From La Utópica, a collective network project for social emancipation in the Balearic Islands, was held on December 15, 2024, in Sineu (Mallorca), a space for collective reflection on care as an antidote to address the various crises (ecological, economic, political, social) that we face today. Care, and especially its contemplation as something collective, is … Read more
The fourth RESCUPAN Workshop will take place on January 09th and 10th, 2025. This time it will be held at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), in the Department of Philosophy and Social Work, Sociology Area. We will have a round table on “The experience of social entities that have the cure as the … Read more
This November several meetings will be held at the University of the Balearic Islands that emphasize gender relations and human rights, among which we highlight two. On the one hand, between November 4 and 17, six women human rights defenders from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina and Spain are expected to stay in Mallorca, as … Read more
On October 8 and 10, Fem Infància has held in Es Mercadal (Menorca) a workshop that has become a reflective space to think about care and social bonds from a critical and feminist perspective, from the idea of “precarious life” by Judith Butler. The workshop opened on October 8 with a talk around the ideas … Read more
The arrival of summer in the Balearic Islands is accompanied by a massive arrival of tourists who need services; an arrival that, in 2024, rubs the 4 million people, if we count only until the month of May. Many people work in these services, among them the floor maids, known as Kellys, dedicated to the … Read more
On April 21 took place a staging of a fiction that summarizes so many daily stories of dreams, hopes, life, dignity and livelihood. It is in this space in which different life stories of migrant women who have arrived in the Balearic Islands are intertwined that the theatrical piece “23 Kg. Stories of women who … Read more
On March 31, a new report was published that collects the study on residential exclusion and gender violence in the Balearic Islands, carried out by the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands of the University of the Balearic Islands (OSIB-UIB) and the Institute for Social Reinsertion Foundation (IRAS). This research, which has been funded by … Read more
On January 13 of this year 2024 was held the reactivation of the antipatriarchal Assembly of Palma, after almost five years of stoppage, necessary, from their point of view, for a reflection towards feminist movements on the island of Mallorca. The celebration took place at the Ateneo Popular Sano Fonera, a self-managed space in the … Read more
On February 15 and 16 the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), through the University and Business Foundation (FUEIB), hosted a seminar aimed especially at activists and professionals in the social sector, although the general public was invited to participate. The seminar was a space to rethink, from a transfeminist perspective, the professional and/or activist … Read more
The Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB) of the University of the Balearic Islands has published the study “Housing and residential exclusion in the Balearic Islands”. The publication addresses the current situation of access to housing in the Balearic Islands, focusing on residential exclusion. The study shows that housing has become the main determining … Read more