#el laberinto del fauno is the only media i can think of off the top of my head

[watermelinoe]

Did you have a sudden feminist awakening or was it more gradual? For me it was super sudden and happened at a festival in 2022. I’m Galician and the Feria de Festivala was near my home city. A banda da Loba (5-woman band) came on with Fillas de Cassandra (female duo) and they performed a song called “A Capirota” which tells the story of what happened to Carmen Pesqueira (known as A Capirota) when she stood up to fascists during the Spanish Civil War. (1/2)

i think tumblr ate the second half of this ask unfortunately :(

to answer your question, i didn't have a specific feminist awakening, my parents were librarians and let me be a "tomboy" and my mom's opinion is that forced pregnancy is torture and she almost never wore makeup. my mom likes my leg hair because it's soft and my dad doesn't care because he was a long-haired leftist activist back when women were burning bras.

i actually had an anti-feminist phase in high school because of tumblr and because of feeling alienated from other girls - i thought that i had "internalized misogyny" because i didn't wear makeup and had short hair lol - and this was the era of "eyeliner so sharp it can kill a man" "fight like a girl" "feminism" (i would call it libfem or choice feminism but let's be honest none of this is feminist on any level) where kink is empowering and porn is sex positive and hijab is a woman's choice and trans women are women <3

my radical feminist awakening was over the course of a few weeks and it was instigated by my "peak trans" moment of seeing lesbians called genital fetishists and no push-back except from radfem blogs

and reading these blogs just cut right through the steady drip of bullshit from the past ~3 years since i had made a tumblr account, within the month i made this blog and abandoned my old one

but i would be interested in hearing the rest of your story! my knowledge of the spanish civil war is limited to a semester-long spanish literature course for my spanish minor back when i was a college freshman but i can read spanish if there's any media that you would really recommend. live performances can be so powerful, that sounds like an incredible experience