Sonia Pierre, Haitian rights activist, with Catherine Bardon
Catherine Bardon devotes herself to writing and spends her time between France and the Dominican Republic. She is the author of the saga “Les Déracinés”, which has sold more than 600,000 copies and won several awards, notably the Wizo Prize and the Chambéry First Novel Festival in 2019. In some novels, Catherine Bardon has established […]
Anti-Franco activist Nemesi Solà has died at the age of 95
El sindicalista i activista antifranquista Nemesi Solà i Franquesa (Barcelona, 1929) ha mort als 95 anys. Pastisser i forner de professió, Solà va ser un referent catalanista al llarg dels anys i un dels autors del segrest de la Mare de Déu de Núria el 1967 per evitar que fos coronada pel dictador Franco. Nemesi […]
Carlos Arniches and the women’s rights activist Carme Karr are among the authors whose rights will be revoked in Spain until 2024
MADRID, 2nd En. (EUROPA PRESS) – The Spanish National Library has digitized 1,033 works by 137 Spanish authors who died in 1943 and made them available to users through the Hispanic Digital Library, whose works will enter the public domain in 2024, including the comedian Carlos Arniches or the suffragist Carme Karr. As every year, […]
On the stage, the Russian Netrebko and the Ukrainian activist protest against “propaganda against Putin”.
This year too, the Prima della Scala sparks protests in the Ukrainian community. If the problem in 2022 was the choice of “Boris Godunov” to open the Scala season in Milan, this year the target of the protests is the soprano Anna Netrebko, who will play Elisabetta Di Valois in “Don Carlo”. The artist “has […]
Interview with trans activist Valentina Berr, who is publishing a book about the questions they ask trans women
BarcelonaFed up with so many questions that come close to poor education due to indiscretions, Valentina Beer started a podcast which she has now turned into a book with the same title: The answer to everything you would ask a trans aunt (Editorial egales). Born in Ripollet in 1993, Beer is an activist against transphobia, […]
Transgender activist Clizia De Rossi: “Patrizia Mirigliani blocked me”
MISS ITALY / Transgender activist Clizia De Rossi: “Patrizia Mirigliani blocked me”; while journalist Giuseppe Cruciani on the jury “must show that he is a progressive libertarian, as he likes to define himself, and must have the courage to promote the inclusion of all women, including transgender women.” Patrizia Mirigliani “blocked me on social media,” […]
Activist Pegah Moshir Pour, Tommasi and the Spinelli brothers are guests at the “Buone NOTEIE” festival
Francesco Oggiano, the activist Pegah Moshir Pour, Sandro Tommasi and the brothers Marco and Andrea Spinelli are some of the guests who will animate “Reaction”, the first Festival of Good News in Italy, a unique event of its kind organized by Visionary Bergamo is organized. enriched by important names from the world of journalism and […]
YesAllWoman, interview with activist and author Carolina Capria
Thousands and thousands of testimonies of violence. Suffered and then hidden, never reported and in the vast majority of cases never told. To act as an igniter for the stories collected and shared every Sunday by Carolina Capriaon Instagram with the account @lhascrittounafemminawas the news of the gang rape in Palermo. Every Sunday, he shares […]
Therefore, Google wishes the educator and activist Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona all the best
Today’s Google Doodle, September 24th, is dedicated to the 122nd birthday of Giovanna Boccalini BarcelonaItalian educator and women’s rights activist at the beginning of the 20th century. Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona was born on this day in 1901 in Lodi. She studied pedagogy at the Scuola Normale Femminile and then became a primary school teacher. As […]
Italian writer and activist Michela Murgia, a free voice for right-backs, has died
The writer Michelle Murgia (Cabras, Sardinia, 1972 – Rome, 2023), a unique voice of the movement feminist Italian, Catholic, influential left-wing intellectualHe died of kidney cancer on Thursday night at the age of 51. They are great cultural activism in social networks has influenced the public debate and generated one critical reflection on crucial and […]