This document contains two poems by a young Majorcan woman poet about her life feeling like a washing machine on a variable spin cycle that never stops, along with a poem about a woman tattooing her name on her skin after a man's unfaithfulness. It also contains several comics about gender roles and domestic responsibilities, including one showing a woman listing all the jobs she does and one showing a modern man expressing how he wants to love a woman. The document discusses how these poems and comics reflect issues still facing women today and the need for continued progress.

1. ANNALISA MARÍ PEGRUM
Two poems by a young Majorcan woman poet
… and a few comics

2. programa de centrifugado variable
mi vida es una lavadora
que nunca se apaga:
posee un
centrifugado
variable,
monótono
pero constante
-de entre 900 y 1200 RPM va la cosa,
y aun corro el riesgo de aburrirme-.
hoy he cambiado
el programa de la lavadora
y bajo el montón
de piel muerta
he encontrado
bolitas de pelusa
calcetines extraviados
y en la esquina
unas bragas viejas
como estandarte de una vida
-lavadora blanca-que
nunca se apaga

3. variable spin program
my life is like a washing machine
which never stops:
it has a
variable
and monotonous
but steady
spin
-between 900 and 1200 RPMs ,
and yet I run the risk of getting bored.
Today I changed
the washing program
and under the pile of
dead skin
I found
balls of fluff
lost socks
and at the corner
some old panties
like the flag of a life
White washing machine-which
never stops.

4. DNI
anoche cuando te pidieron
a cuántas mujeres habías amado
fingí indiferencia
pero frente al espejo
al llegar a casa
busqué la carne más tierna
y tatué en ella mi nuevo y viejo nombre:
Nadie sabrá lo nuestro.
ellos tampoco.

5. IDENTITY CARD
last night when you were asked
how many women you had loved
I feigned indifference
but in the mirror
when I got home
I looked for the softest skin
and tattooed on it my new and old name:
No one will know about us.
And neither will they.

6. Why did we choose these two poems?
Quite simply because they represent young women today. In certain ways, things haven’t changed
The second poem speaks clearly about a man’s unfaithfulness and how this still affects women
That is why we have chosen these two images of a faceless woman, we still have a lot of work

7. finally, some comics
How men and women see things differently as we saw in Italy.

8. Men and housework as we saw in Portugal.

9. One of Spain’s most famous cartoonists also shows

10. So, what is happening in this first comic. Well, the manasks the
woman what her job is and she says that she is a cleaner, a cook, a
maid, a seamstress (a woman who sews), a woman who irons, a baby-sitter,
a telephonist, a receptionist, a taxi-driver, a psychiatrist, a nurse,
a playschool monitor, an economist, a storeroom manager, a
mathematician, a sensual Geisha and a lover.
The man says that the description doesn't fit in the space he has and
so the woman says well, put housewife instead!!
This cartoon was published on the 8th of March, International Woman's
day!
In the second cartoon, also published on the 8th of March, we can see
a man watching television and a woman with a mop saying: I don't
understand. I have a husband, two children, a wonderful house, my
own car, I have a job as an executive, I find myself at the prime of my
life ….. I should be happy but instead, I am really fed up.
At the end, Forges says in brackets (if this happens in developped
countries, imagine what happens in the third world)

11. But fortunately, things are changing slowly but surely as we saw in Greece.

12. In this comic, we can see a woman and a man with placards.
The woman's placard says: If you love me
Don't shout at me
Don't insult me
Don't ignore me
Don't hit me
Don't rape me
Don't kill me
JUST LOVE ME!
And this modern man has a placard which says:
I LOVE YOU
Free
Fearless
Without discrimination
With a decent job
Respected
And happy!
A LOT OF ALL OF THIS

13. And with this project, hopefully we can all spread the word that, although we are different,