In Barcelona in 1761, people wielded a machine gun of whispers. Maria Badia's lawsuit against the Carpenters' Guild and the carpenter Pere Campañà was urban guerrilla warfare. She was a reseller and defended the right to buy and sell pine wood. There was litigation. She wasn't the only one: Isabel Surroca, Gertrudis Rius, Agnès Capella, Teresa Prats, Eulalia Alabern… There were many women. And before. And after. And they weren't there for the chickens. Because they were the ones who ran the restaurant.
We have bombs, patatas bravas, cockles, calamari, mushrooms… The Guild of Tenders and Resellers was a mixed guild for one hundred and forty-five years. Between 1624 and 1768. We have women and women who come. Lots of teak. Lots of food, but also other things, like wood, which, if you want, can fill you up. The discovery was made by historian Mercè Renom. This groundbreaking finding shatters the Catalan historiography that held that Barcelona's guilds were exclusively for men. Her work, Resellers. Gender and work in Barcelona (15th-19th centuries)This was made possible thanks to a research grant from the Old Guild of Resellers of Barcelona. We've talked about these Barcelonan Martians on Earth.
Resellers are real people, flesh and blood, who have been here since 1447! Nonstop. coitus interruptusThere's nothing like it in Europe. Or in the world. They are Barcelona and Catalonia. And the Universe. But today one has more real and moral authority. brunch PVC, listless, ridiculously expensive, ruinous, than them. Drug addiction is more legal than a Cobismo From a detox center for dead nostalgia, from a Barcelona that has ceased to be the capital of Catalonia, that they. What Barcelona is, they've told it isn't Barcelona. And now Barcelona is something that isn't Barcelona. If Barcelona is modern, it's for the scalpers. They are the rebellious Barcelona. The anti-establishment Barcelona. And they have a weapon.
The scalpers are no longer a powerful guild like before. But from their missile platform in Plaça del Pi, they launch cultural projectiles into the Barcelona sky. The city only has culture left to see who it really is.
Not the culture of torture that now unites brainless pseudo-intellectual Barcelonans: separatists, federalists, espanyolists, animal rights activists, nitpickers, so many semen-obsessed, Solella-loving chard-heads who realize, depressed (2026!), that Barcelona is falling. Translated, this means they'll be left without their bars, restaurants, and sectarian mirror bunkers where they indulge in the self-indulgent act of writing and talking about themselves. They couldn't care less about Barcelona and its people. And about Catalonia. nothing comes to mindWe're talking about another culture, one that's beyond the existential reach of these creatures who aren't leaders of the city: they're the city's pets.
Barcelona is the scalpers leveling the playing field in a mixed guild of men and women. Making the first antitrust rules for the economy. The proto-Catalan social security. The first devils are the scalpers! Et cetera. Infinite. Culture: civilization versus barbecue barbarism.
They are the Barcelona barricades: not those of communists, anarchists, expats, brunchesPsychedelic Mexican hats, ghosts without sheets… Why is there a Barcelona that falls and another that doesn't? What isn't true falls. And the truth lives on. Barcelona is this 1447. What would all the Marias Badias do in today's Barcelona? If the scalpers fall, there is no more Barcelona. Only they remain. To arms, Barcelonans.
