GEPE - COLLABORATIVE STORIES

GEPE collaborative stories

The following stories were created by students of partner schools within the Erasmus + project GENDER EQUALITY FROM PRINCIPLES TO EMPOWERMENT during 2nd LTT in Djakovo- Croatia 22nd—27th April 2018 to explore to what extent have equal rights for women been implemented in modern civilization in the history of European countries

COLLABORATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 6 –working hours + 2 hours making exhibition The students researched their national history before the mobility and decided on persons to be presented during the workshop. it is supposed to be one important women in the field of art, music, literature, politics, science who experienced the gender inequality during their lifetime DAY 1 TASK 1 – 30 min The students are placed in their national groups. There are 8 groups of 4 students.

They are given different colored worksheets They have to answer the questions, each student takes one worksheet. The questions refer to the person they want to present, they can consult each other while answering the questions.

Before doing the task, the students are listening to music Sheherezade by R. Korsakov (3,5min) to evoke some of their feelings. Some students will probably recognize the theme and associate the character and with the topic of the project – everlasting problem of gender inequality - WRITE THE NAME OF THE PERSON YOU CHOSE ON THE TOP OF EACH WORKSHIT 1.

- Where is the prson ? (indoors/outdoors/town/countryside) - How old is the person?

- What does the person look like?

2.

- What is the wather like?

- What season is it and part of the day?

- What historical period does the scene take place? (approximately) 3.

- What is the person doing?

- How does the person feel?

- What can The person hear and see?

4.

- Who are the persons are the people around?

- Where do they come from? (geografically, some segment of society, - What is the relationship between the person you chose and(some of) the people around?( personal , subordinate, superior, official, etc)

They are given four sets of questions on papers of different colors . Each student answers questions having in mind person he chose during preparation period before the mobility.

FRANCE 1 2 3 4

POLAND 1 2 3

SPAIN 1 2 3 4

ITALY 1 2 3 4

CROATIA1 1 2 3 4

CROATIA2 1 2 3 4

CROATTIA3 1

CROATIA4 1 2 3 4

3 4

TASK 2 – 90 min MIXED GROUP FORMATION – the groups are formed according to colour of papers ensuring that 6 group contains 2 Croatian and 2 foreign student from , 2 groups are formed of 3 students because Polish team consists of three students and one of Croatian teams as well 1 CROATIA1 FRANCE POLAND CROATIA2

2 FRANCE CROATIA1 ITALY CROATIA3

3 CROATIA3 POLAND CROATIA2 ITALY

4 POLAND CROATIA2 CROATIA4 SPAIN

5

6 ITALY CROATIA4 FRANCE CROATIA1

7 SPAIN ITALY CROATIA3 CROATIA4

8 CROATIA4 SPAIN CROATIA3

CROATIA3 SPAIN FRANCE

The students continue working in new groups which are formed according to colors of the worksheets. All students having the same colour of worksheet go together. There are 8 groups of 4 students again. Each group consists of 2 guests different nationality and 2 Croatian students. They got a new task

NOW TO THE STORIES ENJOY

A GREAT HIDDEN DJ

Authors: Marina Milošević, Marina Rodríguez, Ivona Aščić, Jeannela Catolica i sa 17 years old girl. She has brown, usually tied hair and light tan and also, she is short. She is very patient and silent, she doesn't have so many friends, but she is very friendly. Because of her very soft character she isn't accepted in community. She lives with her parents and a 21 years old brother, Emile who is totally opposite of Jeanne. He is handsome and accepted and wanted in community. One reason for that is also that he is a very good DJ in their town. Jeanne wants to be a DJ as well but he is more worth in their parents’ eyes than Jeanne.

Anyway, Jeanne loves her brother, but he doesn't care about her as much as she cares about him. She looks at her brother like role model because she sees herself like female DJ. Jeanne is angry and disappointed because no one supports her and no one wants to agree with her. She doesn't understand what is the problem. She wants to „revenge“ by using her brother's DJ's equipment.

One day while her brother was on some tournament and her parents somewhere out of home, she took his DJ's equipment. Her parents found her when she was using that. They were so angry because that equipment is too expensive to be used by 17 years old girl who „doesn't know“ anything about DJing, so they put her in punishment.

While she was in punishment she realized that is actually a good thing due to she was always at home. She started to use her brother's equipment when their parents weren't at home (and her brother who was on tournament) for making DJ's mix. She knew when her parents will arrive, so she was always on time to clean up all of traces before they came home. By that way she was able to make a new mix, but she forgot to put it on her USB. Suddenly her brother appeared from his tournament. As usual he started to use his equipment and noticed some savings. He got so angry because he knew who was that. However, he relaxed himself and tried to listen it. That mix was so good and he came up with idea to use it for his tournaments without Jeanne's permission. He wanted to use it like his work, so he saved it on his USB. Jeanne was expecting her brother so angry, but he exited his room totally relaxed. She thought that he didn't find anything, so when she found a chance to enter the Emile's room she put it on her USB

After two weeks her brother was on TV with his most popular mix, but that mix was actually Jeanne's. She was angry at first because she thought he didn't find it. She was thinking and realized that she was happy for her brother because she thought that her mix is more worth with him than with her.

After that she started making new mixes when nobody was at home in order to be used by Emile. They did a cooperative work without any conversation, like in secret, hidden from each other. Since then Emile became more popular. He jumped to the top list of DJ's in their country.

Their brotherhood got more connected, they started to communicate more. Emile began to feel very bad because he noticed that he is sponging his sister off, but at the same time he didn't want to stop using his sister's mixes because his popularity would fall down so badly.

Jeanne feels just as it was said – sponged off. She actually was happy for her brother, but in the other hand she was sad because she gave everything and got back anything.

Few days later Emile finally decide to talk to his sister face to face. They said each other how they felt whole time after Jeanne's first mix. Emile was so sad about what he did to Jeanne so he apologized for everything and she tried to understand him. What he had done was horrible but she loved him so much so at the end she accepted his apologized.

Their relationship became better because they were honest to each other. After that talk they came up with idea to continue working as a team. Emile kept using the mixes that usually were Jeanne's, but this time everyone knows that is Jeanne's work.

Her life changed a lot in a positive way. She did what she loves- DJing. She was hanging out with her brother and his friends, that's why she met new people and made friends. Also her parents changed their minds and changed their acting to her.

RIGHTS

Alessia Polidoro, Leona Čović, Konrad Jedynak, Jose Maria Llorente and Paula Kedačić Our characters adventures take place in Milan. The time of the adventures is the summer of 1969. In Milan our characters can smell lots of colorful flowers and see beautiful sky with a bit of clouds.

They went right behind the corner to get the famous Italian pizza.

They feel the sweet warmth of pizza in their throats as they are slowly eating it.

Right around the corner we can see one of our characters; Rita LeviMo ntalcini. She was late for their together lunch but once she got there the others were really happy. They gave her a slice of the said pizza and she enjoyed it so much that they had to order another one. Our said Rita is a really goodlooking blonde woman. She is wearing a colorful dress that fitted her very well.

Next to her was Eliza Orzeszkowa, a very famous writer from Poland. She has black hair and is as beautiful as Rita. Across them were sitting Isabella Catolica. Isabel is also beautiful just as the two ladies that we described before her. And next to her was Hedviga Dekker. A museum director from Đakovo, a little town in Croatia. She has raven black hair and piercing blue eyes. „It is unfair for women to be treated like they are garbage!“ said Eliza. „I agree! We shouldhave equal rights like men!“ said Rita next to her. „Now now ,girls, calm down we are in a restaurant after all, said Hedviga, and you should act like it.“ „Ofcourse, but doesn't it bother you? I mean to be treated like you are less than a man.“ asked Eliza. „Yes, itbothers me but wemustn't let them to get us down. You must fight for yourconvictionsandbeliefs.“ „We should make something, like perhaps a movement.“ saisaidEliza. „What do you have in mind?“ asked Rita. „We will change the world with this! And we will have to have the equal rights like men!“ saidEliza. „We could make transparents saying that we will not eat until our salary is as big as men's.“

While they were sitting and talking someone appeared suddenly. It was their friend Eliza Doolittle. She was a flowergirl from London.

They called her to their table to sit with them. They explained what were they talking about. „Do you know a guy that exploited and denied our wages? His name is John Wayne.“ asked Eliza Doolittle. „No, never heard of him.“ they said in an unison.

Then the waiter came and all 5 of them ordered coffee. The coffee arrived and suddenly, after few sips they all fainted. The doctors arrived and transfered them to the hospital. When they came to hospital they took their blood so they can establish what happened. Doctors Leona and Paula gave the doctor Jose the results of the analysis. The analysis said they had been poisoned. They established that the poison was arsen.

Doctor Jose found some fingerprints in their coffee glasses. After that he sent them to the police.

The doctors gave them aspirin and that cured them. Doctor Leona got a title of the best doctor because she found the cure for arsen. The girls woke up and they felt great. After they got out of the hospital they said that they are very grateful because the doctors saved them.

The girls went to the police station to see the test results. It came out to be the one and only JohnWayne. „Oh my God, I can't believe it! He again! He poisened us and I am furious!“ said Rita all angry and frustrated.

While Rita was talking policemen started a search for John Wayne. And they found him hidding in Eliza's flowershop. She was horrified when she heard. While they were taking him to the police station, he was yelling: „You will never have the same rights like men! Men are better than women!“ They kicked him in the head with the nightstick. He fell on the ground and they took him in peace. Hedviga spat on him.

On the trial the judge decided that he will be locked for a lifetime. The girls were thrilled. „Now we can commit ourselves to start a campaign for equal rights.“ saidIsabel. „Yeah, that will be great.“ said Eliza Orzeszkowa.

After ten years, they successed with their campaigne and now women have equal rights like men. Our girls opened a flowershop together and were very successfull.

The end!

NEW RULES

Julijana Kristić, Igor Angebrandt, Romane Misericordia, Emanuela Cecilia Carriero The first one is Mila Gojsalić, she is a cleaning lady. She is 28 years old, tall, skinny with red curly hair and blue eyes. She smells like tuna fish in can. She lives in Buenos Aires, with her husband, son and 3 daughters. The second one is Jagoda Truhelka, she is a teacher.She is 50 years old, small, fat, ugly but smells like a strawberry. She lives alone in her flat in Osijek. The third one is Olympe de Gouges, she was politican. She is 25 years old, tall with brown curly hair and green eyes. She lives in Kairo with her 5kids. Sheis single mother.

One sunny day in 2018, Mila decided to travel to Sahara. The same day Jagoda decided also to travel to Sahara. When they arrived to Sahara, they got lost there. Mila walked around Sahara to find water because she was thirsty. Jagoda has no food so she walked around to find some. In between she found Mila, because she is super tall. Jagoda has water and Mila has some food.Theywent 23 days by the coast till they came to Kairo. They found a woman called Olympe on the street, crying with a sign: „I want my rights“.

The two girls were curious about this sad woman, so they came to her and asked: „ Do you need some help?“ She looked at them and said: „ Yes, you must help me, because we are all women, so my rights are yours“ „So let's fight for our rights together !“ They went to her house, took a shower, ate, drank and changed theclothes. One hour later, they went to the parlament and fought with men. Then they changed the rules : now, women can

vote and be respected.The same day at night they went to the disco to party and ordered Dua Lipas song New Rules. They got drunk. The next morning thousands of women that also went in the disco were in front of Olympe's house. They were happy because they got their rights.

These three girls get super rich, so they buy a villa and they get 9 waiters. They live their life like goddess, till one day when Desdemona came.Desdemona was a geek and weird women. She has straigh tblack hair with blue eyes. She is beautiful. Desdemona was looking for her husband.

She found him int heOlympe's house. She coundn't believe that her husband was a waiter so she come to see is that truth. Desdemona was tired so she lay down and her husband massaged her back. While he was massaging her he started coming closer to her neckand he wanted to strangle her. But at that moment, Olympe came in the room and saw him strangle Desdemona.

She became angry and she punched him to his face. „ What are you doing ?! Let her go ! Get out of my house and never come back !

Desdemona stayed to live with Mila, Olympe and Jagoda. They talked a lot about it, and they came to the idea that they spread their rights to the whole world. They wanted that it becames normal for whole world that their husbands respect them.

Just a few days later, they decided to travelal around the world and teach men to love women.

In every place they came, they took the time to explain andc onvince every person they met on the road. They didn't leave a country before equality settled.

In every country where they came, they changed men's mind: since that moment, men were here for women to support them in every situation. Gender equality was born !

50 years later, their children did the same job and made sure that Gender equality will continue.

QUEEN YELENA

Emanuela Carriero, Lara Juras, Lucija Weh, Marko Brekalo, Kery Eyheramendy-Ly

There wasn't silence in my castle. My three years old daughter Maja was crying all the time. My old mama was sitting in the living room every hour of the day watching some stupid programs on the TV at max volume. Like it wasn't enough, my husband was mowing the lawn with that noisy thing. „I hope the noise doesn't bother you too much. Have a sit, please.“ my voice thumped in the almost empty room that was my beloved bedroom.

My host sat on the bed covered by a turquoise blanket and remained silent. „Do you want a cup of tea, something like that?“ stammered I, embarrassed.

He kept staring at me, but shacked his head. „Okay, then.“ I closed the door. Now Maja's moans where not so annoying. I sat next to him, but I wasn't relaxed at all. „So, why do you want to hear the story of Queen Yelena?“ I said.

I finally heard his voice, deep and loud: „I want to write a book about her, but this story seems so amazing that I don't want to find it on Internet or something like that. I want to hear it from someone who lived this in first person.“ My hands were shaking: „Should I just start? It's a very long story.“ „I'm all ears.“ He replied, staring into my eyes.

Finally, I started.

The city of Zadar, Croatia, had a king: Mihajlo. He died, because of a rare illness.

His wife remained alone, and had to take over the throne.

Now she was the Queen, the first Queen in the history of Croatia.

But people didn't accept her. She was the perfect Queen in all, but the problem was one: she was a woman. „A woman could never take over the throne.“ said everyone, from politics to farmers.

So, they organized a riot, attacking the royal palace and trying to break the wooden doors.

The Queen was forced by her counselor to escape from the palace because her own people banished her from her Country, and she found refuge in The Land of Nowhere.

This unique story soon spread in all over the world, and everyone knew about the Queen Yelena and her escape.

Even the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci found out about this fact, and decided to leave from New York, where she lived, to search the Queen.

Finally, she found her in Zagreb with the help of Dora Pejačević, the first female composer, who supported the Queen so much that she wrote a song for her.

At first the Queen was suspicious, but then she decided to meet with them, and they talked and talked for hours.

They were trying to discover the motivation of the riot that the people of Zadar organized months before.

At the end, they concluded that the only reason was that she was a female Queen.

Oriana was so shocked that she called one of the most famous female rights fighter Pierre Feldes.

When he arrived in The Land of Nowhere, some days later, he was immediately conduced to the royal secret palace. The first moment that she saw her, Pierre fell desperately in love with the Queen Yelena, and so she did with him.

They decided to not care anymore about the throne to live in peace and in love.

They got married, and soon arrived the first daughter: Helen.

She always had a feisty temper when she was a child. She had long curly blonde hair and big blue eyes, she was considered the most beautiful girl in the world.

I was her nanny, so I was there when everything happened. In her childhood she learned really well how to fight.

She grew up in her parent's palace, and one day, when she was 20 years old, accidentally, she read a letter, found in a drawer in her bedroom, written by her mother years ago, when she wasn't even born, talking about what happened to her when she became Queen.

She got really angry, and she decided that she couldn't do nothing.

So, she went to Sparta to train her own army to raid Zadar.

After 5 years of training, she had an army of 20.000 warriors, so she decided to finally attack Zadar.

She entered in the city and burned it without mercy, like she was burning inside because of her anger.

But this wasn't enough for her: she wanted a real revenge.

While all the houses where burning in the city, she managed to push through the royal defenses and walked into the King's palace.

She found him in his bedroom, shaking because of the fear he was feeling, and she decided to let him say his last words. „Forgive me.“ he said.

But she slit his throat and the King fell on the ground, dead.

Now, she had her own revenge.

She called her mother Yelena and her father Pierre to the city.

Yelena was the Queen again, and no one rioted against her, so she peacefully ruled the city, after rebuilding everything that Helen burned. „So, this is the end. Did you like it?“ I said.

He kept staring at me, and smiled: „Yes, I did. Even if I already knew it. I just wanted to hear it from another perspective.“ „What? You already knew it? Why?“ I was shocked. „Because I am the brother of Helen.“

Space MISSion

Regards from moon.

Eliza Orzeszkowa, CarlosGalindo, Bruna Šimić, Lorena Janković, Giulia Ortense, Paweł Gołofit, Ana Tadić.

The story that I'm going to tell you took place 154 years ago, in a little town near Chicago, United States.

Marija was going to meet Isabel la Catolica in a boutique and they were fighting because they had different thoughts about women's positions. Isabel thought that women have to stay at home and take care about children while Marija thought that women need education and don´t have to stay at home. They were always dissagreing about everything connected with that.

After weeks and weeks of argument and fighting, Isabel accepted to study just one girl, but with one condition, she had to ask the queen everything she wants to do. Her name: Samantha Cristoforetti. When she started studying she was 27 years old, she was very intelligent, imaginative and always looking to the sky; she was really amazed with our universe. But everybody looked and judged her just because she was a woman. You know, sometimes people can be real judgers with no reason at all. During her time at school, she read lots of books and she learnt about science, geometry, astronomy… But there was a book that inspired her more than the rest, she read 1001 nights and when she turned the last page, Scheherezade became her heroine.

After 10 years of studying she had become one of the best scientist in the world. NASA called her because they needed her to go to the moon, so she told that to a group of students who accepted to go with her because there was a good condition to build a city. They were imagining the city with about one thousand people, something like a big village but with all the possibilities of the town. The town would have a big theatre, a cinema, the doctor's, some food and clothes shops and so on. Nothing special, but enough for those people.

Then they were preparing for the trip, she met me and told me about the plan of our journey.

She wanted me to join them to design the city and I wanted to join, because I killed a queen of Great Britain, so the solution for all my problems was in front of my eyes. At that moment, I started drawing and I didn't sleep until it was finished.

Everything was ready for the trip, but when they were going to the ship, the guards of the queen stopped Samantha and her people and asked: „Where are you going, Samantha!?“ When Samantha saw them two she got scared and she tried to run; but it was too late – two guards

were holding her. They hit her in her head and the next thing she saw were the walls of a little cell in jail.

When I heard that news, I decided to go to the jail to rescue Samantha, so I took my best horse and I started galloping. When I arrived to the prison, I heard a woman screaming from the last floor of the tower. I wanted to save her so badly. I went there, fought against some guards, and there I saw her, chained and around her, lots of blood everywhere. She said: „Please, help me!“ I don't know how I did it, but I broke the chain and we ran away. We went to the ship and called her team. We set off as fast as possible and we finally got it, we went to the moon. We built the city just like we wanted it to be. After some time passed, we fell in love, we got married and we were happy forever.

Tea Party

Written by: Beatriz Mendes, KubaZawadzki, Barbara Tubanović, Vanessa Vuković i GabrijelaMiković ''Can you tell me what should I do again?''

My older brother, Ivan, looks at me confused, ''Whatever woman's job is, clean, cook, I don’t know.’’ ‘’I’ll start cleaning the kitchen, what do you want to eat?’’ I turn around to find my brother, who’s a bit taller than me, he is wearing his usual band t-shirt, and blue jeans. He stares at me for a while before answering, ‘’Spaghetti and meat loaf.’’

I nod before heading towards the kitchen to clean and cook.

Dinner passed and I am getting ready for bed. Ivan comes into my room, ‘’Dad said you have to mow the lawn tomorrow morning. I will be at soccer practice all morning,’’ smiling I lay on my bed, ‘’Okay, good night.’’ I finish the sentence before drifting off to sleep.

I open my eyes slowly before noticing that I am no longer in my bedroom. I look around to find old houses and people dressed in clothes I saw in history textbooks. As if I time travelled to old times.

Looking at myself I notice that I too am wearing clothes like them. I began walking towards a big building located on my left, it was painted in white color, which began turning yellow in some parts, a big garden was in front of me with a wonderful fountain, flowers were growing all around. It was magnificent. As if it was painted.

I notice that every house around is built modestly, the one in front of me was the biggest and richest. The door of the house started opening, and I found myself in front of them, I began walking inside. The house inside was quite beautiful; chandelier was hanging in the lobby and everything around gold and white.

The stairs were big and they were leading towards two directions. I climb upstairs and enter a room: it was also in gold and white, there was another chandelier and under it was a piano,

around it were pictures of some men. There was a fireplace, in front of it were two sofas and a table with flowers on it.

After I close the door, I see light coming out of the last room in the corridor. I peek to see a woman brushing her hair and softly singing. She was quite beautiful, her short hair and dimples were showing off, she was wearing a white dress fancier than mine. She notices me, ‘’Come on in, don’t be shy,’’ I don’t know why, but I opened the door and I entered the room. ‘’You must be Mia, Anna told me you were coming,’’ I furrow my eyebrows, ‘’Who’s Anna?’’ The woman smiles before replying, ‘’A friend, you’ll meet her soon.’’ ‘’Sit,’’ she gestures me to a couch not far from her bed. I sit next to her, ‘’I know who you are, I know your problem,’’ She says in a cold voice which resulted in me getting goose bumps. ‘’What?’’ my voice cracks.

She raises an eyebrow, ‘’You’re quite special Mia.’’ I felt threatened, I didn’t know what to do or say. She seems creepy. I started to get up, ‘’Who are you? Where am I?’’ I feel shaken, this is an unfamiliar place, who knows what can happen to me? ‘’Everything will be fine, don’t worry,’’ she smiles at me making me feel uncomfortable, ‘’Everything is fine?’’

She began laughing, she laughed for a while before standing up, ‘’Oh sweetheart, you have so much to learn.’’

I look at her confused, ‘’It’s fine Mia, sit.’’ I jump startled by voice behind me, I turned to find a woman staring right back at me, ‘’I’m Anna, Anna Karenina, this is Carolina.’’ She gestures to the woman who welcomed me.

Anna was a tall woman dressed in red dress with a hat on her long brown hair which was tied in a bun. She wore little bit make up yet she looked beautiful. ‘’Would you like some tea?’’ Carolina offered with another creepy smile, ‘’No thank you.’’

We all sit in silence; I look at them uncomfortable whilst they’re smiling at me. Suddenly two men walk in with a dresser, ‘’Ah! There you are! Don’t worry, we’ll get you properly dressed,’’ I don’t know how or why, but all of a sudden I was dressed like them, in a long uncomfortable white dress.

Anna smiles at me, ‘’Drink,’’ I gulp, and before taking a sip I look at the two, ‘’is it poisoned?’’ they both look at each other and smile, ‘’Just drink hone.’’

I take a sip slowly with my eyes never leaving two women sitting in front of me, ‘’Wonderful,’’ Carolina chirps.

The door opens and three ladies walk in, ‘’Marija, Caroline and Eliza, you’re here!’’ Anna smiles at them before they all start hugging and kissing. I sit there in silence watching the five women excite about something.

Marija was a chubbier woman, short and looked scary. She had short black hair and a big red dress fancy like others, she was carrying umbrella, as if she always had it, she wore a big hat which covered half of her head.

Caroline was a woman of pale skin, red hair with brown roots, she obviously dyed it often, she seemed more modern than the rest, she seemed of 21st century. She wore a dress like others, except she wasn’t as classy as others, she seemed more relaxed.

Eliza was quite older than the rest of us, she ad grey hair and straight face, she held her posture straight and uptight. She seemed less imitating than the others, but she still frightened me.

They sit in front of me. I felt claustrophobic. ‘’Mia, you have a lot to learn about feminism, and women’s rights,’’ Anna start but I interrupt her, ‘’Feminism? I heard that, fortunately my brother and father told me to ignore those people,’’ their smiles fade.

Marija looks at me, ‘’Feminism is about women empowerment, it is about us finally gaining our rights and acknowledgement in the world. Women are underrated, we can do so much if we try.

Men force their misogyny on us. We have to fight for our other sisters! If we continue to let men dictate or way of life, we will never know what great things we can do.’’

Carolina nods, ‘’You can cook, clean, but a man can do that for himself, we have to teach our sons how to treat women, to realize that every woman is a human being and not an object.

Men need to realize that our world can be so much is women get to rule.’’

Eliza continues, ‘’You’re here, because you are going to be the next great feminist in the world.

You will join the history and become a role model for so many young girls. You have to work.’’

Anna and Caroline smile at the three women. ‘’C’mon sweetheart, you can do everything, just wake up.’’

I look at Anna confused, ‘’What?’’ I wonder.

They continue to say wake up; I stand up quickly spilling the tea on myself.

I wake up fast to find myself in my bed, back in reality. I notice that I have peed on myself, probably when I ‘’spilled’’ my tea.

The next morning, I told my father I have to clean my room. I spent all day researching about misogyny and feminism. I have learned so much.

You see, I have figured out that feminism has been perceived in the world as something horrible and bitter. Feminism is so much more and much better. Some people are too blind to see it.

10 Years Later A lot of things have changed, I grew as a person and a woman. Changed my point of view of the world, became a stronger and more powerful person. Plus, the world grew and changed, that’s the most important thing.

There are many more things that need to be changed, but it’ll happen. As one of the greatest feminists in the world I can surely tell you that in couple of years’ women will rule the world, everything will be better and much more magnificent.

I wish I get to say thank you to Caroline, Anna, Carolina, Marija, Eliza for showing me what I can do. I wish that every girl in this world does not need to be shown what she can do, she needs to know what she can do.

The cabin in mountains

Iva Zorić, David Milanović, Luka Peran, Lucrezia Di Marino It was a windy day in Zurich. The pretty girl Alda Merini was writing a poem about her depression and mental storms. She was 23 years old and was married with Ettore Carniti, but their love story was quite like a rose fading. Alda suspected that her husband was cheating on her because he was acting strange. He would never kiss or hug her, he was never at home. She was often anxious, nervous, so she was becoming really skinny. She had long, black hair and a magnificent smile, but she could never show it.

He came back home while she was writing. Alda wasn't glad to see him. None of them showed love to each other. They seemed very distant, even though they were in the same room. Ettore took the piece of paper that she was holding and started to read the poem. He suddenly got really nervous when he read all those quotes about depression and her mental illness, so they started arguing and she got so mad at him that she left the house for a few hours to have a long walk.

When she came back home, something unexpected happened: she caught her husband cheating on her with another girl. Her name was Diva. However, her husband didn't notice Alda, because she was hiding behind the door.

The day after, Alda was having a walk when she recognized the woman who was with her husband yesterday, so she stopped her. Diva was quite confused at first, because she didn't know who she was. So Alda introduced herself and told her that she was Ettore's husband. She was quite shocked, because she didn't know that Ettore was married. After a deep conversation, they found the only solution: kill him. After some time, they noticed two other girls, called Teuta and Slava, having a walk with Ettore. They came across the husband and the two pretty girls and started arguing. They were all mad at Ettore, because the two girls didn't know this situation either. So they all agreed with plannig to kill him.

The days became rougher: Alda and Ettore argued all the time and every day. A few days after that terrible meeting with the lovers, Alda went outside and met all her husband's lovers again.

They started to think about how to kill him. Teuta was a professional serial killer, so she firstly

suggested Diva to go with Ettore in a cabin through the mountains. The other girl, called Slava, was a good painter, so she was really excited about this idea. She wanted to capture the murder scene in a painting, so that she could gain a lot of money with it. She really needed much money to attend a school, as she was really poor, mute and deaf.

A few days later Diva met Ettore and persuaded him to go with her in the cabin. He was really attracted by her, as she was his favourite lover, so he agreed with her without thinking about it twice.

After a long walk, they were really tired and sweaty, so they decided to drink some wine until Ettore started to feel slightly drunk. After that, they went in their cabin. It was a really small house made of wood. They went into it and she started to tide him onto the bed for a better pleasure. BOOM !! A spider catching a fly. Diva yelled: „girls, let's kill him!“.

Teuta, Slava and Alda came into the cabin. At this point, Teuta stabbed him several times in his chest. The other girls came over to the body and everyone wrote her own name on his stomach with a knife. Now it's time for Slava: she could finally paint the scene.

She happily prepared her paintbrush and started painting all the happening. That painting was so special, because it could capture all the emotions into it: sadness, excitement, cruelty…

The painting was done, and she was really satisfied. She tried to sell it, but nobody wanted it, as people found it too explicit and inappropriate. Another reason why she couldn't sell it, that's because she was a girl, so she couldn't be an artist. Maybe just an underrated one.

A few weeks later, all girls around the town decided to have a gathering to fight for having the same rights as men.

They became really successful and famous, and Slava's picture became the symbol of the group.

The revolution

By: Josipa Sabo, Daniela Tokalić, Julianne Pacheco, Karlo Mesić This story takes place in the 1930's in the time of communism, sexism, white supremacy and when Hitler was ruling Europe. It all started in Croatia, when Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, a well -known writer, was forced to marry a man she didn't want to marry and she decided to flee to Italy, where she was going to start from a scratch. After a couple of weeks of her presentation she started getting more and more attention over Europe. She decided to create a secret community for women’s rights. To send the message to as many women as possible, she went to a church, where luckily, at the time were only women. Among them was Isabela, a young Spanish woman who was forced to flee from home because of her sexual orientation. While I.B.M. was holding the conventions „Ljelje“ (Croatian women dressed in traditional clothing were forced to leave their country because they tried to fight for the women’s rights and did things that weren’t allowed to do by the law at that time).They all met in Italy in Pescara, Rome was just too dangerous for them. Firstly they had to make a plan for their movement and then they could share it with public. They were about to discuss the problem of women rights. They decided to support each other. I.B.M created a community to fight for women rights and they were all about to support her. Ivana Brlić Mažuranić invited Elisabeth Bennet to help her support women who are in any kind of problem. Elisabeth is really strong woman. She won the fight for her liberty. She married the man she likes, not the one they told her that she should marry. She was really important for this community because she was supporting those women, had a motivational speech etc. Elisabeth and her husband came in Pescara so they could be a real example that it's not just a dream for women to live free. Those strong women met again in this small town's church because it was the safest place in town. I.B.M started a conversation, she said that she would try to do her best to make women feel free in every single country in the world. Women were listening carefully.

All of them agreed that things should change, but they were afraid that the police would arrest them because they were women. Elisabeth tried to convince all of them that it has to work.

They agreed that even if it is dangerous they have to start the revolution. They went against the law. By the law women weren't good enough to do whatever they want and they had to listen

to their brothers, fathers and husbands. Isabela realized that she is safe with them. She was really happy because she wouldn't have to worry about her family. Those women were now her new family. They put their hands in action. They wrote a letter to a government. In that letter they said: ''Dear Italian Government, we're anonymous community of women all around the world. We are too sick and tired of being left out of everything. We're women. We're human beings. We will be mothers. We need love, we need respect and we need you. We think it would be great if you help us. Women are powerful enough to be individual human beings, not just a shadow of their men. We don't want to marry someone just because someone else told us that we must to. We don't want a relationship because someone has a lots of money. We want love. We are going to fight for our rights. You can help us or you can just find us and decide to arrest us. But, there is too many women around the world who will be looking for us. We don't need money, we don't need any material things. We only need love, respect and our rights. We will be really thankful if you help us.''

The government was surprised, but luckily they decided to help those women. They recognized that the women and their lives are so important for the whole word. So they decided to change the law. Italy decided to be the first country which support women rights. Few years after every other country decided to follow their example.

Women are smart, powerful, important to the world and „men view us in the same way as they view men“ but why aren't we allowed to wear whatever we want because there are high chances that we will get raped? Why are rape victims considered guilty for the wrong doing of a man who took advantage of the victim? Why are people sleeping on the countries with a high rate of women abuse? Why are women paid 79 cents but a man earns a dollar? Why is it okay for a woman to care for the kids, clean, cook and do things such as being in a garden all day or even go to a normal 9 to 7 job all in one day but a man goes only to his job and doesn't do anything at home but he is considered the hard working one?

All these questions are claimed to be answered but no one has ever given us a real answer because it doesn't exist. I repeat it doesn't exist so treat us well because we are worth it.

Female is future. Future is female.

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