Juan Vicente Aliaga is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Author of Bajo belly. He portrays sexuality in contemporary culture and art (1997) and Art and Gender Issues (2004), as well as co-author of Identity and Difference. On gay culture in Spain (1997), he has curated exhibitions dedicated to the work of Pierre Molinier (1999), Claude Cahun (2001 and 2011), Pepe Espaliú (2003), Hannah Höch, (2004), VALIE EXPORT (2004) , Akram Zaatari (2011), Paz Errázuriz (2015), Lea Lublin (2018) or Ilse Bing (2022). He has also organized the exhibition “The Battle of the Genders” (2007), about the seventies and feminism, and “Everywhere. Policies of sexual diversity in art» (2009). He has collaborated in the conception of the publication Micropolitics. Art and everyday life. 2001-1968 (2003). In Akal he has published Phallic Order (2007) and A Persecuted World (2023).