Bel Olid

Invitado de Honor

Bel Olid (Mataró, 1977) is a writer and translator, as well as the coordinator of the Catalan Studies programme at the University of Chicago, where they teach language and literature.
Their work, which engages with contemporary debates on gender, identity and sexuality, has been translated into several languages. In September they will publish the essay La mare incompleta (The Incomplete Mother), which explores the hidden costs of assisted reproduction.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Feminist gaze and male guilt
From where one writes
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels