The animated series Pubertad will have soon a fourth installment, its director, Ernesto Piña, announced. The program, which premiered in 2008, was the brainchild of the MsC. Mariela Castro Espín from her book What happens to us in puberty?, addressed to the public aged between childhood and adolescence. "I took some dialogues and arguments of the book and then re-elaborated them with the script writer", said on one occasion the also director of the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex). "I realized that the book was not enough; educational experiences from a single source of information are not enough, other ways are needed in the way of transmitting information. The audiovisual is necessary because these generations are very marked by the impact of the language and will find a video faster than a book. " Pubertad has been a guide that has helped to clarify some of the many questions that arise at this stage of development. In exchanges with pubertal who have enjoyed the series, Cenesex specialists have found other topics to discuss in the chapters, dialogues that have allowed assessing the impact on its target audience. After three seasons of 8 chapters each, Pubertad comes again, a work...

Photographic exhibit Fátima XXXXXY, by artist Paolo Titolo¹, was opened last Wednesday at the Fábrica de Arte Cubano cultural center. The sample, which will be moved to the International Press Center, comprises photographs of transsexual girls from different Cuban provinces. Titolo’s lenses travel around bedrooms, homes and other environments of women who gave away part of their intimacy to make up this catalogue. “This is a selection of some portraits that conveya message by transsexual people through their experiences and realities”, noted the director of the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX by its acronym in Spanish), Mariela Castro Espín. “The exhibit is in accordance with a line of research developed at CENESEX, which is about working for the social insertion of these people”, she explained. Fátima XXXXXY is an approach to trans women and the way they build their femininity according to stereotypes related to this gender; mirrors, hand-fans, long fingernails and big earrings are some of the most outstanding objects in the images. However, the women in this sample go far beyond these clichés and are presented by the side of their life partners and pets or guarded by religious, historical and cinematographic idols. “With these portraits we...