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  • Women Rights Start with the Right Language

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    I believe that sometimes language is sexist, and vocabulary non-inclusive. In Spanish, recent years have seen an ample debate on how to eliminate gender issues when speaking or writing, with a camp promoting the use of “inclusive” language, and others touting it as unnecessary and cumbersome. In English, when a […]

  • Recordatorio en el día de la mujer

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    For me, the International Women’s Day, more than a celebration is a reminder. Reminder that women who today enjoy education, a career, professional respect, access to services and media, as well as a life without physical or psychological abuse, have a responsibility towards women that don’t enjoy those privileges in […]

  • Is there a “Home” to return to?

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    Migrants who come back home can return with valuable new skills and contacts that can positively affect their home countries’ job market. But matters of identity, questions of belonging and shame at returning empty-handed can overwhelm purely economic concerns. This year’s Berlin Film Festival showed two films dealing with characters […]