Intense (Intensas)

A powerful defense of women’s right to feel, desire, and express themselves without guilt, turning emotional intensity into a feminist strategy to challenge the mandates that still silence women. With elements of autofiction that make this work both an entertaining and satirical story, the author succeeds in informing and entertaining at once.

 

Intensas is a sharp and political essay on women’s right to feel everything. Ana Requena Aguilar reclaims intensity—that “excess” so often criticized in women—as a force for personal and collective transformation. The book journeys through the emotions, norms, and acts of resistance that shape women’s lives.

With a critical eye and personal experience, Requena dismantles labels like “intense,” “Charo,” or “crazy,” used to ridicule, silence, or punish those who don’t fit the mold—or who simply want to love without giving up, dress how they please, or demand emotional accountability. She reflects on structural violence that seeps in like a steady rain, rage as a feminist engine, the pathologization of women’s distress, the stigmatization of deeply human emotions like desire and anger, the trap of so-called “new masculinities,” and unequal emotional labor.

The book defends desire, pleasure, and love through freedom, questions the narratives that taught us to love through suffering, and calls for reciprocal, caring relationships. It also reclaims the right to dress sexy without losing either dignity or power.

From Britney Spears to Kate Millett, from Chanel to the so-called Charos, Intensas weaves a bold, collective narrative about what it means to live as a woman today without apologizing for feeling. The epilogue makes it clear: they won’t calm down—because they won’t give up their voice, their rage, or their joy.

 

RELEVANT INFORMATION: Ana Requena is a renowned journalist who focuses on economic and social issues: labor rights, caregiving, labor markets, feminism, work-life balance, and gender-based violence. In 2014, she launched the blog Micromachismos, which has earned her several awards. She is the author of multiple essays on women, feminism, and gender equality.

Following Vibrant Feminism, Ana Requena Aguilar returns with Intensas, an essential essay on the political power of emotions and women’s right to feel and express themselves without being censored. As in her previous work, she blends reflection with personal anecdotes to construct a narrative where rage, pleasure, and vulnerability are no longer flaws but sources of strength. This anecdotal dimension makes the book a promising source for a series or miniseries adaptation that explores these themes through fiction.

 

AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Feature Film, TV Movie

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish

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