about everything in (my) life
“Leave women’s body alone”. Could be referring to a lot of stuff, at the moment I was thinking of the debate around the hijab in France. Respecting or working to improve women’s rights means leaving us alone, leaving us choosing what we want to wear, what beauty means. All the pressure on what to wear […]
MoreBook recommendation of the day - The house of the mosque by Kader Abdolah
‘I wanted to prove people wrong and take ownership of my past’ - personal essays and art by formerly or currently incarcerated Americans.
“And when people are hurt, they need people to blame”, sings Kate Tempest. I suppose s refers to white supremacy and xenophobic groups, or Brexit supporters. By the way during a concert in Brussels on 25 October she said that she hopes that what people wouldn’t understand from her English they would feel it…. Refreshing […]
MoreAs I guess most of us do, I think about death sometimes. Most of the times I try to fight the thought back. Recently a friend suggested that maybe it’s not always about death, sometimes maybe it’s my anxiety or distress – the dark side – that manifests itself in the shape of a thought […]
MoreI am worried when I see that Facebook selects which posts you are going to see in your timeline, news channels are talking about (see “The loudest voice”) about the possibility of choosing which news to watch. That's sounds to me like the recipe for an increasing ignorant world population.
Following up on the “2019 version of Bridget Jones’ diary” post, I would like to stop 5 minutes to think about my efforts to reduce waste and CO2. So, here below a non exhausive list. I don’t buy water bottles any more, including sparkling water that I love, unless I am in a country where […]
MoreInstead of listing kilos, cigarettes smoked and units of alcohol drunk, I will – very millennial of me – count the number of days without eating meat per week, ne w green actions taken and community work and so on. I will start now – I haven’t bought any piece of new clothing since 12 […]
MoreHow do you contribute to change? Where does the limit between being constantly critical – and often so annoying – and be constructive stand? These are the questions I have been asking myself lately. I live it as both an internal and an external struggle. I always thought life is easier and lighter, thus happier, […]
MoreWhen I was 9 years old a teacher told me I should have become a journalist, after she read an analysis of a newspaper article I drafted for an assignment. This memory stuck. I didn’t become a journalist, I didn’t even really tried to, even if I did publish an article here and there. Writing […]
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Blabbering of a millennial 