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2020-10-27T22:10:24.407Z


It is not just about talking about feminism, but about trying to understand the world taking it into account.


[This article belongs to La Matяioska, Verne's fortnightly newsletter.

If you want to subscribe, you can do so through this link and if you want to send us a message, you can write to lamatrioska@verne.es]

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I have a friend who says she is saturated with reading books on feminism.

That does not give him life with everything that is published lately.

That sometimes you want to read a novel without having to be learning all the time, but that it has "incorporated feminism."

My friend is also a feminist committed to theory and practice, who has read the classics and the modern (and knows the theory) and who tries to apply feminism every day.

And in this he is right again.

When we began to write a newsletter on feminism and women -in March 2017- there were a few days until an 8-M that has already started to be massive and a year before a global feminist strike that Spain had as its epicenter.

At that time, we thought it was good to dedicate one newsletter a month to topics about feminism and recommend reading that we had liked, beyond the articles we published in

Verne

.

And we started by claiming that we had to lose our fear of declaring ourselves a feminist.

Now it may seem obvious, but only three years ago it was not so: Merkel said that she was in favor of equality but that she was not a feminist.

A year after starting, we decided to make this biweekly newsletter and baptize it: La Matrioska has this name because there are many stories, many of women, that we want to tell you.

In this time, many things have changed and feminist information has been gaining pages and places in the sections.

With its advances, La Matrioska has been acquiring that idea that my friend comments about books: to bring feminism incorporated.

Try to understand the world taking it into account.

Apply it.

Thus, we have talked about issues such as the representation of women in cities, language, being as a political act or complexes.

We have confessed: loving our gray hair and acknowledging that we have cried at work.

And we have also opened this window to let in the fresco and the words of authors we admire (here are a couple of compilations: the summer of 2019 and the one of 2020).

Last week started with the celebration of the day of the writers.

I remember that several members of the

Verne

team

joined the challenge of spending a year reading only authors between 2015 and 2016.

I like to review the list of books I have read this year and see that female names predominate, now without challenges and without effort.

Incorporated feminism.

This Women's Day has been the most celebrated I can remember, but I look at my bookshelf and, despite recent additions, the male representation is still in the majority.

If you've never done it before, I encourage you to take a look at your bookshelf.

You may also be surprised.

This temporary review, this looking back and taking stock, has a cause.

From now on this letter will be written by Anabel Bueno, one of my companions.

You already know her: Anabel is the author of the matrioskas about BoJack Horseman and she is the one who discovered the podcast

¡Ay, campaneras!

by Lidia García.

In addition, she is responsible for the matrioskas being so graphically beautiful.

She is young, smart and feminist, and I am sure that she will coordinate these letters wonderfully and take care of the space that we have built in these years.

As in the challenge of women writers, however much there are parts of our lives in which we are getting feminism to be incorporated, there is still a lot to do.

For this reason, although the matryoshka does not always talk about feminism and sometimes we open the focus - as in this letter about the borrowed objects that you never returned - I am sure that Anabel will continue to write it with feminism incorporated.

LATELY, I HAVE LIKED TO READ

I'm addicted to to-do lists.

It is the only way I have to organize my day / my week and that I do not forget things along the way (if it happens to you too, you will love to fill in the pages of this notebook).

During all this time I have been keeping links that I wanted to share with you in these letters.

I am sending you a final battery: some have several weeks (and even months) and were there waiting to serve as inspiration for future texts.

But I don't want them to stay by the wayside.

1.

Love with borders

(

The Guardian

, in English).

A photographic essay on the border between Switzerland and Germany, whose inhabitants were separated by restrictions due to the coronavirus.

Many couples have spent these months apart.

Here we talk to some (who later told us about their reunions).

Roland Schmid's photographs in The Guardian go further and show us picnics separated by a border and border encounters.

2.

What a pleasure to travel when you go on the train!

The news that the Lusitania, the night train that linked Madrid and Lisbon, had complained about making that journey was lost among the news of the coronavirus.

The train has always been by far my favorite mode of transportation.

And the night trains have left me some memorable stories, including this one, where I saw how the Portuguese soccer team won the Euro 2016. Dozens of passengers milling around a tablet;

Portuguese travelers who held their breath every time the connection was lost because we went through a tunnel.

Have you ever made that night journey and woke up in Lisbon?

Do you have stories on night trains?

3.

More

pull

(

Traveler

).

I had never asked myself this question until I saw it is this headline:

Why do we know absolutely nothing about gypsy cuisine?

And I realized that, indeed, I have no idea.

In addition to the pull, this article reveals a wonderful work by the Alicia Foundation that can be downloaded for free: the book

Halar, cuina gitana a Catalunya

(in Catalan).

4.

Don't ask for forgiveness

(

Verne

).

You already know that at Verne we try to talk about mental health naturally, to avoid stigmas on topics such as anxiety.

In our last collaboration with Sara Caballería, we illustrated a true story (which happened to Nacho Rosell and which he shared on Twitter with great success).

Why does someone with an anxiety attack feel guilty?

Would you apologize if instead of an anxiety attack you had a heart attack?

Why are justifications and excuses necessary in mental health cases?

5.

Mariana Enríquez and the fear that we all feel

(

Magazine of the University of Mexico

).

Precisely, this text is entitled

Anxiety.

It is part of the Diario de la Pandemia issue and, in it, the writer and author of

Our Part of the Night

reflects on the fear and insecurities that attack us right now.

And about the inability to find words, even to think clearly.

"Think short," she calls it.

6.

That is not wanting

(eldiario.es).

Obviously, this text by Paula Bonet about the harassment she is suffering is not something that I liked to read.

I wish I didn't have to write it.

But it is what you are experiencing and it needs to be known.

And like her (as she also says), many more.

7.

And finally, a book

.

One of those readings with incorporated feminism that was recommended to my friend at the Women Bookstore and that she bequeathed to me:

Little fires everywhere

, by Celeste Ng (Alba Editorial).

Maybe it sounds like you because a (great) miniseries based on the book and starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington has been released.

The two main characters are female and very rich, with nuances, doubts and contradictions.

And the plot invites us to reflect on conflicts of social class, expectations and self-demand.

THIS MUST SEE

As in these letters we have talked about many personal things, although with a bit of modesty I come to show off something that has been hanging in the hallway of my house for a few months.

My birthday coincided with the beginning of the de-escalation, that moment in which we believed that little by little we would recover our life or at least something similar to a “new normal”.

At least we could kick town.

Based on those walks, I received a wonderful gift: an illustration by María Castelló with the plaques in Madrid dedicated to women.

There are just five dozen (in all of Madrid!).

I leave you some of the illustrations that María Castelló shared on her Instagram account.

And I invite you - I ask you - two things: the first is that you walk through your streets, towns and cities, looking at the plates and names.

The second is that you love illustrators very much.

For me, with their work they have become a fundamental channel of culture and also of feminism.

See this post on Instagram

A post shared by María Castelló Solbes (@marietacastello) on Sep 16, 2020 at 2:19 PDT

See this post on Instagram

A post shared by María Castelló Solbes (@marietacastello) on Jun 8, 2020 at 2:52 PDT

See this post on Instagram

A post shared by María Castelló Solbes (@marietacastello) on Jun 5, 2020 at 2:41 PDT

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