The size (of the us) is what counts

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Journalists Marian Álvarez and Javier Moreno debate the supposed increase in xenophobic attitudes on the islands due to the presence of a greater number of immigrants. Go to download The issue, Moreno points out, is that the issue of xenophobia is usually addressed as the anomaly of a supposed “natural universality.” That is to say, the issue is dealt with “the opposite” of what history and anthropology seem to demonstrate. “We are not universalists by nature, we do not love universal human rights as soon as we are born, nor do we become racist because the streets are filled with immigrants.” For Moreno, the universality of rights is a historical achievement, consisting of recognizing for others the same rights and freedoms that we recognize for “us”, the smallest of the family, tribe or nation. In his opinion, a person treating people outside their small sphere as “barbarians” has been the most frequent thing throughout history and until very recent times. He points out that cosmopolitanism or universalism is an “artificial” attitude. Alexis Ravelo: “The crime novel cannot be a macho genre” The author of 'A guy with a bag over his head' comments on the keys to the success of the Aridane criminal festival, held on the island of La Palma.

Go to download The writer Alexis Ravelo, author of 'A Guy with a Bag Over His Head', is the coordinator of the crime novel festival 'Aridane criminal', recently held on the island of La Palma, “a fantastic experience that we are going to repeat next year coming". It is, he says, an alternative festival that is more attentive to quality than quantity and that includes debates and entertainment to keep up with the times. In this regard, he indicates that the crime novel can no longer be “that macho genre,” but rather it is a genre open to other voices, especially WhatsApp Number List female ones, “with excellent authors who have changed the way we see the genre.” He also points out that the festival was a good element for the representation of what is done in the Canary Islands and what is done outside. It affirms the festival's vocation to grow, including African authors and promoting the literary creation of new authors. He states that they are thinking of a type of award that, instead of remunerating already published works, allows for a writing residency to be awarded to the most promising authors.



Transits”, a comic to expose the different avenues that trans people can take advantage of Comic "Transits" |  ALGARABÍA ASSOCIATION Comic "Transits" | ALGARABÍA ASSOCIATION Cristina Pérez Sánchez, project coordinator of the LGTBI Algarabía association, points out that the material allows the different available protocols to be presented in an entertaining and educational way. Go to download The LGTBI Algarabía association has made the comic “Tránsitos” in order to have material that explains the resources, the accompaniment service that the association has and the protocols that exist in the Canary Islands for trans people, as explained by the coordinator of projects, Cristina Pérez. It is a work in which the designer Eduardo Padrino has collaborated and which is aimed at trans people, families and citizens. The material can be collected in calendar format from the association itself by prior request. It will soon be available in downloadable format. Support for the Trans Law Pérez shows his support for the processing of the Trans Law that the government is currently studying and which, in his opinion, “should include the rights of the entire group.” He assures that, as a collective, they will continue fighting for this law to pass “and support gender self-determination”: “You cannot depend on where you live, there has to be a state standard.