Esther Ortega Arjonilla

Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla (Móstoles, 20th century) is a Spanish historian, doctor of philosophy in the philosophy of science, and a university professor of Ndowé origin. She is also an antiracist and lesbian feminist activist. Her research centers on themes of sexual diversity, racism, and feminism.

Biography Esther Ortega earned her doctorate in the philosophy of science at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She earned her Master's degree in Feminist theory and is licensed in history, specializing in American anthropology and the History of the Americas, from Complutense University of Madrid.

Ortega has focused her research career on the studies of science, technology, and society, gender, race and ethnicity, queer-feminist theory and its intersections. She is a postgraduate professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Spanish National Research Council at the Complutense University of Madrid and in the Spanish Tufts-Skidmore program. In addition, Ortega has been a lecturer and professor of different courses and lectures that address questions of race, sex, and sexuality, and she has written for Pikara Magazine.

Ortega has been a part of antiracist, feminist, and sexual diversity movements. In addition, she is part of the feminist group "Red.Afrofem."

In 2003, Ortega began working on studies of gender and medical technologies from the perspective of gender studies and with many different national research projects, such as ITEMS, BIOGENTEC, and VIVERTEC. With these, she has worked on the research and development under the Spanish National Research Council's leading science, technology, and gender research with the philosopher Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, titled "Voces múltiples, saberes plurales y tecnologías médicas" .

Publications She has published many articles and collaborated on several books: Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas (Bellaterra, 2017), with co-authors Lucas Platero and María Rosón, Conocimientos, prácticas y activismo de las epistemologías feministas (2019).