GOD SAVE ANYTHING BEFORE MY SHOES
On and on, I’ve been hearing and reading that women love shoes; that it is women’s favorite accessory, that we’re obsessed, addicted, crazy for them and, furthermore, that the reasons…
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FULFILLED WOMANHOOD IN DYSTOPIC SPAIN
Since the 1st January 2014, the legislation about reproductive rights in Spain has changed. If a child gets injured or contracts a life-threatening disease, one of the biological parents, preferently…
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ARTISTIC DIALOGUE: OPEN CALL 2014
The ‘artisticDIALOGUE’ project is challenging all Berlin based artists to work for one month on a collaborative art project with another artist. Guided by inspiring academics–amongst COVEN Berlin’s Co-Founder Lo Pecado–the…
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THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF BOREDOM
You’ve seen it before. It made your mother cover all the walls of your working-class family apartment with her framed cross-stitched embroidery copied from the Burda magazine. It makes your…
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PRUDE REBEL
In the last weeks I have been struck by our hypersexual society. I think I was blind to it before. Of course we see the nudity, the racy jumpsuits and…
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CONCHA
CONCHA f (plural conchas) 1. seashell 2. Popular Spanish female name meaning “conception” 3. (vulgar, Latin America) cunt CONCHA is the Spanish word for seashell and also a…
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WOR(L)DLESS
Night clubs are fascinatingly wordless. Like a birth, Frightfully non-verbal. The pre-linguistic music, the mute people Trying to conceale their smells, scars, souls, Trying to pretend they have smells, scars,…
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PORN SHRINES
Although I hate Sundays, today I venture out of my house with a warm feeling of anticipation and a tingling heart. For the first time, I am going to be…
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IT WAS MY FIRST TIME
I had a boyfriend when i was 14. He was delicate and soft and had a lovely smile. I really loved him. Once he let me put makeup on…
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CHALLENGE THE TRADITIONAL ROMANCE NARRATIVE
Stop romanticizing intimate partner violence! Western culture’s traditional gender ideology is woven seamlessly into both fairy tale and dark romance narratives. Central to traditional gender ideology is linking…
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