SubjectFeminism and women
Lessons from the crisisInequality in the age of disconnection
The economic crisis has widened the gaps (labour, generation, gender and fiscal) that contribute to exacerbating inequality. If societies continue to increase these...
Knitting spaces of feminist thought
Fina Birulés
Distilling thought involves the strenuous task of condensing sense and syntactic skill. Those who know Fina Birulés know of her tenacious precision in thought and...
I am an adulteress, too
Her name was María Ángeles Muñoz and she was the cause of the rebellious catchphrase of solidarity a multitude of women also adopted: ‘I am an adulteress, too”. This...
Charlotte
Charlotte’s story is the unique story of a girl immersed in a tragic family legacy, a lineage of suicides, a litany of inherited deaths which is abruptly...
“The hypocrisy I’ve seen and experienced is what has driven me to challenge my society”
Joumana Haddad
The Lebanese activist Joumana Haddad (Beirut, 1970) is one of...
The street kid who became an artist
Lita Cabellut
Anyone who is close to her will tell you that watching her create is a work of art in itself. Her studio is the scene of thousands of creative battles, where paint...
Maria-Mercè Marçal in present continuous
Twenty years after her death, the work of the poet and fiction author who was ‘three times a rebel’ in her own words, is seeing a renewed vitality in the political...
“The success of Permagel was like another flash flood that washed over me”
Eva Baltasar
She was unjustly obscure until only very recently and that may have been largely due to poetry.
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