Philosopher and queer activist, born in Burgos, Spain (1970), Preciado achieved an honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Comillas before gaining a Masters in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School for Social Research in New York, where she studied with Agnes Seller and Jacques Derrida.

Currently undertaking her doctorate in Philosophy and Architectural Theory at Princeton, Preciado is also the author of Manifiesto contrasexual (2000), acclaimed by the French critics as one of the most influential and provocative intellectual works of the new century.

She is also the author of many articles among which: "Multitudes Queer" (Multitudes 12, Paris 2003), "Basura y Género", (Eseté, Donostia, 2004) "Savoirs_Vampires@War" (Multitudes 20, Paris 2005), "Pornotopia: Pornography and Architecture in Playboy Houses" (Cold War /Hot Houses, Princeton, 2004), "Gigantas/Casas/Ciudades. Notas para una topografía política del género y de la raza" (Artecontexto, no. 8. Autumn 2005) and "Sex Design" (Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2007).

She teaches in different Spanish and foreign Universities including Paris VIII University, Saint Denis (France) and heads the workshop of Genre Technologies in the Independent Studies Program of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelone (Spain). She has recently published T Junkie (Espasa Calpa) in Spanish which will be published in French (Grasset) in September 2008.