Our feminist genealogy

See Aranguren, Edur Epelde, Iratxe Retolaza

Emagin, 2015

After ten years of work, Dec genealogy feminist has seen the light. A chronicle of the Feminist Movement of the Basque Country. The 600-page book lists feminist groups, demands and initiatives from the 1960s to the present day.

The Feminist Research and Documentation Center Emagin and Bilgune Feminist of Euskal Herria created the need to collect the chronicle of Euskal Herria feminisms. Look at Aranguren, Edur Epelde and Iratxe Retolaza have created the book.

In the presentation that took place at the Koldo Mitxelena center of Donostia, Iratxe Esnaola called the robbers and expoliadores: “You have opened the patriarchal night, black gloves cover our mouth. (…) You can’t lose our memory.” In the feminist struggle, at the beginning, he thanked those who set themselves in motion with the torches in his hand, “you have brought us all in that fire.”

For ten years, the book collects information about groups from all over Euskal Herria, including photos, posters and stickers. In the authors' opinion, this was a work to be done. This is a book addressed to militant feminists of yesterday and today, but also to anyone interested in feminism or gender issues. As they have explained, during the work they have known a great movement that was in the shadow, and that began with Ipar Euskal Herria. The book is an appeal to feminist organization and awareness.

See Aranguren resumed Iratxe Esnaola’s words saying that it is a dark and long night that of the patriarchy and “we all gather strength or cannot be done”.

The presentation room was crowded, the loft of the cultural center. There is the exhibition that will remain open until 13 June. Guided tours will be carried out through the exhibition. On the other hand, a round table, a talk, a workshop and a radio programme will be offered during May and June.