The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, will visit Lanzarote this week to participate in an event at the José Saramago Library, in 'A Casa' Tías, on the occasion of the writer's centenary. The event, entitled "Literature and Equality", will take place this Saturday, July 23 and will be open to the public, and can also be followed by streaming.
"José Saramago, throughout his work and in his civic militancy, always declared himself in favor of gender equality. He was an active citizen against the mistreatment suffered by women and vindicated the essential and necessary role of women for the humanization of society. For his social and literary activism he received the Men against Gender Violence Award", they recall from his Foundation.
The intervention of the Minister of Podemos will be preceded by the reading of fragments of and about the work of the Portuguese writer by seven women, seven Canary voices: the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo; the Government Delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell; the magistrate and co-founder of the AMJE, Gloria Poyatos; the Minister of Equality of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana; the president of the Mararía Association, Nieves Rosa Hernández; the president of the Equality Commission of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, María del Río; and the journalist and feminist activist from Lanzarote, Amparo Perdomo.
The event, which will be opened by the president of the José Saramago Foundation, Pilar del Río, will feature a presentation by José Saramago reflecting on the need for men to join in the construction of an egalitarian society.
