“I often think of books as houses. They create room for us to dwell.”

Sarah Ahmed, a lesbian activist of Pakistani origin, in her book Vivir una vida feminista (Ed. Caja Negra - 2021), speaks of "feminist bricks" as the new materials through which she builds her house, her intellectual home. I found the analogy very clever: the brick is the basic element of construction. Today we are trying to compose new narratives: which bricks are we going to use and with which materials? The brick also underlines the artisanal and progressive side of construction: should the new structures that are going to support us be built outside the technological and industrial speed of current capitalism? To build a new world, we need new bricks. The materials I have chosen to use here are all natural. Some are sensitive to ambient temperature, others are perishable: the material created is constantly evolving. The new narratives, which oppose capitalist, sexist and racist oppression, are also fragile, because we try by all means to silence them, and constantly evolving because they are open to collective discussion.