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Alana S. Portero in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert

Medellín 2024, 

Recognised by the Ministry of Equality of Spain for her contribution to making visible trans women, Alana S. Portero is a historian, writer, dramatist, theatre director and LGTBIQ+ activist. She will talk about her first novel, La mala costumbre, which tells the moving story of the childhood and teenage years of a girl who grows up in a body that feels strange to her. Set in Madrid in the 1980s and 90s, the text deals with the uneasiness and resentment caused by a society that, unable to accept difference, distorts it. In conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert.

Alana S. Portero in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert