The anonymous testimony of a woman published on the Instagram account of Cristina You Will Fail precipitated the departure of Sumar’s former spokesperson in Congress Íñigo Errejón, who last Thursday announced in a statement that he was resigning from all his positions and leaving his record as a deputy after a decade on the political front line. This and other stories about sexual harassment and sexist violence will be present in a book that the journalist will publish on November 11 and whose rights will be managed by the association. Comadres Actionan organization of which she herself is a part.
Fallarás noted on Friday that, once the scandal broke out, in just 24 hours he had received “almost a dozen” stories that also pointed to Errejón. These are not the only ones that have been received and put senior officials from the world of politics, culture or journalism in the spotlight. The communicator has been using her social networks for years as a speaker for those women who want to talk about episodes they have experienced of harassment, abuse or sexual assault and they will take shape in a book that she will publish on November 11 – ‘Don’t publish my name’ (siglo publishing house XXI) – and that will collect around a thousand testimonies.
Although it was known that the journalist was preparing this book, the announcement of its publication in just a few weeks has aroused much criticism, since many people consider its dissemination opportunistic. However, Fallarás has stressed that This compilation “does not come out in the heat of Errejón”but it is something that he has been working on for months and has done “voluntarily, as an activist and without charging a dime.”
“The copyright “Of this book, for those who are saying that I am going to profit, it will be managed under contract by a non-profit association made up of women from all areas,” the journalist explained. This entity is Acción Comadres and on its own website it specifies who started this project and are part of it: María Botto, Amparo Sánchez, Cristina Fallarás, Karmele Marchante, Violeta Assiego, Marisa Kohan, Zinnia Quirós, Lydia Aguirre and Piluca Baselga.
Fallarás, who is part of the association, has stated that they have been working on these types of testimonies and making them public for two or three years. «Preparing a book like this takes months and months of work.», he pointed out, and insisted on his Instagram account: «The benefits that it may bring will be something that we will reinvest in the stories of these women.»
This is something that the association itself was already doing with the theater group that they promoted a few years ago, directed by María Botto, and that responds to the same name, although it defines itself more as a “feminist action” than as a play. Many experiences related to sexual harassment or sexist violence are also shared there.
The Sala Mirador, theater where the play has been performed, states that it is an exercise that consists of “eliminating fiction and representation when showing a dialogue between them in the intimate/private space and exposing their intimacy in public.” . […] “It responds to the realities that are happening.” “A transformative feminist ‘performance’ through the intimate story of a group of brave and diverse women,” indicates the organization itself on its Instagram account.
Approved a subsidy of 100,000 euros
In Law 31/2022, of December 23, on the General State Budgets for the year 2023, a grant of 100,000 euros to Comadres Action. This is stated in the Strategic Subsidies Plan 2021-2023 of the Ministry of Equality. «’Comadres’ is aimed at promoting the participation of the diversity of women in a feminine space empowered by an intimate dialogue, in which common themes are raised. The actions of this group coincide with the objectives entrusted to the Women’s Institute,” the document cites.
The association did not receive this money. According to Judge Victoria Rosell, former Government delegate against Gender Violence and former deputy in Congress for Podemos, “Acción Comadres was going to receive a subsidy in 2023, but she resigned.” However, what is established by the Ministry of Equality is that this item It could not be processed because “the entity did not have its own legal personality».
Irene Monterowho was then at the head of the Ministry of Equality, has also supported the publication of Fallarás’ book. On the website of the Siglo XXI publishing house you can read several recommendations from politicians and writers, among which is that of the political secretary of Podemos: «Break the silence and the fear and the shame, as thousands of women do when they say ‘It’s over’, is the first step so that we know that it is not one, that we are all, and that we have the right to change together everything that has to be changed until we live lives free of sexist violence.
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