Original title: "La mujer volcán: Memorias" (The Volcano Woman: Memoirs) by Carla Antonelli and Marcos Dosantos.
Carla Antonelli, an unredeemed activist and protagonist of laws that changed a country forever, has broken all the glass ceilings of trans women. This book is his incandescent account of a life plagued by struggle that travels the paths of abandonment, desire, freedom, and power. In the pages of this journey, there is hunger, love, conquests, and mistreatment; sworn enemies and infinite friendships.
Carla Antonelli (Carla Delgado Gómez) was born in Güímar, Tenerife, in 1959. She is a politician, activist, and actress. Currently a Senator of the Spanish Parliament for Más Madrid, she was a regional deputy for the Socialist Party between 2011 and 2021, becoming the first trans parliamentarian in Spain. Since the 80s, she has played numerous roles and cameos in television series, films, documentaries, and plays (Lisístrata, El síndrome de Ulises, La Veneno, El comisario, Paquita Salas, Periodistas, Triángulos rosas, Hijos de papá, El viaje de Carla…).
She has collaborated as a panelist in television programs such as Crónicas Marcianas, La Noria or Todo depende. She led the Diario Digital Transexual for years and has published numerous articles in media such as El País, El Mundo, El Diario, Huffington Post, Público and El Plural. A historic activist for sexual and gender diversity, she played a fundamental role in the approval of regulations such as the Gender Identity Law, equal marriage, the comprehensive trans and LGTBI laws of the Community of Madrid and the Trans Law of 2023.
Marcos Dosantos (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 1991) is a political scientist and writer. Graduated in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid and specialized in Political and Social Leadership from the Carlos III University, he received his literary training at the Hotel Kafka and at the School of Writers of Madrid. In 2022 he published his debut work Cuadernos del Subtrópico Norte (Ediciones El Drago). He is currently a professor of Short Stories at the Antonia Molinero Literary School.
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