This morning I woke up and read a sentence. I apologize in advance, but I'm going to use a very strong term that isn't my own, never has been, but it describes what I often read about myself every day. And then a gentleman, a Sardinian, a man, wrote, "If I wanted to have a good fuck."

Thus begins, with a "revelation" she feels is necessary to denounce the psychological violence she, as a woman, is forced to endure, a video by Labor Councilor Desirè Manca: "I don't want to pretend nothing's happening. I can't," she says. "This has always been and always will be my personal 'battle.'"

She apologizes for "the term," which "certainly doesn't apply to the role I hold. But this is to describe exactly what she experiences on a daily basis, the verbal and psychological abuse that a woman who chooses to be free, and a woman who chooses to be herself every day, even in the role she holds, must endure."

Today, some data emerged: it describes Sassari as a city where violence against women is on the rise. "One in three women seeks help, and these are the latest figures released by anti-violence centers in my city, where I was born, where I grew up, and where I currently live."

There's a lot of work to be done, according to Manca, "because we often think that violence is only physical, but the most painful, the most difficult to truly combat, is psychological and verbal violence. So I try to always be very present for all the women who need to be listened to, who need help, and today I choose to show myself that way too."

She has some marks on her breasts: "I had surgery, a small skin procedure. I chose not to cover myself, but because I've always been like this, for better or for worse, I'm choosing this time too to show exactly who I am."

Enrico Fresu

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