By Myriam Perez | Project Leader
“What you call “Love”
You find yourself standing seconds away from doing it again, suddenly life becomes an infinite loop. Bound by your chains I try to breathe, but you suffocate me, taking away the little oxygen I can breathe. You ask me to get up again and again, while you pull and pull the chain that you prefer to call "love"
Women victims of violence write to avoid being labeled, women dodge every day the fear of contempt, censorship and annihilation and, even so, they end up being defined as "unstable", "anxious", "depressed", dependent”, “obsessive”, or “insecure”.
To dare to say is to exercise a right. When a woman or group of women externalizes the problems that affect them and understand that these problems are related to what culture and social history dictate for them, a transformation occurs. Saying and writing allows us to confirm that we are alive, physically and mentally, and that we can tell it.
These 14 texts are intimate and political dialogues, dialogues that refuse to continue naturalizing violence.
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