The first time poet and singer-songwriter Ivette Nadal saw the father of her child, she was only eleven years old. "I went with my parents to a furniture store to choose my room, and he was the one who helped us. I remember he had dreadlocks, and my mother commented, 'Look, this boy is more your style.' At the time, I thought he was very old—he was eighteen—and, logically, he didn't even look at me, not even a glance," Nadal explains.

For almost five years, the idea of writing a book about anorexia from the more emotional perspective haunted singer and poet Ivette Nadal (Granollers, 1988). Finally, a while ago, she took the bull by the horns and got started. Poetic justice (Pórtico) is the intimate, profound, and powerful testimony of a woman who, as a teenager, was captivated by musicians and poets. With one of them, she shared an unequal emotional relationship that left her deeply damaged. Combining experiences and poems, Nadal brings to the surface the physical and emotional pain of a still misunderstood mental illness, both to raise awareness of the desolation it entails and to demonstrate that one can overcome it.

Today I begin with some uncomfortable data: 25% of the adult population has suffered physical abuse in childhood, and 18% of girls and 8% of boys have suffered sexual abuse (UNICEF, 2017). Polish psychoanalyst Alice Miller delved into the concept of Black pedagogy, which she defines as a parenting model based on emotional repression, humiliation, and uncritical obedience, where violence (physical, verbal, or symbolic) is presented as necessary for education. This pedagogy not only wounds, but teaches us to justify the wound ("They did it for my own good," "The standards of the time were different"), and in this way, the pain is buried under a layer of loyalty, and the cycle of violence can perpetuate itself unchallenged.

The rapport and respect are evident. The artistic and personal connection between the two is evident on stage and when they speak to the press. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Meritxell Gené (Lleida, 1986) and Ivette Navidad (Granollers, 1988), all ten poets and singer-songwriters, have revived the Les Kol·lontai project. Together they have made Adeleradas (Under the Palm Tree, 2024), an album they're performing live in concerts like the one on May 24th at Barcelona's Paral·lel 62, as part of the Barnasants festival program. "Although we live in very different geographical locations, we've been friends on and off stage for many years. The most feminist act we have is our basic friendship. We understand each other very well," Nadal states.

Ivette Nadal (Granollers, 1988) has two major projects in hand: on March 28, at the Barnasants festival, she will premiere a show with songs by Pau Riba and Jaume Sisa, and in May she will publish the autobiographical book Poetic justice. Just as she has done with her six previous albums and four poetry books, Ivette will have to combine her vigorous artistic career with fragile health. Since she was 9 years old, she has lived with an eating disorder that has had her in and out of hospitals, and now she has received another diagnosis: multiple sclerosis.

Ivette Nadal (Granollers, 1988) has two major projects in hand: on March 28, at the Barnasants festival, she will premiere a show with songs by Pau Riba and Jaume Sisa, and in May she will publish the autobiographical book Justícia poètica. As she has done with her six previous albums and four books of poems, Ivette will have to combine her vigorous artistic career with fragile health. Since she was nine, she has lived with an eating disorder that has had her in and out of hospitals, and now she has received another diagnosis: multiple sclerosis.