I recently finished the novel Americanah, by Chimamanda Adichie. I didn’t know much about her except that she was Nigerian, an excellent writer and that she had a bestseller called “We should all be feminists” which sounded at first, as a catchy cheesy title but, one that could be helpful to invite more people to the…
Una Historia de Familia es un documental dirigido por Pablo Rogero que narra la historia de Mario y Sergio, una pareja de Barcelona que toma la decisión de convertirse en padres. La historia acompaña a la pareja durante los tres años que dura el proceso de gestación subrogada que inician en el 2011. Ellos deciden hacerlo a distancia,…
No one has the right to obey Hanna Arendt ¡Dios no trabaja los domingos! narra diferentes historias de mujeres en Ruanda, 20 años después del genocidio que en poco más de tres meses dejó mares de víctimas y de tristezas. A través de este reportaje, la directora alemana Leona Goldstein escenifica la tragedia que moviliza, que crea espacios…
Introduction In October 2014 a news story went viral and created great controversy when a white lesbian couple from Ohio sued their sperm bank over a mistake with their chosen donor. The couple alleged the company erroneously gave them vials from an African-American donor instead of the white donor they had carefully chosen. This mistake,…
Anthropology – Society, Difference and Identity The first professor of anthropology in the United States, Daniel G. Brinton, published in 1890, a compilation of ethnography lectures, Races and Peoples, that included a craniology survey listing features used to classify races. Brinton explained: “We are accustomed familiarly to speak of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ races, and we…
Beyond "he" and "she" 