Aurora Picornell: The dressmaker who organised for working women

Aurora Picornell grew up in a working family in Es Molinar. She began working as a dressmaker in her teens and became a union organiser, writer and feminist activist. She helped bring the first International Working Women’s Day observance to Mallorca.

A dressmaker from Es Molinar

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Read the pavement by the sea

Along the Es Molinar waterfront, there’s a memorial stone for Picornell. She and other women remembered as the Roges del Molinar were murdered during the Civil War. Her story starts with the work she did while she was alive, speaking and organising alongside women whose working lives she understood first-hand.

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