Naming social phenomena is crucial for them to emerge in the collective debate as issues worthy of receiving due media and political attention. Femicide is not simply the murder of a woman; it is the intentional murder carried out by a man against a person socially recognized as a woman precisely because she is woman. […]
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“We are going to Poland. Are you coming with us?”, wrote me Fernanda Torre, president of Pulmino Verde, a non-profit association founded in Turin in 2016, with the aim of providing relief in border territories, telling the stories of the people they meet and documenting the realities with which they collaborate on the spot. I […]
A few months ago, I turned twenty-five. Disbelieving in front of the realization that I was no longer twenty-one, I felt the urgent need to rebel, but the celebrations of the night before had made me very sleepy and the idea of ingesting more alcohol did not appeal to me at all. Watching a movie […]
The Po is swimmable. So begins my river chat with Marco Bonfante, co-founder of the Associazione Vie d’Acqua, born three years ago thanks to a lucky meeting of intentions, personal and professional, with his partner and friend, Marco Borrelli. “I presented my project to the Metropolitan City of Turin for a speech to support the […]
A walk-in Alexandria brought us in front of a window with welcoming and unusual writing, “Come in to have a look is not a crime”. Needless to say, I leave from there with the Sbirra, a craft beer flavored with citrus fruits from the Prison of Syracuse… It is illegal not to drink it together […]
During my first weeks as a student in Turin, I wrote down in a small blue notebook all the restaurants, pastry shops, and bistros to try. Horas Kebab was among them. Yet for three years, I lived without the fantastic falafel of Bibo… I wonder how I did it. Finally, that day came for me […]
Photo Credit: Alessandra Pisani I struggled to write this review. Reading the book was a constant conflict. It seemed endless to me and each page a steep climb. I have encountered so many criticisms. First of all, I think I missed the moment, I wasn’t emotionally ready. Carrying such a crude, demeaning, painful reading probably […]
Today, HUMANS paints itself with the colors of nature and brings on board a special protagonist, Sabrina Steriti. A plant-based self-taught chef and content creator (you can find her on Instagram and YouTube), who takes care of everything concerning a healthy and natural diet, and a lifestyle with low environmental impact! What is plant-based? How […]
Niloufar Nojabaei, the owner of the restaurant Persian Food, is the new protagonist of the column “Multiethnic companies in Turin”. Her blond hair, almost curlier than mine, and the witty eyes, which let me imagine a beautiful smile under the mask, welcomed me in a cozy and charming place. In front of a good cup […]
Today’s protagonist is Carmelo Musumeci, writer, graduated in Law, Prison Law and Philosophy. In his first dissertation, “Living life imprisonment”, he writes: “I was sentenced to life imprisonment. They didn’t want to punish me, they wanted to destroy me: lifelong imprisonment goes against nature. […] The sentence of life imprisonment is not a deterrent, it […]