Certezas e incertidumbres en mi trabajo en una Casa de Acogida para Mujeres víctimas de la violencia masculina

I relate my experience of twenty years working in the local administration, in programmes for women and in a refuge for abused women. I highlight the symbolic revolution that the relationship with feminists of difference has brought about in me, leading meto leave institutional politics. Setting out from this experience, I propose, inorder to help the women that suffer violence, the creation of “live” services managed from the politics of desire: women who want to work with women,who love what they do, in a sharing out of skills that takes into account personal capacities and talents, co-ordinated from the relationship of autho-rity, respect, solidarity and disparity. That what is done is out of the dignityand respect for what one is, in the attentive listening to what women desire.A Woman’s House that is an alive place, because I desire to work loving what I do, in respect, dignity for what I am, free of the politically correct, of the staleness of the patriarchy, in the learning and practice of disparity, of difference, because for me, equality is madness in its unreachability.