I survived two suicide attempts caused by gender-based abuse, no one saw it coming. Because that is the lie: we believe that pain has a face, that depression is noticeable. It is not like that. I smiled. I remember the ambulance, the cold, the loneliness. Without my mother or my father, both in another country. I was going through something that no one explained to me could happen. In the emergency room, they treated my wound, put a bandage on me, and made me wait. The psychiatrist told me to seek help at a center and let me go. I left just as alone, but more broken. No one talks about giving everything in a relationship and only receiving blows, about losing yourself little by little: your dreams and your identity. We live pretending stability because that is how we fit in. Because the more we appear to be fine, the more respect we get. But that respect is false: it comes from betraying ourselves. No one sees what is behind a smile. No one expects someone “like you” to break. Because in this society, pretending to be happy earns you respect.
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Yinela Cheribin. Málaga
Mass regularization of immigrants
The mass regularization of immigrants in an irregular situation approved by the Government was already overdue, as it makes no sense that more than half a million residents in our country continue living clandestinely, despite occupying many of the jobs that, for some unspeakable reason, the natives reject. As the Government spokesperson said in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, without immigrants more than 9,000 bars in Spain would disappear, thousands of schools would close, many of our elderly would lose their caregivers, the harvest would remain in the fields, etc. Measures like these clearly portray each of the parties that ask us for our vote when elections come.
Mario Suárez. Pilas (Seville)
Orbán’s defeat
The result of the legislative elections in Hungary has an interesting reading in the Spanish political landscape that I do not know if the PP will see: Orbán’s defeat could be a turning point in the political weight that Vox and other European far-right parties have had so far. Their blatant and unconditional support for Orbán could allow the PP to make a striking move on the regional board if it dared to call elections now in the communities where Vox feels justified to impose its program on the PP, from A to Z, despite the notable differences in seats. It is more than likely that a considerable proportion of Vox voters would vote for the PP and that this would even be repeated in future general elections, once the trend that has surprisingly grown Abascal’s party in recent months is reversed. That said, is it expected that this PP has the political instinct to make a decision of that magnitude? I don’t think so.
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José Manuel Martínez Alcalde. Granada
Photojournalism
Rosalía’s concert in Barcelona, during her Lux tour, has reopened the debate about the limit between artists’ freedom and the work of photojournalists. It is understandable that artists want to control their image, but it is still a concert in front of the public, so it seems excessive to me that access to photojournalists has been prohibited. I believe that limiting journalistic work prevents offering a complete and plural view of cultural events.
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Carla Ferrer Valls. Barcelona
