From a very young age, Noemí López Trujillo learned that hyperfemininity was synonymous with frivolity, wickedness, or threat. Me dibujaron así is part of that early suspicion to articulate a direct defense of everything that has been considered “too feminine” and, therefore, superficial or perverse. From Pamela Anderson and Britney Spears to Jessica Rabbit or La Veneno, the author revisits punished cultural icons and rereads them as figures of resistance, desire, and excess.

The book intertwines these pop images with her own story: a childhood as a Jehovah’s Witness, a turbulent adolescence, and motherhood shaped by expectations about what a “good mother” should be. Alongside media references appear the biblical figures of Jezebel and Salome, the harpies, the sirens, and other “monsters” that tradition has built as warnings against dangerously seductive women. The result is a lucid and unashamed defense of the femme in all its forms.

Halfway between cultural essay and autobiographical narrative, Me dibujaron así. Por qué el mundo odia la feminidad dismantles the discourses that reduce femininity to submission and docility. In a context where “new masculinities” are endlessly theorized, this book shifts the focus and considers how rape culture is precisely sustained by hatred of the feminine. It is also a celebration of everything labeled as “girly,” from bimbos and transvestites to chonis, whores, or gypsies, reclaiming femininity as a political identity, pleasure, and battleground.

About the author

Noemí López Trujillo (Bilbao, 1988) is a journalist and writer, specializing in social and gender issues. She has worked for media outlets such as ABC, 20minutos, and El Español and is currently Gender Manager at Newtral. She is the author of the books Volveremos. Memoria oral de los que se fueron durante la crisis and El vientre vacío, and the audio documentary Lo conocí en un Corpus about the gender-based murder of Ana Orantes. In 2017, she received the Young Journalism Award on Gender Violence from Injuve.