• Lezioni dal passato: 25 Aprile 1945 – 2024
    Il 25 aprile si festeggia la Liberazione dell’Italia dal nazifascismo, che ha distrutto il nostro Paese durante gli anni della dittatura e della guerra. Teoricamente dovremmo, quindi, vivere in un Paese libero, democratico, che ripudia ogni forma di discriminazione, oppressione, violenza e guerra, quali caratteristiche del vent’ennio fascista. Dovremmo vivere in una democrazia che ha… Leggi tutto: Lezioni dal passato: 25 Aprile 1945 – 2024
  • E’ il momento di dire “BASTA!”.
    Cara Giulia, ti scrivo perché ciò che ti è successo non può più accadere e io non posso più stare in silenzio. Non ti conosco nemmeno, non so chi sei, cosa facevi nella vita, non ho la più pallida idea di che tipo di persona fossi, ma sicuramente non meritavi tutto questo. Così come non… Leggi tutto: E’ il momento di dire “BASTA!”.
  • (1973) 2022 – Roe vs. Wade
    The year is 1973, an eventful year for the United States. A year marking Billie Jean King’s tremendous game against Bobby Riggs, the signing of the Paris Peace Accords ending American involvement in the Vietnam war, and of course, the passing of Roe v. Wade.  Perhaps you’ve heard about this from friends, on the news,… Leggi tutto: (1973) 2022 – Roe vs. Wade
  • Museums want immigrants as their visitors, but do they want them as curators?
    Museums are not unbiased in their choices of preservation of art and history. In the western world, exhibitions are normally assembled by white people, assuming a white audience and privileging the white gaze.  In the Netherlands, a country that received over 250,000 immigrants solely in 2021, only 2,6 percent of employees occupying high positions in… Leggi tutto: Museums want immigrants as their visitors, but do they want them as curators?
  • The Prospect of War
    For many of us lucky enough to be born in peaceful landscapes, the prospect of war has always been this vague thing. An almost impossibility, a historical artifact, a was, not an is. An if, not a when.  But for just as many people, war has always been a reality. Geopolitical tensions, generations raised anxious, a child with a vague concept of their country’s predicament, of the fact that they might be attacked, invaded, and that they and their family might be forced to run.  What is an unstable home to a child?  The morbid tragedy of a child aware of their own mortality; the saddening naiveté of a child who looks you in the eye and talks about their own death as if it were a real possibility — as if they really understood.