Body image is often related too quickly to weight, but body issues can also be linked to skin issues, hair, body hair, skin color, sexual orientation, or age. In our patriarchal society, women are used to defining their worth around the male gaze and beauty standards that keep changing over time, making it appear impossible […]
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Within This Dome
Within this dome,I stare above a dark heaven and sparse black clouds,Surrounded only by silhouettes in my view, This dome where time and space divorce,And I am left to debate one for the other,Found in a routine and weekly turnarounds,I spiral and shift in a vision of my masks, ever-changing and corrected by knots that […]
· Where do you come from? · Before I came to live in Slovenia, I lived for a few months in Germany, and before that, I lived my whole life in Jordan. So, am I coming from Jordan? · Oh, what a nice king and beautiful queen you have! […]
This is a summary of what was discussed on 25 February, 2024 on the topic of financial feminism. At the Sunday discussion on financial feminism, one of the main questions was how to not perpetuate a growth-oriented exploitative system while this system is forcing us to take care of our financial and thus existential security […]
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Activism; the guilt of not doing enough.
This article starts from a feeling I have experienced for a long time. While feminism and social justice have always been causes close to my heart, it has always been difficult to be “active enough”. I am surrounded by activists that participate in demonstrations on a regular basis, belong to organisations such as UNICEF, Amnesty […]
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On becoming a financial feminist
“Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. […] Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry.” A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf What personal wisdom or advice would […]
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To Be a Mother, Or Not to Be?
While reading a novel named Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, one paragraph caught my attention. It made me realize that femininity and being a woman are socially constructed on many levels: “Do you know what annoys me so much? If I got hit by a car while we’re crossing and died, in the newspaper […]