Yolanda Díaz addresses men directly to unfold her conception of feminism. The leader of Sumar has given the keys to her position on this matter, calling for a “99% feminism” and distancing himself from feminism that “places itself in a cornerin the trenches”, which could well be attributed to the more identity theses of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, excluded from Sumar’s lists.
“Feminism is not at war with menis in favor of freedoms,” Sumar’s candidate defended, in an act on feminisms at the Pavón Theater in Madrid, warning that Santiago Abascal’s “caveman right” seeks to “divide& rdquor; the feminist movement and society. “Feminism is not only an emancipatory movement aimed at society as a whole, but also at men,” Díaz warned at the event, which was led by the actress Anabel Alonso and where they participated Elizabeth Ducalthe philosopher Clara Serrathe councilor of Más Madrid Carolina Elias or the Colombian activist Mafe Carrascal.
“We lose when we divide at the bottom, let them divide! We cannot divide. Feminism loses when placed in a cornerin the trenches, and wins when we go all out, with optimism and hope,” argued the leader of Sumar, who defined her position: “Sumar’s feminism is that of 99%. Let’s not fall into his trapLet’s not fall into the war of the sexes. Is not true”.
One of the first references made by the second vice president of the Government at the beginning of the act was aimed precisely at its male audience. “In the public we have men who also join the freedoms for which we have been working, men who fight sexism In our country, men who fight homophobia”, began Díaz, who advanced that “as of July 23 we will continue working together with these men to continue winning rights”.
Against “guardianship”
In the same sense, the spokesperson for feminisms expressed herself, Elizabeth Duval, which denounced that “an attempt has been made to draw an image of feminism that dwarfs it, which is increasingly narrow and where fewer people fit”. The philosopher herself departed from the maximalist theses of the movement, with a forceful statement: “Feminism is not a cultural battle, it is not a question of identity nor a philosophical debate. It is the most complete and radical social transformation project for the 21st century.”
Sumar’s spokeswoman rejected attempts to “guard or direct” the feminist movement, as Montero has been doing in recent months, who frequently equated feminism with his Ministry of Equality. Instead, Duval defended that this movement “has its wealth” and that from institutional politics it should “focus on improving people’s lives” and “taking responsibility for many struggles.”
On this, Yolanda Díaz also intervened, who stood out from her management at the Ministry of Labor, assuring that the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage “is a feminist policy”, because when it was approved “in the midst of a crisis in Spain”, it was reduced by four points the pay gap. “Talking about feminism is talking about politics for the people,” summed up the leader of Sumar, who recalled her proposal to reduce working hours without a salary reduction. “It’s feminist to leave an hour before work, because we do not live to work; we work to live,” she proclaimed, causing the audience to burst into applause.
“Talk again”
One of the most applauded interventions of the act was that of the philosopher Clara Serra, former deputy for Podemos and Más Madrid who left politics in 2019 and is now a researcher at the University of Barcelona. The feminist philosopher, who has become one of Sumar’s main ideological references in this area, has valued majority feminism and has asked “not to give up” on the sector of society that does not feel part of the movement .
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“Today more than ever we need talk to him again to those people, to those boys of 18, 19, 20 years What do anti-feminist ‘youtubers’ watch?” or “who think their party is Vox”. “You have to talk to those guys and convince them, because one of The most valuable things about feminism is that it believes that things can change, they can be transformed, and we are faced with an extreme right that believes that things do not change”, defended Serra. In this sense, he asked not to buy the frames of the extreme right, which believes that “the only solution is more jail, more sentences “, and called for” not punitive solutions, but transformative ones.
The researcher stated that “the most revolutionary thing about feminism is that it is for everyone”, and pointed to March 8, 2018 as a turning point, when “feminism came out of the places where it was confined, from feminist experts or militants, and began to speak to society.” “That 8M was historic because many people had joined that fight without coming from it: there were women of all ages, many men and that is precisely the feminism for everyone who is in a position to fight the extreme right“. At this point, he warned that the extreme right wants to confine feminism to “a part of society” and “a part of the left”. A context where Serra set a challenge, which de facto articulates the entire thesis of Sumar: ” We have to prove again that feminism speaks to everyone.”