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Lucía Lijtmaer, Sandra Sabatés and Eva Baltasar sign denouncing sexist violence and brandishing their tough and independent protagonists
With a Bic pen, but in purple: a true symbol of the feminist struggle. With it in her left hand she has signed this Sant Jordi Sandra Sabates his latest book, ‘Don’t tell me stories’, stories of real women about sexist violence. The presenter of ‘El intermedia’, between signature and signature, is categorical: “You have to denounce.” Among the readers who approach the journalist, women but also many men, and all young, she assures her. “I write to you that hopefully soon stories like the ones I tell in the book can be explained as if they were stories, starting with ‘Once upon a time’, because they have become part of the past, that we have left violence behind once and for all of gender and that women can be free and live without fear”.
Sabatés insists: “Some readers tell you personal stories of overcoming them. You have to tell them. You have to share the stories of sexist violence because that helps other women to have the tools to detect these behaviors in time and to know that they are not alone.”
Also combative is his fellow journalist and writer Lucia Lijtmaer, with considerable queues during the morning and hair completely wet from the rain that has penetrated the awning of the stand. After tests like ‘Offended’ present novel, ‘cautery’, crossed story of two women, one today and the other in the seventeenth century, with a common experience of violence and desire for rebellion.
“Cauterize what generates violence”
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“The cautery is an instrument to cauterize pain and infections. And I think that everything that generates violence, lack of understanding and lack of solidarity should be cauterized,” says Lijtmaer, who in the face of sexist violence also calls for “more awareness , more education and more resources. She signs the Argentine raised and settled in Barcelona with a blue liquid ink marker, just like Eva Baltasar, novelist and poet whose protagonists are always “tough and independent women”.
Baltasar and his ‘Mamut’
with his ‘Mamut’, closure of the triptych that began with ‘Permagel’ and ‘Boulder’, Balthazar It has placed third in the provisional ‘ranking’ of the day’s best sellers in Catalan. “New readers and others have come with the entire brochure for me to sign,” she recounts happily. “People tell me that my protagonists lead enviable lives, I imagine that they envy that they are capable of running away, of leaving everything and going to the periphery,” she deduces. “The three try to live in coherence with themselves, whether they succeed or not is something else, but they try to keep a lucid look at what surrounds them and be themselves, with their lights, but also with their shadows. We have to claim also the darkness, being as you are or as you want to be”.