This book explained why it is important for boys and men to embrace feminism. When it comes to boys, Bell Hooks saw that “most adults are more comfortable confronting a raging teenager than one who is overwhelmed by sorrow and cannot stop weeping.” Feminist activists that wants to end sexist oppression should be more than… Read More Book Review: “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love” by Bell hooks
I saw an interesting article lately from Yassmin Abdel-Magied on this LinkedIn post. Harvard Business Review (HBR) also discussed this topic in January 2012. The video above explain clearly what is meant by ‘influencing’. It states, “your ability to influence others will impact your capabilities as a leader”. This is so true. As someone who… Read More Let’s talk about: influencing style
As we are approaching the end of this year, I would like to talk about two films that I enjoyed watching in 2019. It may be coincidence, or maybe not, but these two movies are available around the same time and have similar themes. Both movies play around with the power of conversations. While ‘Kim… Read More Movie Reviews: “Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982” and “Marriage Story”
I decided to come up with a series of blog posts discussing inspiring people that I found throughout my life. Today I would like to introduce to you (who doesn’t know her already), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She was born in Nigeria and is the fifth children in her family. She is now a well-known feminist… Read More Inspiring Person Series: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A friend of mine once posted about a book that quickly interests me: “Goodbye things” by Fumio Sasaki. Minimalism has been a way of living that is quite popular in Japan. What is interesting is that in this materialistic era, we often forgot that we have bought so many things and kept it for years… Read More Minimalism: Why I am interested in this way of life
People often rate us for where we have been Why? because they do not know other ways to understand Did they ask how it is and then left, or are they there to stay, to feel, to respect, to honour We often forget that not everything that have passed in front of our eyes matter… Read More How we’ve been
I saw a note I made during a HOPE XXL conference in the Netherlands in 2014. “Hi I am Nadira and I am here to speak on behalf of the people who can’t be here. I have lived in this world just for 23 years. But those years are enough for me to realize that what… Read More A speech script I made when I was 23
This week, Beyonce came with a new surprise. After 2 new songs were being leaked on the internet, she released a new music video for 7/11 on the 21st of November. The background of the song name itself is still a mistery to this day, with some people making their own theories about what the title… Read More My week in popular (…or not so popular) culture 23 November 2014
I have been contemplating to create “my week in popular culture” series for a long time, but never have been brave enough to start until now. I hope I can be consistent in writing blog posts for this section. To start, I am going to let you know how this works. For a week, I… Read More My week in popular (…or not so popular) culture 16 November 2014
The emergence of the internet, social media and smart phones has created more complex processes of the ‘boomerang’ and the ‘ricochet’. The ‘ricochet’ is the process of political and legal argumentation and information exchange between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and regional or international institutions. The individuals behind the internet, similar to the NGOs, help to frame… Read More The prevalence of technology and its influence on social change
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