Tempo di lettura: 6 minutiBurroughs: The “Wild Boys” weapon is a Bowie knife, a forty-five centimeter Bowie knife, did you know that? Bowie: A forty-five centimeter Bowie knife…of course you don’t do things by halves, no really. No, I didn’t know that was their weapon. The name Bowie attracted me when I was younger. I was sixteen years old, I was in a deep philosophical phase, and I was looking for something immediate, something that would immediately make you think of severing the lie, […]

Tempo di lettura: 7 minutiThere’s an exercise I like to do: occasionally I pause, and I put the events of my life back together, the good ones, the bad ones, the unforgettable ones because they were good, the unforgettable ones because they were bad. And I follow the thread that brought me to where I am now. I consider it a kind of healing, welcoming hug, through which I whisper to myself “go ahead, be confident: who knows how many more experiences will take […]

Tempo di lettura: 8 minuti“The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting” -Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies- I still wonder about it today: “When I grow up” imposes looking far ahead, feeling that we have a lot to do along the way, implies a road to travel, a world to discover; it is tomorrow, it is the future that is built through choices in the present, curiosity about what we might find along the way. As long as I ask myself […]

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: 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 […]

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 […]