Interview | Rocío Saez: “The enemy is your dirty life, your 22 square meter apartment and your lack of liberties, not my chest”
He is one of the unknown faces of the general public, Rocio Saezsinger, activist and representative LGTBIQ, who made her debut in a very elusive way: being the target of repression by a police inspector who did not allow her to show her breasts at a concert in Murcia – as she has been doing since the group founded her, Chillers, what to do wrappers By Rocío Jurado or Camila-. After the jubilation of the Pride celebration, on July 6 he shares the stage with Sidonie in Alicante and its singer Mark Ross, laying himself completely naked to the amazement of the audience and even Saiz herself. For her, despite the fact that the Murcia incident was an individual initiative for which the police have apologized, it is yet another act of a ruthless cultural offensive that governments that have already agreed or signed are policed. Take control with Vox. Hard times for battles that were thought won. To Saiz – who also has an anti-cultural section on Radio 3, I have a pussy in airplane mode– We bumped into her at a swimming pool in Madrid, where she exercises naturally topless.
s. How do you live this week in the less fortunate networks? Beautiful Do they call you anything?
R. I’m exhausted, social networks are angry. They also leave behind those who are from Sidon, which has always been a group indieVery formal and agreeable. I like it because they’ve always been very masculine and now they’ve lent themselves to it.
Q: Did you and Mark Ross agree to take your clothes off?
A: Not to this point. I suggested it to the stage. So I took off my shirt, stayed in my underpants and out of the corner of my eye I saw Mark was taking it all off, cut into a ball, but with a pinky, yeah. We had to post the censored photos on the networks, but it was the only way for people to find out what happened.
Q: She’s been showing her breasts on stage for seven or eight years.
R. I started doing it because I read a book from the 1960’s, The Good Wife Handbook Gave you like 10 advice To be: Be calm, always have food ready and be careful. So I got on stage and said, “To everyone who said women should be careful.” Then I took off my shirt.
P. Then he has a feeling of protest.
A hundred percent. I do this because people keep complaining. The day I take it off and no one says anything, I’m going to stop doing it. Well I must say I have never been criticized in Catalonia, I lived there for a while. Sometimes the brown anarchy singing out “Catalonia Triumphant will come back to be rich and full”;
“As far as the breasts are concerned, I always say that Rigoberta Bandini puts on the music and I do the body.”
Q: Are boobs still as scary as Rigoberta Bandini says?
A: Yes, but she never taught them. I always say she puts on the music and I’m the body.
Q: The police apologized and are they still filing a complaint?
A: Yes, of course, the No Te Prives Society would denounce it, and I imagine the prosecution acted so swiftly. However, this does not happen with other censors from PP and Vox in which budgetary reasons have been alleged. Now a battle will begin in which we do not know how we will have to fight the powers that be, because they usually do not protect the weakest.
Q: Do you think your case is the link in a chain of increasing repression?
R. Many theater artists, creators and directors are creating a platform against censorship and soon we will release a statement. I’m another one, but the repression is growing, every day we learn about a new case: Paco Bezerra on the Canal, Buzz Lightyear in Cantabria, Virginia Woolf’s play in Mallorca. It’s a chain effect and before that there was Eugenio Merino who got censored at Arco for putting Franco in the fridge. They also know how to disguise their oversight well, they leave the contract unsigned until the last day, and then they tell you to change the budget. The general feeling is that freedom of expression is at risk.
Women were not allowed to show their breasts outside of the sexual sphere.
Q: Can you explain why showing your chest can be a symbol of feminism?
R. Because historically we weren’t allowed to show it outside of the sexual realm. Female breasts are for sexual purposes and her breasts are not.
Q: You star in a lesbian comedy, friend of my friendwhich can be seen on Filmin and got very good reviews on it guardian.
R. Yes, it’s a dam movie, we also came out on boobs there. In Spain I stayed in the ring Underground, but it goes around the world for many festivals. You can also watch a documentary at Filmin, Dance of the RevolutionAbout my work on stage.
Q: Do you think lesbians have gained more visibility in recent years?
R. The truth is no. Much less than gay men. They tend to associate us with bad moods, ugly aesthetics, and conflict. And we’re not, which is why we shot a funny comedy about those topics.
Q: Do you need to How can i love you Rocío Jurado to take off her shirt?
a. Well yes. They criticize us on the networks saying that Rocío Jurado will not endorse this, hateful. She was always by our side. I think all women should unite. These days have also given me surprises, such as the fact that people like Ana Rosa Quintana and Esperanza Aguirre have supported me. I got scared but it’s okay.
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Q: What will she tell you? haters?
R. I don’t understand why they don’t respect our way of loving, because Ryanair leaves us all stranded, no matter who you sleep with. The enemy is your filthy life, your home of 22 square meters and your detraction from freedoms and rights, not my breasts.
