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28 June 2022

“SENSITIVE PEOPLE NEED TO STAY CLOSE”

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiA dear friend said this some time ago, right when the funeral of a person who died by suicide was being celebrated, a very sensitive person, precisely. He said this while talking about the fact that it is complicated to be in the world if you are the one who carries the sensitivity that doesn’t know prejudice, that doesn’t contemplate boundaries or individualism, that moves the love of diversity, that doesn’t feel the need to label or judge. It is […]

13 June 2022

GRACE ROBERTSON OBE

Tempo di lettura: 5 minutiBorn on 13th July 1930 in Manchester, she was one of the most important photographers in history. Her father, Fyfe Robertson, was a journalist who in 1949 began working for the Picture Post, a liberal, anti-fascist and populist photojournalism magazine, founded in 1938 and considered a pioneering magazine in the field because for the first time it documented pre-war, war and post-war life in Britain through photography, becoming a window on the world for the population. At the time, photojournalism […]

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10 June 2022

CATCALLING – STREET HARRASMENT

Tempo di lettura: 11 minutiCATCALLING:”Sexual harassment, predominantly verbal, occurring in the street. The word catcalling names a series of acts (unsolicited compliments, vulgar comments directed at the victim’s body or attitude, whistling and booing from the car, intrusive questions, insults, and even outright insults) which, because they are considered an expression of a sexist and devaluing mentality, constitute a specific type of sexual harassment and street harassment. Called like pets. Like those creatures that reply to a specific sound and reward us for giving […]

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6 June 2022

“SELF” WHAAAT???

Tempo di lettura: 8 minuti‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. ‘Self-care’: a term that has now become part of our everyday vocabulary, often abused and shredded by practical acts that have nothing to do with its profound meaning. I don’t have any desire to spread self-care practice suggestions; the web is full of practical tips by those who tell us how to […]

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