In Granada in September at the beginning of the academic year, I came across young women and young men chanting slogans at each other across a busy street. The women were dressed in plastic garbage bags and wore burnt-cork moustaches. After a while, the women rolled down the footpath. I was told it was a tradition marking the beginning of university for new students. A bit heavily gendered I thought, for modern Spain. But who knows, it might be old as old ...
In Granada in September at the beginning of the academic year, I came across young women and young men chanting slogans at each other across a busy street. The women were dressed in plastic garbage bags and wore burnt-cork moustaches. After a while, the women rolled down the footpath. I was told it was a tradition marking the beginning of university for new students. A bit heavily gendered I thought, for modern Spain. But who knows, it might be old as old ...
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