A crowd of Dianenses and visitors came today, March 8, to the Plaza del Consell for an event organized by the Dénia City Council on the occasion of International Women's Day. The event, where different political representatives, Creama students and this year's honorees, Ana Albarracín and Marisa Ferrándiz, were present, consisted of the reading of a manifesto and a subsequent show in order to ask for equality between men and women .
Javier Scotto, councilor for Equality, has expressed some words with which he has valued the fight against inequality, sexual assaults, sexist violence, bullying or sexting and discrimination against women. "Only by advancing equality between women and men will we ensure that our municipalities are municipalities of freedom, security and social progress," he declared.
The councilor has highlighted that the new youth now "studies, learns and advances with women", but has not failed to remember those who are no longer here: the women victims of gender violence. "Our world will be better if we advance with women, but not at their expense," he added.
Next, the students of Creama Dénia have read a manifesto where they have claimed "the need for more strength to eradicate the scourge that the patriarchal system represents for everyone" and ask for a series of changes, both in social and cultural constructs, attitudinal and of the collective imagination.
«We need to be masters of our body, our desires and our decisions. We need to stop the attacks and the multiple violence that we suffer. We need a society that values sexual diversity, gender identity and expression," they mentioned.
Furthermore, the young women have emphasized "not losing what is being achieved" and remaining "firm and eager to continue moving forward." Under the cry "always strong and always brave!", they finished their speech to applause.
To conclude the event, the Dos en Vilo company presented the contemporary circus show Faüla, the story of the transformation of two women through a cage, which serves as a metaphor for patriarchal society. In the show the artists have represented the stages of a traditional woman's life in which girls' games, menstruation, heels, makeup... are present, until reaching motherhood and the figure of a housewife.
At a certain point in the performance, through reading and acquiring knowledge, they can become feminists and end the oppression of machismo, being free.
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