Darrere les persianes

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Breu història de les lesbianes a Barcelona

Author/s: Isabel Franc (script), Rosa Navarro (Illustrator) and Maria Giralt (original idea)
Collection: Barcelona Memory in Comic Strips

Imatge de la coberta del llibre 'Darrere les persianes'

Researching and reflecting the history of lesbians in Barcelona became the mission of two young master’s students when they realised the extent to which this story had been silenced. With the guarantors of historical memory, the experience of this history’s protagonists and the documents they gathered as a starting point, they take us on a journey in the vernacular of the comic that begins with the leading figures of the Second Spanish Republic, like Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Irene Polo and Anna M. Martínez Sagi.

They reveal the brutality of the Women’s Protection Board, the communicative codes used in clandestinity, the resistance during the dictatorship and the social, cultural, artistic and celebratory explosion of the Spanish transition to democracy, before reaching the turning point represented by the law allowing same-sex marriage in Spain.

History

Society

Women

LGBTQI+

Franco's regime

Feminism

Rights

Comic

Isabel Franc

Writer, columnist and a lecturer for the Master’s in Gender and Communication, she began her literary career with Entre todas las mujeres, a finalist for the La Sonrisa Vertical prize. She is the author of the celebrated Lola Van Guardia trilogy. She received the Shangay award with the novel No me llames cariño, the Jennifer Quiles award for the graphic novel Alícia en un món real and the VII Terenci Moix LGBT Literature award for Elogio del Happy End. She coordinated and edited Las HumoristAs. Ensayo poco serio sobre mujeres y humor. Her latest novel, Dos tazas, marks a return to her most emblematic character, Inspector García.

Rosa Navarro

An irregular illustrator who began her career working on magazines and textbooks. In 2006, she published Salidas de emergencia, the first comic in the Spanish State to deal with the topic of lesbianism in a humorous way. Thanks to its success, part two soon appeared with the title Salidas de emergencia. Bollería fina, published in 2007. Then, in 2019, her most personal project saw the light of day: the autobiographical Cappuccino Commotion, with more than a nod to popular culture.