Author: Madrid Safíco

• March 14, 2022

  A lesbian history of Parla

  The lesbian history of Parla only became visible in the mid-2010s, despite the town being inhabited since 200 CE when people from the coastal part of the Iberian Peninsula began to settle in the area.  When real lesbian history started in Parla, it was the early 2010s and it was intrinsically linked with either homosexual […]
• March 13, 2022

  A lesbian history of Mérida

  Early details about lesbian history in Mérida are lacking, with other cities like Badajoz, Cáceres and Llerena and appearing to play a larger role in understanding and being the center of lesbian life in Extremadura.
• March 8, 2022

  Lesbian intersections with 8 de Marzo Día Internacional de la Mujer

  Lesbians have long been involved with Spanish protests, marches and celebrations that took place on March 8’s International Women’s Labor Day.  At the same time, the date has also been important for other women and LGTB rights issues in Spain.
• February 27, 2022

  History of Lesbian Visibility Day in Spain

  Preface: This is the last section of mostly last chapter of the book I am working on with the overview of lesbian history across the whole of Spain. The more modern stuff is a lot more challenging than the historic stuff because there isn’t the same type of summary of challenges but rather looking at […]
• February 18, 2022

  Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Bollero feminism and LGTB intersections with lesbianism and abolitionist feminism

  Lesbian political goals independent from the broader feminist movement and independent of the LGTB collective largely disappeared in this period, with a few exceptions focused around family rights.
• February 17, 2022

  Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Everyday life, societal perception and media depictions

  Background: This is the last era of the rewrite of the background information. It includes the Pedro Sanchez period up to more or less March 2020 when the pandemic began as it needs an actual ending point. Hoping to get this period finished writing this month and then doing the Amazon self-publishing thing. Everyday life, […]
• February 17, 2022

  Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Political and legal situation, relationship, family and reproductive rights

  With a conservative government in power, the tenor of the campaign for political rights had changed in Spain along with the areas of focus changing. 
• February 17, 2022

  Almansa Entiende’s L v G v T v B v I Twitter mentions

  Almansa Entiende member Rocío Martínez was quoted in elDiario.es as saying on 10 June 2021 that trans people were the most invisible group in the rainbow and the most in need of support and guidance. A review of Almansa Entiende’s Twitter activity in January 2022 found that transpeople were the most visible group inside the […]
• February 3, 2022

  Socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004 – 2011)

  Lesbian life continued to have moments of difficulty across Spain. The financial crisis reduced resources. Attacks on lesbians happened around Spain, and got local and national media attention. Lesbians faced identity issues when they had children. Rural lesbians continued to have move to big cities to avoid discrimination or travel to big cities to have social opportunities. In big cities, lesbians who did not fit the traditional mold of women in Spanish society faced their own problems and stigmatization. Lesbian social opportunities also had issues, with lesbian bars struggling to stay open.
• January 29, 2022

  Lesbiana and its inclusion of bisexual women in a Spanish context

  There is a question, or probably more accurately, statements of facts on Twitter around whether or not lesbian as a term and lesbian as an identity is trans inclusive, and whether or not there is such a thing as bi lesbians, given especially that lesbian has roots with the island of Lesbos and that Sappho […]