Launch of the book Y a lo mejor contarlo
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Format: In-person
Location: Teatro MAMM
Free admission with prior registration
Registration open
Presentation of the first fiction book by Spanish author Maria Acaso. The event will address not only the plot of the text but also the three basic concepts upon which Veronica, the book’s protagonist, makes a fundamental turn in her life: feminisms, relational anarchy, and erotic self-knowledge.
In this way, the gathering will become a collective and open proposal to debate other ways of approaching relationships beyond family, partner, or friendship, turning all these concepts upside down to become conscious of what affective structures we wish to develop in our lives.
About Y A LO MEJOR CONTARLO
Veronica is a woman who has neglected her eros and carries an invisible depression, but she has not resigned herself to her life following the predetermined course of our heteropatriarchal society. Thus, she leads us along her path of recovering the lost eros and, with it, the recovery of freedom, pleasure, and a transgressive sexuality.
Guided by the readings of different feminist theorists, from Virginie Despentes to Betty Friedan, from Sara Ahmed to Brigitte Vasallo, Veronica narrates her experiences, which include hiring sex work, the wonders of joyful menopause, and the therapeutic benefits of MDMA consumption, so that we accompany her to a life scenario radically different from the one she started with.
With a poetic prose situated within what the author calls “academic autofiction,” Y a lo mejor contarlo aims to demonstrate that we can live differently from the way we believe we are obligated to. To do so, we not only have to dare to innovate, but it is also essential to tell about it in order to serve as an example for all those who think it is impossible to live any other way.
About Maria Acaso
Maria Acaso has been writing since 2006, the year she published her first book, El lenguaje visual. Since then, her writing has moved toward the fields of art and education, where she has published extensively and contributed to the academic development of that field of study. In 2018, her interests evolved toward the field of affective relationships, as she wondered whether it is possible for us to relate in ways different from those proposed by the conventional monogamous system. Y a lo mejor contarlo is the result of the first stage of this research in which the author explores not only whether other ways of loving are possible, but also whether it is possible to tell about it in another way.