Elisa Badal

Today i'm going to talk about something that makes me very angry: the patriarchy in the Faculty of Arts. The last year, with the feminist movement we made a diagnostic about all the sexism aspects that are present in our faculty. When we were on strike, we talked about our experiences studying in this place, and how de patriarchy affected in them. One of the basics things in wich we saw the sexism in the faculty, was that on the first floor there's only a men's bathroom, and if you wanted to go to a gilr's bathroom you had to go up to the fourth floor. Also, in a more upset way, many of us talked about the misogenics practices from some of our teachers. For example, on the music careers, teachers just to say to their female students some things like "You compose like a woman", "try to not  move so much when you lead a chorus because you are very pretty and your classmates can be distracted" I think this way to relating to us as a society is not t

This is a photograph taken by a friend  whom I appreciate a lot, her name is Colomba. Who appear in the photograph are me with three very close friends, with which we are also partners in our artistic work. In that moment, we were in the forest, filming a video in the middle of the night, with the light of the moon. The photograph was taken in January of this year, one of the days we were in Cartagena. I really like that photography because those who appear there are very special people for me, with whom I have grown in different areas, like in the creative field and in my formation as a person. That image expresses the love that we have among us as a team, and it reminds me of the beautiful and meaningful experience of filming that video on that trip.

Today I want to talk to you about mental health in the Arts Faculty. Within the careers of the Faculty of Arts many of the students suffer from stress, anxiety and depression. This is due to the high level of demand of the courses taught there, to the bad practices of some teachers, and to the way in which the educational system is structured in general. The level of requirement of the subjects is so high that you must devote most of your time to study, even sacrificing your hours of rest. This creates great frustration because you realize that your life happens to be studying and there is not even enough time to develop your discipline outside of the university. This is compounded by the fact that, despite dedicating almost 100% of their lives to study, the grades are still low, and some teachers, instead of being a contribution to the learning process, harass the students, telling them that they don't have the skills needed for the career, urging them to rethink their studies