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Inur launches her video podcast (Min)bizi on Monday to break cancer taboos from feminism

  • “Because cancer is not pink, but a terrible brown,” say members of the Inurri association, and they have made it clear that in the podcast they will also be punk. The nine sections collect the information and experiences they wanted to hear when receiving the diagnosis. The programme will be led by Olatz Mercader, who will invite both experts and those who have completed the cancer process.

18 November 2022 - 12:32
Last updated: 15:10
Inurri elkarteko kideak, Sandra Barkaiztegi Navarro, Elena Guinea eta Olatz Mercader. / Argazkia: Dani Blanco.

The first session of the videopodcast (Min)bizi will be released on 21 November at 20:00 and will also be offered in the Sutegi auditorium in Usurbil, along with its protagonists. The nine chapters will be published in the coming weeks and will be displayed on the YouTube and Spotify platforms as well as on the ARGIA multimedia channel. The program, led by Olatz Mercadona, confirms that “no tobacco or beard in the mouth” will talk about all the edges of cancer, from feminism and solidarity, as is usual in the Inurri association.

Seeing that in Basque there is something “very little” about cancer, and “frustrated” with campaigns painted pink, the authors of (Min)bizi have addressed the complexity of cancer. A grant from the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa for the realization of this program of “Listening to recent diagnosis”. The Spanish version will also be published from December 5 in four sections of Dragon Cancer.

Each section will be linked to a topic (diagnosis, treatment, physical exercise, nutrition, sexuality...) and will be addressed by two women who have completed the cancer process and another expert – psychologist, researcher, physician, teacher, physiotherapist...... Mercadona has highlighted that she has “excited” the generosity of her participants and thanked the effort to publicly tell her own experiences.

Ants in eleven corners

The association Izan Inurri, founded a couple of years ago, is dedicated to the elimination of cancer taboos and to the construction of a network of solidarity from feminism, which groups people suffering from cancer, have suffered or have a family member or friend with cancer. The demands of the members of Inurri began to open up to the four winds, and in the last year many initiatives have been organized to address the issue naturally, as well as from the pain. This is also what the women of one breast reported in this ARGIA report.

In addition to his accompaniment, Inur performs a divulgative work on social networks and has divulged his vision of life and disease in programs of solidary musical bertsos “From the box of taboos to the stage”. They will continue to do so in these videopodcasts following their motto: “We all die and what do we do? Live to death!”


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