MariaCarolina is known online and through her activism as SinturaConEse.
She writes a bi-weekly newsletter in Spanish where she escapes from the constraints of academic writing, returns to the comfort of writing in her mother tongue, and experiences the joy of creative critical writing.
She co-founded the Colombian feminist platform SietePolas where, for six years, she wrote a blog and produced content for Instagram and Twitter. This platform, a pioneer in digital feminist activism in Colombia, disseminated feminist analyses and debates to its audience of more than 50,000 followers. SinturaConEse and her fellow writers at this collective also offered their expertise in critical gender analyses to multiple print and digital publications in Colombia. They also became actively involved in legal and political activism for reproductive rights, particularly as part of the Causa Justa movement, which achieved the decriminalization of abortion in Colombia in 2022.
As a Public Humanities Fellow from UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and in collaboration with SillónEstudios, she designed, produced and hosted SietePolas: El Podcast, a podcast that documents the lives, joys, and struggles of feminists in their day to day lives, their work, and their activism.