Isabel Cadenas Cañón (Basauri, 1982) is a Spanish journalist, writer and sound documentary maker, specialised in issues related to historical memory and with a focus on human rights and gender perspective. She directs De esto no se habla, a narrative non-fiction podcast about silences, with the participation of writer Laura Casielles, filmmaker Vanessa Rousselot and journalist Paula Morais Montes. In May 2021, she received the Colombine International Journalism Award for the sound report Una placa en mi pueblo (A plaque in my town), episode 3 of the series De esto no se habla (This is not spoken of). This piece deals with the case of "Las 11 de Basauri" (The Basauri 11), ten women and a man who were to be tried for aborting and performing abortions in 1976. Their case, after almost ten years of trials, became the precedent for the law that would decriminalise abortion in Spain in 1985.
She is the author of Irse (Leave) (2010), También eso era el verano (That was also the summer) (2014) and Poética de la ausencia. Formas subversivas de la memoria en la cultura visual contemporánea (Poetics of absence. Subversive forms of memory in contemporary visual culture) (2019).
