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Within the cycle 'Encuentros de pensamiento feminista', the jurist and feminist Octavio Salazar will talk about his book 'The man we should not be', on Tuesday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m., in the Josefina Soria library of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy.

The cycle is part of the program 'Cartagena Piensa', with the collaboration of the Department of Culture and Equality of the city of Cartagena.

In the act will intervene the author, Octavio Salazar, and will be presented by María José Mercader, coordinator of the Department of Equality and the facilitator of groups of men on New Masculinities (Association AHIGE), José Antonio Ruiz.

'The man we should not be' has the subtitle 'The masculine revolution that so many women have been waiting for for centuries', linking with the current theme of the new masculinities, that reconstruction of the human being that must necessarily accompany the feminist change that our lives societies.

According to the author, "this book is not a memorial of all the grievances that men, as privileged subjects, have committed throughout history.

This book does not intend to settle accounts with man, but with patriarchy.

This book looks at the present and especially the future.

Because what is intended is to place men in front of the mirror so that we reflect on everything that we should not be and to indicate the itinerary to follow in order to build us in another way.

New men that we finally make possible a society in which we stop being the powerful and they are subordinated. "

THE AUTHOR

Octavio Salazar is a feminist man, queer father, heterodox jurist, and Cordovan born in Cabra.

She is dedicated to teaching and researching Constitutional Law at the University of Córdoba.

Belongs to the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law and the Network of Men for equality.

He collaborates in several media and has a personal blog: lashoras octavio.blogspot.com.

She has published several essays on gender equality: The hours: women's time (2006), Cartographies of equality (2010), Masculinities and citizenship: men also have gender (2013);

Equality in filming: masculinities, gender and cinema (2015);

Autonomy, gender and diversity: Feminist itineraries for an intercultural democracy (2017).

Self-portrait of a dissident male is his first novel.

His last book is this essay, The man we should not be (2018)

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena