Posters:
Through this poster we show the attitude that possible future victims of abusers should take. In the poster, we can see a woman with and extended arm. Yet, in her hand’s skin there is an engrave insult, which is half cleared. This symbolizes that she has just been the victim of a verbal attack and that she has opted for taking a courageous attitude against the aggressor and she didn’t let him to insult her or to disrespect her. Moreover, with her hand open and facing the aggressor, we want to emphasize that she stops and blocks him and that she doesn’t allow this to go forward. Knowing that the verbal attacks are the beginning of the gender violence, when your partner insults you, you should block him. And as soon as you block him, you unblock yourself. If you cut the things from the beginning, you prevent the problem from growing and dragging you.
With this poster we want to represent all the women who think that they are free but little by little they are becoming prisoners of the violence of gender. It is important to start seeing the signs from the first moment. It’s not worth this typical sentences, “today is not his day” or “I’m sure that he will not repeat it” or “ He still loves me”. If he is calling you all day, if he is constantly asking you where are you, who are you with, why are you? Why do not you come at home? Come now! If he controls you at all times, if he sends you messages showing that he doesn’t value you, that he does not respect you, that he does not love you, you should block him on the phone and then, you will be free. Block it from your life. Block him and unblock yourself. Don’t expect that he changes, he will not change, you will be changed.
Sometimes in the relationships there are discussions, and those discussions derive in your boyfriend shouting you, throwing you up objects, slapping you, hitting and ill-treating you. And all these things make this relationship toxic. However, everything seems solved when he gives you a ring or when he apologizes and promises you that nothing like that will happen. Yet, there is a moment when you realize that these things are repeated continuously and that the relationship can't continue going like this, but then it might be too late and you're completely tied to it. Thus, through this poster we show how the gender violence works. For us, the rope symbolizes the relationship, all the discussions and fights mean when the scissors cut the rope and knots are all the apologies and then, it seems that everything is solved. But once there are so many knots in the rope, scissors can't cut. That’s why, in this relations, woman should uproot the problem from the beginning.