She studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialization in aesthetics and politics (1973–1980).
"[2] It was founded by Marcela Olavarrieta along with several other foreign feminists[3] who did not want to enter public life and who worked in what was called "Small Self-Consciousness Groups.
[3] The group declared itself to be socialist, and it tied itself to the Mexican Communist Party, Trotskyist organizations and independent unions from at that time: STUNAM and SITUAM.
In 1996, she co-founded ComuArte, A.C. (impulsed by Colectivo Mujeres en la Música, A.C., founded by the composer Leticia Armijo) opening up the Palace of Fine Arts' Adamo Boari Hall to contemporary Mexican visual artists.
[7] She maintains a strong criticism of neoliberal policies both about the sexual diversity market and queer theories promoted by academia in Latin America.