation exile, and addresses this in the presentation of her first novel ''Casi nada que ponerte'', in which she tackles the reconstruction of the immediate past of a country, Argentina, which exploded in 2001, and the construction of her own personality as the daughter of exiles in Spain. Research for this started in 2008, and her first draft was completed in 2011. It remained in a drawer for a time until the publisher Libros del Lince decided to publish it in 2016. In 2015, Lijtmaer carried out a first-person investigation into the

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that she published with the title ''Quiero los secretos del Pentágono y los quiero ahora'' (I Want the Secrets of the Pentagon and I Want Them Now). In 2017 she published ''Yo también soy una chica lista'', a casual essay in defense of feminism in which the invisible

macho Machismo (; ; ; ) is the sense of being " manly" and self-reliant, a concept associated with "a strong sense of masculine pride: an exaggerated masculinity". Machismo is a term originating in the early 1930s and 1940s best defined as hav ...

mechanisms of pop culture are revealed. She has written, among other periodicals, for '' ADN'' and '' Público'', contributes regularly in the media, has been a university professor, has done radio, and has translated for English musician

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. She currently writes for ''

'', '' El Diario'', and '. Along with Isa Calderón she stars in the biweekly theatrical production ''Deforme Semanal'', a feminist show where, in a humorous way, they criticize the

heteropatriarchy In feminist theory, heteropatriarchy (etymologically from ''heterosexual'' and ''patriarchy'') or cisheteropatriarchy, is a socio-political system where (primarily) cisgender (same gender as identified at birth) and heterosexual males have author ...

Publications

* ''Quiero los secretos del Pentágono y los quiero ahora'' (2015). Capitán Swing. . * ''Casi nada que ponerte'' (2016). Libros del Lince. . * ''Cultura en tensión'' (2016). Various authors: Jordi Oliveras Serrano, Nando Cruz, Lucía Lijtmaer,

César Rendueles César Rendueles (born 1975, Girona) is a Spanish sociologist and essayist. Life Although born in Girona, he grew up in Gijon and lives in Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, was an associate professor at the Carlos III University and visiting ...

, Marina Garcés, Ramon Faura, and Joan Miquel Gual. Rayo Verde. Collection: Ciclogénesis. . * ''Yo también soy una chica lista'' (2017). Editorial Destino. . * ''Ofendiditos'' (2019). Editorial Anagrama. ISBN 9788433916303.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lijtmaer, Lucía 1977 births Living people Journalists from Buenos Aires Spanish feminist writers Spanish journalists Spanish women journalists Spanish translators Alumni of the University of Westminster University of Barcelona alumni Academic staff of the University of Barcelona 21st-century Spanish women writers 21st-century translators English–Spanish translators Argentine emigrants to Spain