Cristina You Will Fail (Zaragoza, 1968) has received a double setback today in the sale of his book ‘Don’t publish my name’ (21st Century Editorial). On the one hand, surely the first one knew him, but the marketing of his anonymous testimonies against sexual violence coincides with the presentation of the book Irene Monteroformer Minister of Equality responsible for the ‘yes means yes law’ and who in turn dedicates praise in this book to the journalist and writer on the back cover of her volume. Montero’s statements about the worst political decision of the left, which represents having promoted Yolanda Díaz to the Vice Presidency of the Government, could overshadow the release to bookstores of these thousands of voices that make up, according to Fallarás, the Spanish #Seacabó that patented a tweet by Alexia Putellas fueled by rage after listening to the intervention of the then president of Spanish football, Luis Rubiales, before the board of directors of the Federation (RFEF) and signing up to five times that he was not going to resign due to the echoes of a kiss that for him had been “agreed upon” with Jenni Hermoso, Putellas’ teammate.
That August 2023, on the 28th, Fallarás launches the cable on networks and asks to receive testimonies that prove situations that occurred without consent (which support Montero’s law, in turn) and sexual assaults like the one Hermoso suffered after Spain won to England in the World Cup final in Sydney. In a few days, there were hundreds of stories received by the author, who decided to publish them on her social media profile and also compile them for this book, precisely at the request of some of the victims. You will fail documents the rage and anger of women. Recreates a map of the wound that flays victims of sexual assault.
the book It is a compilation of hundreds of testimonies. Some only witness other abuses, and others encourage victims, so not all of the thousands of published excerpts pertain to victims. These are lacerating, hurtful, embarrassing. And it hurts to read them. A 4-year-old girl whose father climbed into her bed; employees of bosses who abused them as a method of coercion; gynecologists who inserted their fingers too much or praised how “beautiful” the patient’s genitals were. The collective complaint includes religious people, teachers, coaches, doctors and above all “close men, who abuse attachment” and “trust”, knowing that their victims will remain silent.
How difficult it is to break the silence
Breaking the silence is a formula that is also discussed in the prologue of Fallarás and the epilogue of the Basque professor Nerea Barjola, doctor in Feminisms and Gender, a need that can last “years” and even “decades”, which has not been understood on numerous occasions by the judges or police officers who received the formal complaint. According to Fallarás, who admits to having been abused in her own childhood and knows very well the sensations that the victims write to her on the other side of the screen “from her own experience,” many women corner what they experienced in a part of their soul and brain for a only reason: for your own survival. Living with it often becomes so difficult that you either put it aside or you sink and can’t continue, he says.
Anonymity
The book is based on the request of all victims not to publish their names and for both the aggressor and the victim to be anonymous. So no one’s namesake appears, neither Íñigo Errejón nor any known face, although Fallarás reviles Plácido Domingo’s justifications in the prologue. It was precisely Fallarás who received the initial testimony that triggered the case against the deputy and gave rise to all the others. That is why we are talking about a second setback today for Fallarás, upon learning of the suspension of the case due to the medical leave of the complainant’s lawyer, Elisa Mouliaá, which has led to the provisional filing of the case by Court number 47 of Madrid.
In Fallarás’ book there is not a single name or well-known face mentioned: the abuse of teachers, doctors or coaches is reported.
In the pages she writes, Fallarás also claims that there is no minor aggression, that an attacked woman is just that, an attacked woman. The author of the hashtag #Cuéntalo, in 2018, to follow the blows of the international #MeToo, decided to publish all these testimonies in March of this year as a result of the temporary suspension of her Instagram account. The platform repeated the same fact recently when the Errejón case broke out and the Fallarás wall became a compilation of victims’ demonstrations against the then deputy of Sumar.
The journalist says that this work – ‘Do not publish my name’ – is a sample of collective memory and a tool with which patterns of abuse by men are perfectly identified; that by publishing all these painful testimonies they are saved from oblivion. “Every society has the violence it tolerates,” The author maintains on page 16 of the prologue.
The benefits of the book will go to the creation of spaces to give a voice to women who have suffered sexual violence and will be managed through the association to which Fallarás Acción Comadres belongs, which includes, among others, Judge Vicky Rosell, former delegate of the Government against Gender Violence during the mandate of Irene Montero in the Ministry of Equality.
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