The Art Of Isa Muguruza

17 May 2024
Mujeres en el deporte (Women in sports)
Ana Carmona (16 May 1908 - 1940)
Footballer who played as a midfielder, dressing up as a male to be able to play on male football teams, after being exposed as a woman, she was attacked and put under house arrest.

30 May 2024
Mujeres periodistas (Female journalists)
Carmen de Burgos (10 December 1867 – 9 October 1932)
Journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist.

6 September 2024
Mujeres pioneras (Pioneering women)
Ascension Chirivella Marín (28 January 1894 – 9 April 1980)
First female law graduate in Spain to practice as a lawyer, specialising in civil law, and was active in promoting women's rights.

26 September 2024
Personajes de la historia (Persons in history)
María Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo (26 March 1898 – 26 September 1983)
Aviator, the first woman in Spain to earn a pilot's licence, receiving her licence from the Escuela Nacional Aeronáutica on 24 November 1928.

2 October 2024
Escritoras (Authoresses)
Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira (9 December 1914#8201;–#8201;9 June 1933)
Activist for socialism and sexual revolution.



Hildegart was conceived and raised by her anti-theist, socialist, eugenicist, and feminist mother, Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, as a prototype for the women of the future. When she was 18 years old and seeking independence from her controlling mother, the latter shot her to death in her sleep.

3 October 2024
Mujeres en el cine (Women in film)
Elena Jordi (20 November 1882 - 6 December 1945)
Actress and Vaudeville performer, the first woman in Spain to become a film director.

Her work for Lelo (juguetes eróticos) is quite something. As well as a highly distinctive style, Isa Muguruza has a wild edge to her art. I thought at first that the choice of pink for the fur crown of Ascension Chirivella Marín's court hat was a bit of a mistake- reminds me of the cartoon character Buster Gonad. But she did study at St Martin's so she maybe is conversant with English insults.