Weekend reads
‘Rap does not shut up’: hip-hop women of Senegal Why we still take to the streets Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels Foreign diplomats brace for 4 more years of Trump
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Millennial
Currently living in Brussels, I grew up in Florence from Dutch/Iranian parents. I love reading, watching movies and TV shows, spending loads of time with friends, enjoying the sun and good food.
New year’s resolutions
It’s this time of the year! The Christmas and New Year’s break is an opportunity to take the time to reflect about our past year and the one ahead of us. Well, at least I do so. A friend always asked me to draft and share with her a list of my favourite moments of […]
MoreDo drama movies make us better people?
I am watching ‘This is us’ at the moment, an American drama TV show. To be honest I wasn’t so convinced about starting to watch it, friends had told me good things about it (and it got 8.7 on IMDB!), but I thought it was going to be very sappy. And it is. But it’s […]
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Reuters pictures of the decade Britain’s Yellow Jacket election Obama’s Anger Management Problem Prix des médicaments : la campagne que les labos ne veulent pas voir La Piedad de Miguel Ángel y el complejo de salvadora blanca
MoreIs imposing your mindset a result of colonialism?
A few days ago I ended up being part of a conversation about lobbying for Palestinian rights at the EU level (against my will, I rarely find these conversations interesting because they are usually held by people whose analysis is not very deep). A Palestinian was also part of it and a white woman was […]
MoreConsumerism 1 – me 0
I couldn’t resist the call of the consumerism sirens and bought new clothes online. Between rent, flight tickets to see my family and friends abroad during the Christmas holidays and new clothes and shoes I bought, I spent over 1,000 euros in a few clicks. More than half of my entire salary gone in a […]
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Feminists are always angry
Congratulations to whomever invented this strategy to silence people. Saying to someone “don’t play the victim”, “you are exaggerating”, “you are being heavy” (I have been told this even by a woman when denouncing a sexist situation, as I wrote in a previous post), “why are you always so angry”, is a very effective way […]
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Blabbering of a millennial 