Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiMegan was part Ethiopian, part African-American, part Malawian, and part English which felt weird when you broke it down like that because essentially she was just a complete human being most people assumed she was mixed-race, it was easier to let them think it Bernardine Evaristo is a British writer and the first Black woman to win the 2019 Booker Prize. Born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father, she has also won other awards including the British […]
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 […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiHow to contribute to social justice activism through art? In Activism will save us from hate (and extinction) I set out my aim to address all the forms of activism that I have experienced and encountered throughout my life and to collect all the experiences you would like to share with me so that together we can spread the awareness that another possible world can be built in every moment of our lives, through small and great acts. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh […]
Tempo di lettura: 16 minuti“Activism is my rent for living on the planet” – Alice Walker – American writer and social activist The word of the day, of every day, the word that should be put in the various philosophical calendars circulating online, on school bulletin boards, at the newsagent’s, on public transport should be ACTIVISM. A simple word, which by becoming part of our lives with all its load of meaning, alone would be enough to change the world. From the very first […]
Tempo di lettura: 9 minutiThere is no worse ignorant than those who find safe haven in their ignorance. Ignorance is a fence, a protection, made of certainties impervious to questioning, to the process of learning and evolution: one stands still and looks at the world exclusively through the fence. No one enters, no one leaves. Social dynamics change with changing times, changing technologies, changing knowledge, and therefore each era has its own means of spreading ignorance, its own strategies, its own languages, and this […]
Tempo di lettura: 2 minutiAWID – Association fo Women in Development – is a global, feminist, membership, advocacy organization whose mission is to work to achieve gender justice and human rights for women around the world. This goal is pursued by addressing the challenges of oppressive generating systems together with organizations and individual women participating in extraordinary and powerful networking, AWID succeeds in giving visibility to feminist practice through widespread outreach to amplify the realities on which it feeds, stimulating and facilitating or mutual […]
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 […]
