Engaged for decades on the issue, the artist – real name Vanda Maria Ribeiro de Vasconcelos – does not mince her words a few days before the international day against violence against women, November 25.
“For society, a good woman is a dead woman, I say it with all the pain in the world,” she declares. “We are never heard before it is too late, and everyone is sad when we die, even though we have raised the alarm so many times before.”
“Double penalty”
“I went through that and yet, I am a white woman, I was privileged, I was known: it was hell. It was hell,” she insists, in reference to the domestic violence inflicted by her ex-husband in the late 1990s. Her voice cracks. “So I can’t imagine what women go through who are really left alone, sometimes in a very conservative, very masculinist family, really, even in greater danger than me.”
“Me, it was in 99. And I didn’t see anything move. Sorry, but I didn’t see anything move. What I saw move was the women,” she says. “It’s slow but you must not give up because despite everything, it vibrates, it moves.”
“Every vibration makes ‘the wall’ crack and one day it will collapse. Maybe I won’t see it, maybe my grandkids will see it, maybe even my kids, so it’s definitely worth it cut”.
Like feminist associations, which estimate the annual budget necessary to effectively combat violence against women at 2.6 billion euros, Lio considers the measures taken in recent years by successive governments “insufficient”.
“Feminicides are not decreasing,” she observes. And “when a woman is raped and has to confront her attacker, it’s double punishment, which makes women give up.”
“And they accept that it will be reclassified as an attack. They take the 10,000 bullets and then it’s a descent into hell, because that (this money, Editor’s note) doesn’t make up for it.”
“Demolished”
The singer, who revealed at the beginning of the year to have been raped at the age of 10 by a member of her family, confides to being “damaged” and “demolished” since she managed to put in “the right word” on what happened to him as a child: “Rape”.
She says she admires the “new generation of girls” who manage to put “words to words”. “What is it called? Where does it come from? They still leave armed at the construction level, and that saves time” and “a strength too. Naming is very important, it It’s like a rebound! It’s not everything, but it’s already a good part of the job.”
Nearly twenty years after having rebelled live on a television set against the “romanticization” of the singer of Noir Désir, Bertrand Cantat, who killed the actress Marie Trintignant in 2003, the Belgian-Portuguese singer indicates that her takes position “damaged” him professionally.
Due to a lack of “support from record companies”, she launched a fundraiser last year to finance her next album. As for Bertrand Cantat, whose group recently announced the release of a new album, Lio warns: “If there are demonstrations in front of the concert halls, I will support them. And if I am in the area, I will come. “
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