Alicia Miyares

Alicia Miyares Fernández (born 30 April 1963) is a Spanish philosopher, feminist, researcher, and women's rights activists. She has served as the spokesperson for several feminist organizations including anti-womb renting No Somos Vasijas and Recav. She has been involved with the efforts to keep abortion legal, writing the manifesto for the 2014 Tren de la Libertad. Miyares Fernández was active in advocating feminist causes ahead of the 2019 Spanish general elections.

Miyares did her Philosophy Doctorate at the University of Oviedo on the presence of women in the Spanish government's elected roles. She is the head of the Philosophy Department and a professor at the Instituto Humanejos de Parla in Madrid. She has won several prizes for her work.

Feminism and women's rights activism Miyares Fernández is a Spanish philosopher, feminist, researcher, and women's rights activists. She is the president of No Somos Vasijas, an anti-womb renting feminist organization, which she helped found in 2015.

Miyares Fernández espouses a feminist philosophy that says, "the time for good words has ended." She has said, "Equality and Democracy should almost be the same thing, democracy without equality would not be real." Miyares Fernández has argued that the Spanish educational system has served to undermine women's rights by delaying equality. In 2017, she participated in a debate about womb renting in Spain and was quoted by El País as saying, "I think one of the strongest desires of people is to be parents. There are real life dramas: women who do not have a uterus, who have suffered cancer, or the case of homosexual couples ... How can I not understand that frustration? But you can not put your desires above rights. The body is the limit of what can be bought and sold."

In November 2018, Miyares Fernández participated in Vulnerable Maternities Day in Valencia. She participated as a spokesperson for No Somos Vasijas and Recav.

Ahead of the 2019 Spanish general elections, Miyares Fernández was very vocal about anti-womb renting . On 9 April 2019, Miyares Fernández was part of a group of Spanish feminist women who published their prostitution abolitionist and anti-womb renting manifesto for feminist goals they wanted to see appear on party manifestos ahead of the 2019 general elections. As of 2012, she is the head of the Philosophy Department and a professor at the Instituto Humanejos de Parla in Madrid.

The University of the Balearic Islands scheduled some conferences as part of their 2018 Summer University of Gender Studies. Miyares Fernández gave a presentation on fourth-wave feminism during the Summer University. She was scheduled to participate again in 2019.

Miyares Fernández has served as the Cabinet of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the Government of Asturias. She has also served as the technical adviser of the Equality Unit "Woman and Science" of the Ministry of Education and Science. 2018: Premio Feminista de Honor en la XXI Edición de los Premios Mujeres Progresistas 2018, otorgado por la Federación de Mujeres Progresistas.