Tempo di lettura: 18 minuti “Don’t worry about your background. Whether it’s strange or ordinary, use it, build on it.” Gloria Marie Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo (Ohio, USA): she is a feminist activist, politician, journalist, supporter of the women’s liberation movement (’60s-’70s), a movement that coincided with the second wave of the feminist movement in the USA. Her life has been characterized by obstacles that have certainly made so structured her […]
Tempo di lettura: 11 minutiThis is one of the most used expressions, one of the many predictable during discussions or conversations in which we simply assume an opposite – and often reasonable – position to our interlocutor. It is that particular form of aggressiveness that aims to devalue the speaker, linked by a close relationship to mansplaining, patriarchal explaining, “feministology”, paternalism, in other words, all those behaviors which aim to put us in our place, in the role of eternal little girls to be […]
Tempo di lettura: 10 minutiI’ve always loved that solitude that allows me to observe from the outside the world I live in: it’s solitude made of small things, observations, reflections, and fantasy. Exploring dynamics and people, the way relationships influence actions, the way stereotypes create the solid foundations of beliefs and rules that we often follow without asking ourselves too many questions, because we find ourselves in a vortex of words, noises, news, opinions to express, positions to take, “this and that” to share […]
Tempo di lettura: 2 minutiWriting as a path of healing, self-discovery through the sharing of experiences, thoughts, practices Writing about injustices faced, about pain and joy, about doubts and conviction, about frustrations and unexpected discoveries Writing to find that our lives have so much to tell, to offer to those who may recognize themselves in little or great stories Writing to find that our lives have so much to tell, to offer to those who may recognize themselves in both great and small narratives […]
