SubjectFeminism and women
Barcelona, capital of comics. Who’s (still) afraid of manga?
We have had access to manga publications for more than thirty years. More and more international publishers are launching new comic...
An uncertain futureAnother form of city
Today’s city no longer offers the necessary living conditions for most of its inhabitants, as a result of a production model designed to make people productive, but...
“I think that the fear of death is what brings me to make films”
Carla Simón
In Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993), Carla Simón fictionalised her experience of being adopted by her aunt and uncle when she was six years old, following the death...
An uncertain future'Ok, doomer'. Climate anxiety and imaginaries of collapse
The collective expression of fear turns individual anxiety into collective paralysis, and, as far as the climate crisis is concerned, this is the fastest and surest...
An uncertain futureThe future is not set in stone
Crises are occurring one after the other and the turmoil they cause is hitting us harder and harder. People are beginning to realise that the wellbeing we enjoy may...
“There are no neurobiological reasons for discrimination”
Mara Dierssen
Mara Dierssen is a neurobiologist and one of the country’s major communicators of popular science. She studies the human brain, and, more specifically,...
Women in the audiovisual industry. Flash in the pan or rising trend
The number of female filmmakers has been burgeoning in the past few years. The presence of female directors, screenwriters, producers, and so on, is growing...
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