Last week, Cristina you will fail posted on his account Instagram the testimony of a woman who denounced sexist behavior on the part of a politician. Shortly after, Iñigo Errejón resigned from his position at Congress of Deputies. The debate over what happened has been fierce and has focused primarily on the man’s behavior. But it is also aimed at the writer. The reason: he has prepared a book with similar testimonies which will be put on sale on November 11, under the title Don’t publish my name. On social networks he was accused of having made this publication for profit, causing the downfall of the politician with the intention of publicizing the book.
In response to these accusations, the Cristina you will failwhose account has been closed Instagram after what was published. In a new story, the journalist stressed that she did not intend to make money from the book, but rather that anything raised from her work would go to the charity. Action of the Comadres.
The book’s publisher, Siglo XXI Editores, also objected to the story. Editor Emili Albi commented by telephone with EL ESPAÑOL: “It didn’t happen like that. Let’s see the dates of the whole process to get an idea of how everything went. She proposed this book in MarchAfter Instagram will close your account for the first time.
This closure caused Fallarás to lose hundreds of testimonies from women who had told him their stories, those of their mothers, grandmothers or the women around them. “That’s what motivated this. She was afraid of having lost everything she had accumulated over the years,” Albi continues.
Deadlines for the book were met at the beginning of last October. “The contract was signed shortly after the proposal, but the deadlines are very long. The book It was communicated to the press, to booksellers and closed between September and October, before all this happened,” says Albi.
The publisher’s representative insists that “Fallarás will not be the beneficiary of the copyright of the book. Iran intended for an association to fight against gender violence [Acción Comadres]. By contract, she will not receive any form of remuneration for the sale of the book.”
The editor couldn’t imagine what was going to happen last week. “I I discovered Errejón thanks to a cell phone alarm“, Albi is surprised. “We had no idea, we experienced it as bad news and as something that could jeopardize the project. The book is a sort of repository and memory of women,” she says. “It’s absurd that we moved anything in a Machiavellian way, we would have expected it to be in the street.”
In the publishing house, they experienced it with “a lot of concern”. In reality, there is something logical about all this fuss, but if you think about it for more than two seconds, you will understand that a publishing house like 21st centurythat we have been making books since 67 and we are very serious, we are not a commercial entity looking to get rich.
So, thinking a little more, Albi points out that “what all these accusations seek is to distract attention from what is important. This book is intended to be a call to conscience. for what women suffer And a historical document. “For anyone who has any idea, it’s impossible to connect all the facts and I would tell you that hurts us.”
“For us, this is not good news,” he emphasizes. “We believe that can sully a project of justice; “She is not going to get rich from this book, if you look at the prestige of the publisher you will see that there is nothing sensational about it.”
Don’t publish my name
Cristina Fallarás’ book is called Don’t publish my name. Contains a prologue by the author in which his working methodology is explained and talks about the movement ‘It’s over’. “How, why did he do that,” Albi said. Then, the body of the text contains a compilation of anonymous testimonies.
“He does not designate anyone, no charges will be found“, specifies the editor. “It is a compilation of women’s voices, historical content to be fixed for the future”, he insists, without social networks being able to delete it due to internal criteria or because of its closure.
In the book you can find testimonies collected by Cristina Fallarás until January 2024. “The testimonies we have are those collected until the beginning of this year. It is impossible to include that of Errejón because the book was already done. Nor is it the aim of the book to denounce who whatever,” said Albi.
Additionally, it contains an epilogue from the feminist sociologist Nerea Barjola. “Does an academic study on what this means sexual violence in our country“, underlines Albi The work of Cristina Fallarás.
“The tip of the iceberg”
Cristina Fallarás participated this Monday in a forum in Tenerife entitled “Literature is feminine”. Hours before the event, he spoke to the media at a press conference and explained that Errejón’s case is only “the tip of the iceberg”. In fact, he called it “the first case to come out”.
The writer herself wondered why this happened now and replied: “Little by little we are moving forward. The advancement of women is slow because we use tools that They are not those of the patriarchy, they are not the police and the courts.. “There are other channels, which are new and which take time.”
He also emphasized that “things happen that didn’t happen beforeand women’s history, for example, brings down political leaders.
You will fail, who spoke of the case of Elisa Mouliaa and other women who plan to denounce Errejón following his example, said there is no process to verify these stories. “Who wants to lie?“In the morning, instead of having coffee and a muffin, say that my father touched me?”
