I've spent weeks thinking about what to write on the occasion of the centenary of ARGIA. I find this a great challenge, although Mikel Asurmendi, my dear editor during these five years of collaboration, has advised me to do what I do every time. Meanwhile, I celebrated my birthday and my partner has given me a knitting kit. Two long, red needles, three stripes of color wool, and a quick guide.

When I was a kid, Otilia taught me to do trikitilaris. I just managed to make a square to put on the Barbie doll, but well, that memory has stuck with me. Until I was 34 years old, however, I have not gone from nostalgia to action. Grandma no longer scores. I've relearned with a youtuber, like most hipsters.

They claim that knitting facilitates the flow of ideas and emotions. I was making a disaster point when he asked me to write about the ARGIA fabric for the centenary. Women’s valuable heritage – textile culture, science, economy and care – and a valuable meeting point for women are being lost. When women come together to weave, they talk about their pain and their joy. However, I have often heard a feminist call “the macramé” the sociocultural groups of older women dishonestly. As if sewing were not political, as if the solidarity and care networks of women were not valuable.

But as I was mentally writing this article, out of fear of the white page, I went on Twitter and two tweets aimed at me worried and bothered me. The first is that of a woman I don't know. “I’m sorry, but I don’t understand why you’re going to moderate a roundtable on the regulation of surrogate pregnancy.”

What a sin, moderate a colloquium on a complex social debate at the time! The second, by an influential feminist, on the occasion of a report on the participation of trans women in the Miss Universe competition of Pikara magazine: “I was surprised and flawed by the justification of a misogynistic and mafia space.” Well, for this tweet too, discussing a topic means legitimizing that topic!

I had just read a report from the newspaper La Marea that day: Need for nuances. It analyzes the responsibility of social networks in the polarization of public opinion. And that the media that rely on readers' support can resort to self-care for fear of losing their subscribers. In Pikara we know this danger, for example when I interviewed a porn actor, many advocates of the abolition of prostitution called to boycott our magazine. “Never trust a medium that you read with total consensus, because it will be a pamphlet disguised as journalism,” said Andrea Momoitio. It's not about contenting readers, it's about fostering critical thinking.

How many pressures, anger and crisis has this magazine born for 100 years under the Christian name of Zeruko Argia? How many adepts have you lost every time you have taken a bold or uncomfortable step? And how much?

It is surprising and disgusting that in 1919 a magazine founded by the Capuchins became a pro-feminist medium that works closely with social movements in the Basque Country.

If a reader says he is surprised and desolate, it is a sign that journalists do a good job.

I wish ARGIA to surprise us and take us for another hundred years!