Beyond the single story

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

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,…

God is not working on sunday, eh!

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…

X MARCA (SÓLO) UNA CASILLA X

Propuesta para Casa Vecina Publicado en casavecina.com/cuidados-domesticos “¿Qué es este ser dividido, introducido en el lenguaje a través del género? Es un ser imposible, un ser que no existe, un chiste ontológico.” Monique Wittig   En la constante necesidad de entendernos, de definirnos, de traducirnos en números y de mostrarnos en estadísticas, establecemos fronteras y creamos…

Women and work in Indonesia

Researching women’s access to the labor markets is a never-ending theme that seems to widen in a rhizomatic fashion where any question is followed by more questions that bring us back to the very beginning: which women? What work? What kind of access? Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world after China,…

Solidarity across Borders

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,…

Regretters

-Orlando: Well. This is a little weird for us. -Mikael: Yes. -Orlando: I thought I was the only one. -Mikael: Yes. -Orlando: When did you get yours? -Mikael: 94. -Orlando: Ah… not so long ago. Where? -Mikael: In the Hospital Karolinska. -Orlando: I see… And… You did… -Mikael: The whole thing… yes… 94. Hmmm… I…