Hundreds of people gathered on the afternoon of this past Tuesday, November 25, as they do every year, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Lanzarote. In a mobilization that started at 6:30 p.m. from the Cuatro Esquinas area in Arrecife to the Casa Amarilla, attendees carried signs that read: "No more violence against women," "no one asked me what my aggressor was wearing" or "Neither forgiveness nor forgetting, justice".
During this mobilization, called for by the Lanzarote Forum Against Gender Violence, a manifesto was read and a performance was held in tribute to the victims of male violence.
On this occasion, some of the attendees opted to dress up as characters from Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, whose adaptation to the small screen has made it one of the most relevant series of the last decade. This dystopian series takes place in a totalitarian country governed by a Christian government, where fertile women are forced and sexually exploited.
