Jesús Pobre teaches the young women of the municipality to defend themselves against sexist violence
On July 7, 8 and 9, the Eatim de Jesús Pobre has given a course on feminist self-defense against sexist violence, and which has had the specialist in the matter Maitena Monroy, displaced from Euskadi.
The course consisted of a feminist self-defense workshop in which 14 young people between the ages of 14 and 20 participated, to identify all forms of sexist violence and unlearn gender roles.
The course has had a dynamic format, in the Jesús Pobre City Council itself, in which theoretical contents such as the social construction of gender and sexist stereotypes have been interspersed, such as romantic love, sexual terror, psychological abuse or cyberbullying .
In the practical section, favor the empowerment of adolescents and young people, as well as the resources to know how to act in the face of different expressions of sexist violence.
This workshop closes the program that began on June 28 with the course "How to talk about sexuality and diversity with your sons and daughters", aimed at fathers and mothers and taught by the sexologist Carmen Sánchez Ruano, who within the program in Matters of equality and eradication of gender violence are subsidized by the Alicante Provincial Council.