“More is always being asked of us. […] When I arrived at Barcelona I knew I was black, but I didn’t know that my skin color was a disadvantage. FromVillage, Perla shares her experience of racism in Spanish society, from remarks on the street to discrimination in housing. The main newspaper of the country specifies: “Born in Equatorial Guinea thirty-one years ago, resident since the age of 12 in the Barcelona district of Poblenou, she expresses herself in the networks on Africa and African cultures, fighting against stereotypes and prejudices”.
Known on social networks – in particular Tick tock et Instagramwhere it has a few hundred thousand subscribers – under the pseudonym of Afropoderossa (distortion ofafropoderous, “afropowerful”), Perla brings claims related to anti-racism as well as feminism.
Offers reading recommendations or films to discover, noting for example that there really is an LGBTQI cinema on the African continent. “And it claims the right of black women to leave Western beauty standards
