Sandra Sabates She is one of the reference presenters in The sixth. The journalist has been with Wyoming in front of The intermediate in it access prime time of the chain. In addition, she has been in charge of the Women’s section since 2018, where she daily claims one of the great values of the program: feminism.
In the five years it has been in operation, the section has achieved a Meninas 2018 Awardthe first CIMA TV Award at the FesTVal de Vitoria or the Mujeres en Unión 2018 award awarded by the Actors Union.
Besides, The presenter also received the Clara Campoamor Honorable Mention awarded by the Madrid City Council in 2019 for being at the forefront of Women had to be.
Her first book: ‘Fight like a girl’
In 2018 he published Fight like a girla graphic novel (with illustrations by Ana Juan) where Sabatés delves into the past to rescue the lives of illustrious and brave women who challenged prejudices, overcame barriers and opened new paths.
Politicians, writers, teachers, poets, lawyers, inventors or artists such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosalía de Castro, María de Maeztu, María de la O Lejárraga, Las sinsombí, Clara Campoamor, Victoria Kent, Dolores Ibárruri, la Pasionaria, María Moliner, Zenobia Camprubí, Margarita Salas and Lidia Falcón are some of the protagonists of the work.
The next work: ‘Don’t tell me stories’
In 2022, Sabatés joined forces with illustrator Judit Crehuet to launch the second work of the journalist, Don’t tell me storieswhere both samples with realistic drawings of situations of helplessness for women.
The presenter of The intermediate interviewed women who deal with their ghosts while trying to rebuild their lives. They are also survivors, like the protagonists of classic stories, although the stories collected in the book are not very childish.
There remains the harshness of a reality that refuses to disappear, but also the hope that the day will come when monsters only live in fiction.
The synopsis says: “Snow White threw herself into the arms of a love that she thought was perfect and that ended up canceling her; Sleeping Beauty fell into a forced sleep and, when she woke up, she had been raped; Ariel had a part of her body torn off under the pretext of achieving purity; Little Red Riding Hood went to the San Fermín Festival and was raped by five wolves, the Pamplona Pack. “All of them are real testimonies.”
Abuse, prostitution, discrimination, submission… Fiction that is not fiction that also has an unpublished story at the end of the work that denounces the extent to which gender violence has been normalized.
A collaboration: ‘Voices that count’
Sabatés also collaborated in 2022 on the graphic novel Voices that count (an anthology) composed of nine short stories written by the journalist, Leticia Dolera, Julia Otero, Eva Amaral, Almudena Grandes or María Hesse, among others.
