“I was insulted, tailed and offered ‘helicopter rides’, a reference to the way they used to throw disappeared prisoners into the sea during the Chilean dictatorship”. Maria Rivera, a Chilean lawyer and activist, described the climate in Chile during the Estallido Social, the social demonstrations that broke out in 2019 and continued during the COVID-19 […]
Dear friend, At last, I am writing to you. I have wanted to do it since January or maybe February, not for you, but for me. It is not with anger or hatred that I write to you, perhaps not even resentment. I breathe a quiet calm; it tastes of fatality. In these […]
Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin’s collaboration is a shrill and harassing scream that echoes throughout the room. It is a sum of primordial and disturbing silhouettes imbued with morbid fascination. The product of Bourgeois’ mind combined with Emin’s is a series of sixteen dirty, macabre nudes. The woman is a womb, and the man is […]
Insatiable conqueror, it is a barren land you have usurped. With disdain, you have subdued this body, a battlefield. Every day a new punishment you inflict on this unrooted and in darkness you plunder her sacred temple. Gorged with hybris (1) you started an unjust war, without dread, without scruple, strong in your […]
Prostitution “is officially acknowledged as a form of exploitation of women and children and constitutes a significant social problem, which is harmful not only to the individual prostituted person but also to society at large” (McCarthy et all, 2012; Honeyball, 2014). Prostitution involves almost 42 million people worldwide. Since most of the sellers are […]
Sunday evening, small provincial town. Two friends sit on a terrace and chat. Both have been raped. The next day, Monday afternoon, Padua. Three girls drink coffee in a bar, they all come from different countries. All have been raped. Of these four, two have been raped more than once in their lives. Of these […]