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Hannah Flockton

Abstract/Description

Although Spain has taken steps to protect transgender people at a policy level, transgender individuals continue to face systemic victimization and unequal access to fundamental human rights. Historically, they have been absent, misgendered, or reduced to negative stereotypes in the film, music, and television industries. Nevertheless, over the last ten years, and in response to the growing transphobic rhetoric and hate prevalent worldwide, numerous transgender women artists and allies have created or participated in artistic projects that not only challenge these stereotypes but also provide new and more inclusive representations and definitions of “women” and “feminine.” One of those artistic products was the Altresmedia television series “Veneno,” which depicted the life of Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez (“La Veneno”) as a transgender woman in Spain during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Representations in the media like the Veneno TV series have become agents involved in the fight for the recognition and protection of transgender women in every sector of society.

Note on the Author

Hannah Flockton will be graduating in 2026 from Bridgewater State University. This article is her interdisciplinary Departmental Honors thesis in Spanish and Social Justice. Hannah was mentored throughout this process by Global Languages and Literatures professor Dr. José Lara, and she also completed a poster that was presented at BSU's Student Arts & Research Symposium (StARS) in 2025. Hannah aspires to be a Spanish teacher with her Spanish and Secondary Education majors, and she hopes to travel before beginning to work full time. Hannah enjoys swimming and spending time with her dogs.

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Articles published in The Undergraduate Review are the property of the individual contributors and may not be reprinted, reformatted, repurposed or duplicated, without the contributor’s consent.

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