Goteo #289: Summer nights, days of reading 📚

🌞 Welcome summer! It's the perfect time to enjoy the sun, whether on the beach, in the mountains or from the comfort of your own home. We invite you to immerse yourself in the optimism brought by the warmth, freshness and excitement of the summer season. It is the perfect time to take up long-forgotten projects or start new, short-lived dreams that can be realised on holiday.

🫂 Regardless of how you spend your summer, we hope you find it a flow in which you enjoy every moment.

📬 In this edition of the newsletter, we would like to introduce you to three reading-related projects to accompany you in your moments of relaxation and make your summer an unforgettable experience. Let's discover them together!

Vulvas Extraordinarias

🤔 The promoters of this project asked themselves some time ago, why don't we see images of vulvas? Why don't we see them in sculptures in parks, squares, museums? Why are there no visual references of our genitals? Why is our vulva invisible?

🌟 As a result of these questions, they have collected more than 100 beautiful images full of meaning and significance, because they are the fruit of confronting us with an unknown and rejected body, with the possibility of giving light and voice to what has been silenced, hidden and denied.

📚 The result has been the creation of a collaborative book in which more than 120 women have participated, with Creative Commons license so that everyone, everyone and everyone can have access to read it. Do you want to participate in this small revolution? Find out more at goteo.cc/vulvasextraordinarias

Is the State Nonbinary?

🤩 Can you imagine an illustrated novel about environmental activism and the role the state can play?

🎯 Art is a way of bridging the gap between receiving information and taking action. In this spirit, this comic aims to bridge this gap between awareness and action, as visualisation can overcome abstraction and make effects sensible through emotions.

👉🏼 If you also think that another future is possible, you can collaborate to raise funds for the printing of the comic at goteo.cc/nonbinary

Premio de novela Antonio Jiménez Casero

👀 Extravertida editorial, an independent publishing house from Seville, is the driving force behind this project. The proposal focuses on creating the Antonio Jiménez Casero Short Novel Prize, in homage to the cultural and teaching work of Antonio Jiménez Casero (Azuaga, 1952; Seville, 2020).

✊🏽 The idea of creating a prize arose from the desire to promote and support new writers. His commitment focuses on establishing conversations with society, with new literary editions and bringing culture to those readers who have never been interested before.

🤗 Discover the interesting rewards they propose at goteo.cc/premionovela

And as if all this wasn't enough...

We invite you to participate in Creatif Academy, a free tool where you can learn the key elements and techniques to create your crowdfunding. With numerous videos, success stories and examples, we encourage you to give a new colour to your summer and start that project you've been thinking about 😉.

👉🏼 You can register and log in at: https://creatifacademy.eu/spanish-courses/

And you?

😙 Do you think crowdfunding is not sufficiently known in your community or organisation? Support us so that we can continue to spread our knowledge to initiatives that need to get funded and give their digital transition a major boost.

🙌 Choose the reward in our #FollowUsFollowTheCurrent campaign and you can apply for a 2-hour digital session to introduce crowdfunding to your community.

See you in the next newsletter! 😜

This is as far as we have got. We hope this newsletter has encouraged you to keep walking towards the society of all and for all that we are gradually approaching. See you next time!