Tempo di lettura: 2 minutiLike every woman who finds inspiration in Gloria Steinem’s life and words, a few months ago I watched the live broadcast where she attended the presentation of Mona Chollet’s book In defence of witches. Indeed, we cannot talk about oppression towards women without knowing its history, its roots, its analogies. We cannot fail to consider that every time has its ‘witch hunt’, or we would end up considering violence as an emergency issue and not a historical fact, falling into […]

Tempo di lettura: 2 minutiOn 8 December 1980, I was two and a half years old, and the family was probably putting up Christmas trees while John Lennon was murdered in New York. Too young to experience the world’s reaction, but the dismay and grief spanned the decades, so much so that I seem to cherish the memory of that cursed day. During this time, I have been lucky enough to be able to closely follow the experience of reading aloud to boys and […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiYou can do what you can never do at Christmas, or you can do what you should do every day of your life, in order to make sense of existence: be aware that it is only through individual choices that you can bring about change and hope to reverse the course of a society that is dangerously slipping towards a degradation whose consequences can only fall on each and every one of us, bar none. If someone tells you that […]