Huesca.- The social educator, writer and monologist Marina Marroquí will be in the province of Huesca this week to raise awareness against gender violence.
Marroquí will be the protagonist of several activities aimed especially at adolescents and young people that have been organized by the Violence against Women Unit of the Subdelegation of the Government of Huesca.
The programming of these activities, carried out with the collaboration of Fundación Ibercaja, the Comarca of the Monegros and the municipalities of Fraga and Sabiñánigo, has placed special emphasis on bringing the message against gender violence closer to the rural areas of the province of Huesca.
The educator will give two workshops for families, teachers and the general public: in Huesca capital (Wednesday 21, Ibercaja Foundation) and in Grañén, (Thursday 22, at 6 p.m., in the assembly hall of the City Council).
Likewise, Moroccan will represent on Thursday 22 in the morning the monologue This is not Sex before the students of the IES of Sabiñánigo (IES Biello Aragón and IES San Alberto Magno). The appointment is at 10 in the morning at the La Colina Auditorium.
Friday 23 is Fraga’s turn, where the monologue This is not Love before the students of the IES of Fraga (IES Bajo Cinca and IES Ramón J. Sender) in the Florida Room at 10 a.m.
These activities are open to the participation of other educational centers and the general public, after registration and confirmation of places in the following links: Sabiñánigo, Grañén and Fraga. You can also do the management through the mail of the Unit of Violence against Women: unidades_violencia.huesca@correo.gob.es.
The monologues for teenagers from Marina Marroquí are intended to dismantle the numerous male stereotypes about sex and love that circulate on social networks to which minors and young people are very exposed and provide them with tools to make a critical reading of them.
About Marina Marroquí
The Valencian Marina Marroquí is a social educator, specialist in gender violence and author of the books That is not Love: 30 challenges to work on equality and That's not Sex: Another sex education is urgent".
She has given workshops on prevention and early detection of gender violence in adolescents to hundreds of young people and has trained professionals in the police, legal, health and educational fields, providing them with tools for detection and intervention with victims of gender violence.