Senator Carla Antonelli was the first trans woman to hold public office in Spain. A 'Volcano Woman', as she defines herself in her book, who paved the way for the rest with her tireless fight for the rights of the LGTBI+ Collective. Today she opens up on the LOVE TV set, where she verbalises one of the best pieces of advice she was given when she was twenty years old: "Carla, never do anything in your life for and to others. Look at me, I didn't come out of the wardrobe until my father and mother died out of respect for them, and I lost my whole life. Now, in my 60s, I'm living a life I should have started living possibly four decades ago.

Antonelli says that the name 'The Volcano Woman' chosen for the book of her memoirs symbolises how in a quiet environment "underneath there is something that at a given moment can reveal itself and emerge". The senator explains that in her daily life she is conciliatory, but when she speaks out to defend her rights she does so "from the gut".

Rewriting her own story has been a complex process: "Many people have been surprised to see that I have opened myself up, we have entered into all the puddles, into things that I have never externalised, such as male violence, drugs...".

"We are capable of devolution, we live in dark times".

Carla Antonelli explains during her interview on LOVE TV that she felt that it was now when she had to tell her whole story because we are seeing that "we are capable of going backwards, we are living in dark times". The senator verbalises that her intention is to convey that everyone can decide about their own life.

"Normality is nothing other than what is repeated on a daily basis, so telling our stories is the only way to move towards respect," says the current senator.

"When we are going to decide what our life is, we may have lost many years in between".

Antnelli clarifies that, although she comes from a time when she had no reference points, she has understood that the family and the environment still condition the lives of trans people and the collective on many occasions, and "when we are going to decide what our life is, perhaps we have lost many years in between".

In fact, she says she will never forget that in her twenties, when she "had some big internal battles" over family estrangements, a friend told her: "Carla, never do anything in your life for and to others. Look at me, I didn't come out of the wardrobe until my father and mother died out of respect for them, and I missed out on my whole life. Now, in my 60s, I'm living a life I should have started living possibly four decades ago.

More than half an hour of conversation with journalist Micaela García captures the life story of Carla Antonelli, a reference for the collective. A 'Volcano Woman' who has been capable of anything and who today, with years of struggle behind her, tells her story on LOVE TV.