Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiWhen I was a child, I was afraid of deep water. I used to swim on the shoreline, where I would wait for the waves to come and go, leaving me safe there, under the watchful gaze of my parents. It was only with them that I ventured a little further, both my small hands clasped between theirs. Squeezed until they hurt. As I grew up I learnt to swim, but for years I could not stay still and keep […]
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 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: 7 minutiA little feather is so light that we cannot hear the sound of its movement in the air But in 1973 Sacheen Littlefeather produced a so powerful and deep sound that it has come down to us traveling through the years and the consciousnesses of those who laughed at her, ignored her, acclaimed her, isolated her. A disturbing sound to the United States that proclaims itself as the home of freedoms and civil rights while hiding the dust of prevarication […]
Tempo di lettura: 6 minutiI saw Blonde without pre-reading any reviews. Because usually, everything I read about Marilyn Monroe disturbs me: even today, 60 years after her death, Marilyn is still narrated as an icon of femininity, beauty, elegance, and winking, as opposed to a kind of “modern inelegance” of all those women — both celebrities and not — who don’t wear belly choke dresses, stilettos, powdered faces, and kiss-proof lips, accompanying everything with suave vocals and sinuous movements, for the public’s pleasure. Either […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiI’m an alligator, I’m a mama-papa coming for you I’m the space invader, I’ll be a rock ‘n’ rollin’ bitch for you Keep your mouth shut, you’re squawking like a pink monkey bird And I’m busting up my brains for the words On September 26, 2022, the right wing takes over the government in Italy. And when bad things happen, we all need to be close to someone who can give us new motivation to continue life’s journey. As I […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiThis morning I opened my eyes at 5:45. But I didn’t get up. I stayed there, trying to stop time a little longer. Because getting up would begin one of those dreaded days. I fell asleep again, enjoying some of the silence that is short-lived in my neck of the woods: at about 7 a.m. the neighbor downstairs curses, just before that the neighbors listen to the TV as if they were at the movies, and the people who come […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiI feel overwhelmed with grief, exhaustion, anger at this whole world that hates women. And I can’t get my thoughts in order. But I want to. I would like to find simple words, I would like to address a young woman or a young man these days: the witch hunt does not belong to a past far from your lives. It happens today, as you live your freedom in the certainty that it will last forever. It happens today as […]
