The Association Diversa Global has chosen the illustrator Xoan Viqueira to intervene the first Menina de la Diversidad, with his particular stamp of identity, creating the Menina tribute to the trans collective, installed in the Plaza de Pedro Zerolo in the neighborhood of Chueca.

This Menina does not intend to go unnoticed, as the message it conveys is very important: transphobia is a very current issue, and trans visibility is something very necessary today. And what better than a bearded Menina, following the creative line of Xoan Viqueira, under the title “I am as I am“.

La Menina de la Diversidad also shows its sensitivity to ethnic multiculturalism by depicting different iconographies of “bearded Meninas” from different parts of the world.

Meninas Madrid Gallery is also a solidarity initiative since, at the end of the exhibition, the figures will be auctioned. La Menina de la Diversidad will donate the proceeds of this edition to the Food Bank and the Spanish Association of Transsexuals (Transexualia) for their special work with the most disadvantaged, especially this year for the COVID-19.