The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, delivered this morning in the city of Cervantes to “MAVI: the Travelling Suitcase Against Gender Violence”, with 11 books to work for an effective and real equality between men and women through the reading of texts with a feminist perspective both for adults and for girls and boys.
The deputy delegate and the Head of the Gender Violence Unit of the Subdelegation, María Luisa Castro, handed over the MAVI to the mayor, Benigno Gómez, with the aim of combating acts derived from the patriarchal system in all the municipalities of the province.
“We want to promote reflection among the neighborhood around gender violence, so we bet and facilitate municipalities to join in the fight against this structural violence, defending that public administrations must continue to offer programs that contribute to the awareness of society,” said Rodríguez, again emphasizing that “this is a matter of state and of great social relevance that seriously misses women and girls for the simple fact of seal.”
The deputy delegate also defended “the municipal nature of the initiative with a fundamental role of the municipalities, among which it continues to be very well received, reaching the large part of the population and also rural municipalities that may have less facilities to access this type of materials”.
Rodríguez stressed that education and culture are fundamental bases for the fight against this type of violence, being “very important the promotion of specialized reading that favors a collective awareness and that can be decisive when taking sides and stopping situations of violence and discrimination based on sex.”
These new books are added to those of the suitcases that have already passed through Viveiro, Sarria, Quiroga, Meira, Vilalba and Trabada, as well as those of the penitentiary centers of Bonxe and Monterroso. There are three suitcases that are currently traveling through the province with the material to work on this subject and that follow the mission of offering a new look at a problem that affects and affects the whole society.
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The suitcase has eleven books of children's and youth literature so that people of all ages can be part of the project, including a diary where they can express their reflections and opinions on the contents and experiences they had through reading.
Among the works that are in the suitcase are the titles “Is there anything more boring than being a pink princess?” by Raquel Díaz Reguera; “Cinderella wool that in him I wanted to eat partridges” by Nunila López and Myriam Cameros; “All I should be feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozy; “Girls wool are warriors: 26 rebels who changed the world” by Irene Cívico and Sergio Parra; “My husband beats me the normal” by Miguel Lorente; “Infamia” by Ledicia Costas; “Amelia, story of a struggle” by Amelia Tiganus; “Tired” by Nuria Varela; “Those days when we were bad” by Inma López Silva; “Feminist Rosalía” by Helena González; and “My daughters gave me back my life. A real story” by Inés Fernández Lamela.