The comedian acknowledges on Instagram that the harassment she has suffered with Victoria Martín these weeks has “paralyzed” her
Comedian Carolina Iglesias, one of the founders and hosts of the successful feminist podcast stretching the gum Together with the also comic Victoria Martín, she has finally broken her silence to apologize to the barrage of listeners of the program in light of the controversy unleashed by the invitation to Patricia Sornosa, a humorist with an aggressive transphobic discourse.
The two presenters invited Sornosa to their latest episode because she shares a podcast with one of her regular collaborators, Patricia Espejo, since one of the lines in this Summer Edition of stretching the gum It consists of inviting the collaborators of their collaborators. But this has generated great discomfort and indignation among the followers of the “Validas” flag bearers, who have always defended a diverse, plural and transinclusive feminism.
But if to err is human, feminism seems to be left out of this maxim, since Iglesias and Martín have since been the target of a serious lynching, harassment and threats, which has even motivated their abandonment of social networks. For the most part, the critics argued that Sornosa’s presence in stretching the gum amounted to protecting the discriminatory position of this, despite the fact that YoIglesias and Martín have always walked in the opposite direction. Finally, Iglesias has come forward.
“Yesterday was my first day as a psychologist and today I see myself with the strength to stick my head out here again,” Iglesias’ message begins on his Instagram profile. “I want to apologize to the people who have felt disappointed, to my LGTBIQ+ collective, which I have failed, and a huge thank you to the people who have not let go of our hands in these tough weeks.” “Silence does not always communicate and my silence has been the result of fear when seeing the magnitude of what happened, which has paralyzed me.
Numerous comedians and activists linked to feminism and the LGTBI collective, such as Henar Álvarez, Lala Chus, Moderna de Pueblo, Zahara, Ger or Mara Jiménez have shown their support through their messages, as they have done from the beginning.
It should be remembered that Iglesias & Martín are immersed in the tour of Stretching the gum Live, which has a stop in the Canary Islands on September 17, with a double session at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the Theater-Paraninfo of the University of La Laguna (ULL), in Tenerife, whose tickets are sold out.