We can do it
Dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today. As not every day publishes one on the BBC, I share a story with you which has two Barcelona residents as protagonists, Mariona Roca and Marina Freixa, mother and daughter. Mariona’s family denounced her for being a free woman and Franco locked her up in the Patronato de la Mujer, a dark and terrible reformatory that had thousands of victims. His daughter Marina did a short documentary who was nominated for the Goya and is part of a generation that has begun to understand that there was a systematic repression against women who left the patriarchal canon. I catch my breath to change from third to other incomprehensible but much less dramatic realities, unless you live right in front of them: the works return to Glòriesthe water supply in Barcelona it costs €361 a year and in Girona, €67 and a plot of illegal tourist accommodation accumulates 7 million euros in fines Faced with surrealism, a little more: the Generalitat promotes an emergency kit so that you have it ready at your doorstep with a liter and a half of water and credit cards; I don’t think it’s surreal because of the emergency, but because who has so many cards to save one just in case? And won’t the water rot or be filled with microplastics? The only thing that has and gives meaning to the world we live in is feminism, so see you in the streets On Mondays and Tuesdays, my dears.
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