Cristina Mancero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1977) is an audiovisual communicator who studied Documentary Film at the University of Chile and Composition & Rhetoric at the University of Louisville. Her interests move across gender, the LGBTIQ+ community, feminisms, disability theory, poetry, documentary film and sign language.

Two decades ago she lost a vocal cord, and since then she has been asking questions about identity, voice, disability, being or not being / having or not having. Along this path, she has addressed the theme of the “lost vocal cord”, directly and indirectly, through documentary, photography, poetry and essay.

In 2016 she published her essay Aclarando la garganta and, that same year, was included in the poetry anthology Voces Nuevas of the Colección Torremozas (Spain). In 2017 she took part in the art exhibition Cuerpos que se miran. Her work, titled “Y un hueco nunca más se cerró”, encompassed photography, sound installation and poetry. This work was also shown at the 8th ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain, 2022). In November 2023 she published the book Cuerpario, about invisible disabilities, together with seven writers from Ecuador.