Opinion

 In this section, ideas take shape with depth, clarity, and responsibility. Fashionista Edition offers a space for critical analysis, journalistic reflection, and contemporary thought. Credible and committed voices come together here to address the issues that set the pace of current events, always with rigor, elegance, and a pluralistic vision. Because to opine with substance is also a way to help shape the world.

 

The Neolithic They Hid from Us: When Women Ruled the Earth

By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 New archaeological findings challenge the patriarchal narrative of prehistory and raise an uncomfortable question: When did we start erasing women from history?

 

 For generations, history books have portrayed the Neolithic as a world of strong men and passive women. But the unearthed bones tell a very different story. In sites from Çatalhöyük to the Iberian Peninsula, osteological analyses reveal that many tombs with lavish grave goods—once automatically attributed to men—actually belong to women. Their femurs show signs of intense physical activity, their hips bear the marks of multiple childbirths… and their arms display the same spear marks as the men’s.

 

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Rafael Plaza Aragonés: The Embrace of the Shot

When Photography Becomes Awareness, Memory, and Global Hope
By José Luis Ortiz Güell

 

 In a world saturated with fleeting images, where the click of a camera is often brief and soulless, there is a gaze that lingers, that observes, that breathes humanity into every frame: that of Rafael Plaza Aragonés. A former war correspondent, his photographs have not only appeared in the world’s most important newspapers, but have also managed to find their way into the most intimate corners of the human soul, reminding us that art, when born from pain and commitment, can also be a caress.

 

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