Chiara Fazio I have always wondered why we need to define things, feelings or words that accompany us in our life. If a term is defined, it is because we want it to have a definite parameter, maybe in order to put it into a category and finally assign to it a specific rule. Defining [...]
Rhomir Yanquiling No person is ever divorced from the rest of humanity. Ours is an interconnected world… Until we see this interconnectedness, we will not be able to realize the beauty in the midst of differences, the symmetry behind disparity, and the reality hidden in paradoxes. This is how we should see the world in [...]
Gratian Mihailescu They are no longer on the first page of newspapers. They don’t increase media audiences, they don’t produce enough clicks and retweets, no one is interested anymore. From time to time, a picture on social media and some numbers: other 30 refugees died. On TV, the news on the refugees is at some [...]
Rhomir Yanquiling Words are immensely powerful. Its power has been proven time and time again and old bald history can attest to that. They can bleed, cut or even destroy a nation. They can shape, influence or alter our perceptions of truth and reality. They can serve as a vehicle of lies and instrument of [...]
Rhomir Yanquiling Wahid (not his real name) is a migrant from an emerging state somewhere in Asia who resolved upon himself to find a place in the sun in an industrialized state in North America, thousands of miles away from his family. He ventured on this rather unprecedented decision in order to provide for his [...]
Natia Shakaia “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”-Martin Luther King, Jr. Racism can be defined as [...]
Maria Coleman In 2009 the Dalai Lama said “THE WORLD WILL BE SAVED BY THE WESTERN WOMEN”. He also said he is a feminist. I’m one myself. I had sort of forgotten until some sparks reignited recently. Despite PhD-level education, I have, due to child-rearing and geography, been loitering around the bottom of the career [...]