The centre’s new director combines an academic background with experience linked to feminist activism and the implementation of feminist and LGTBIQ+ public policies.
Miriam Solá, activist and researcher specialising in gender studies, has become the director of the Barcelona LGBTI
Centre, following the retirement of the centre’s previous director, Andreu Agustín.
Solá combines an academic background with experience linked to feminist activism and the implementation of public policies on equality and sexual and gender diversity.
She has also collaborated on various feminist publications within the Spanish state, such as “Alianzas rebeldes” (Bellaterra, 2021), coordinated by Clara Serra, Laura Macaya and Cristina Garaizabal, and “Transfeminismos. Epistemes, fricciones y flujos” (Txalaparta, 2013), together with Elena Urko.
She has participated in a number of feminist and queer collectives in the city of Barcelona and currently forms part of La Morada, the first feminist and LGTBIQ+ housing cooperative in Catalonia. Professionally, she has mainly worked as a policy consultant for equality and diversity public policies, and in recent years she has worked as technical director of feminism and LGTBI affairsfor the political group Comuns, and as a political advisor for Barcelona Provincial Council.