"I want to know who I was" is a project developed in the context of KYRT — Keep Your Radar Turning — as part of the Undergraduate in Communication Design, based on the theme "Duality/Dichotomy". Starting from the sharing of individual ideas and interests, the group focused on the representation of women in the media and the contrast between the role of women before and after the April Revolution. Inspired by the verse "I wanted to know who I am" from the song "E Depois do Adeus" (And After Goodbye), the title of the project evokes a search for identity, memory and voice, focusing on the reality of Portuguese women between the 1960s and 1990s. The main source of research was the magazine Eva, used to map themes such as family, beauty and work, symbolically divided by the year 1974. The result was a physical publication that combines critical analysis with graphic intervention, recreating elements of censorship from the Estado Novo, and a digital platform — Galeria Eva — which brings together the researched content.

The project seeks to understand how representations of women have been shaped by political, social, and cultural factors and how these have evolved over time. By revisiting the pages of magazines, it questions which narratives were allowed and which were silenced, how feminism was (or was not) a topic of debate, and what changes are reflected in ideas of motherhood, beauty, pleasure, or professional autonomy. Despite the limitations caused by censorship, the analysis reveals significant achievements in the post-revolution period and invites reflection on contemporary female role models. ‘Quero saber quem fui’ (I want to know who I was) is thus an exercise in memory and criticism, which values the past in order to illuminate the present and raise questions for the future, encouraging an attentive, informed and collective look at the construction of female identity in Portugal.