This lecture explores information violence—its definition and significance for tackling other forms of violence, especially those affecting women, girls, and marginalized groups. Discussion addresses how information gaps, distortion, fragmentation, or inaccessibility obstruct awareness of rights, access to support networks, and informed decision-making. Through an accessible, dialogical approach, participants examine libraries, reading, literature, and cultural and information spaces as sites for community learning, mediation, and social protection. A practical workshop concludes the session, identifying instances of violence within literary texts and demonstrating literature's capacity to expose, name, and confront often-silenced everyday violences. Bruna Lessa, professor at the Institute of Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, coordinator of the LabRecrie/UFBA Research Group, and postdoctoral researcher in Documentation and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (UC3M-Spain), leads the event. Free registration with limited places opens 21 July at 10h. Accessibility: requests for accommodations such as Libras interpretation should be submitted by email no later than seven days before the activity begins. An evaluation questionnaire and certificate will be sent within two weeks of completion. Duration: 2 hours
