Ana Polo

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| birth_name = Ana Polo Gutiérrez

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1990}}

| birth_place = Vilassar de Mar, Catalonia, Spain

| occupation = Journalist, humorist, writer

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Ana Polo Gutiérrez{{cite web|url=https://www.districte7.cat/feminisme-per-a-la-mainada-hospitalenca/|title=Feminimse per la mainada hospitalenca|date=31 January 2023|publisher=districte7}} (born 1990) is a Spanish journalist, humorist and writer.{{cite web|url=https://www.ara.cat/estiu/ana-polo-cansat-lloc-als-mitjans-sigui-noia-programa_1_4088929.html|title=Ana Polo: "És molt cansat que el teu lloc als mitjans sigui 'la noia del programa'"|date=18 August 2021|publisher=Diari Ara}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/entrevista-ana-polo-guia-feminista/|title=Ana Polo: "No volia ser lesbiana, volia ser normal, tenir l'aprovació dels homes"|date=14 September 2022|publisher=VilaWeb}}

Biography

Polo has a degree in journalism and performed her practices in the news radio channel RAC 1. She has regularly collaborated in media such as RAC 1 (in the progran La Segona hora),{{cite web|url=https://www.rac1.cat/a-la-carta/la-segona-hora|title=La Segona Hora|editor=RAC1}} also in Catalunya Ràdio, on Televisión Española (in the program Tips) and in 8TV (in the program Catalunya Directe).{{cite web|url=https://www.cccb.org/es/participantes/ficha/ana-polo/228428|title=Ana Polo|publisher=CCCB}} Disillusioned the great media, where she considered that her role was often restricted to being "the girl of the program", Polo opted for other formats and platforms where women had greater creative freedom and could act as producers.

Polo is known for her feminist monologues, which she has done throughout Catalonia since the late 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.realitat.cat/2022/11/entrevista-a-ana-polo-faig-humor-dallo-que-mindigna-en-un-mon-masclista-i-heteropatriarcal/|title=Entrevista a Ana Polo: "Faig humor d'allò que m'indigna, en un món masclista i heteropatriarcal"|accessdate=4 March 2023|date=11 November 2022|publisher=La Realitat|language=ca}} She usually works with the humorist Oye Sherman, and from 2020 together they've presented the podcast Oye Polo on Radio Primavera Sound, one of the most listened programs in Catalan in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.eltemps.cat/article/15556/entrevista-oye-polo|title=Oye Polo: "Si no hi ha discriminació de gènere, la pulsió sexual és validíssima"|date=25 November 2021|publisher=El Temps}}

In 2020, Polo launched the program Feministic on the Fibracat TV television channel, a capsules space on feminist dissemination.{{cite web|url=https://es.babelio.com/auteur/Ana-Polo/100108|title=Ana Polo|accessdate=5 April 2023|publisher=Babelio|language=ca}} 40 chapters were made, until the platform closed at the end of 2022. Also in 2022, the editorial La Galera proposed that Polo write her first book, entitled Mi primera guía feminista, illustrated by Eva Palomar. Thought as a brief introduction to feminism for children from 10 years, this book seeks to cover the void left by existing editorials of non-fiction feminist books for children. It is available in Catalan and Spanish.

Personal life

Polo is openly lesbian.{{cite web|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/entrevista-ana-polo-guia-feminista/|title=Ana Polo: "No volia ser lesbiana, volia ser normal, tenir l'aprovació dels homes"|accessdate=10 May 2024|website=VilaWeb|language=ca}}{{cite web|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20221115/ana-entrevista-podcast-oye-polo-guia-feminista-78428596|title=Ana Polo: "Me encantaría ser el referente lésbico que yo nunca tuve"|accessdate=10 May 2024|last=Navarro|first=Judith|date=15 November 2022|website=www.elperiodico.com|language=es}}