Gender in Bulgaria (summary)
Gender in Bulgaria at a glance- World Bank Report I stumbled upon this super concise document produced by the World Bank in Bulgaria which takes a look at gender and the distribution of employment and...
View ArticleFaces of Palestine
This is an excerpt from a Middle East Eye article I published in the summer reflecting on the social documentary project my dear friend Asala Salhab and I carried out on the West Bank, Palestine in the...
View ArticleChoose Love over Fear
Today and every day, choose love over fear until it becomes your habit. Wayne Dyer Today I reminded myself of the time I was freer when I could Love without fear and find strength in vulnerability. In...
View ArticleThe Reign of Monogamy
Durkheim and the reign of monogamy I started practicing polyamory[1] three years ago in an attempt to free myself of the unbearable attachment, dependency and conditionality that came with monogamous...
View ArticleMarxism in the Bedroom
More than a century ago, Oscar Wilde stated what may seem an eternal truth. “Everything is about sex except for sex. Sex is about power,” he wrote. But what power could this be? As Marx posits, “The...
View ArticleA Bulgarian “Guyland”
This is an academic research paper written for my class “Sociology of Gender” at Middlebury College. If you have any feedback, please, use the comments section under the article! Happy reading! M. From...
View ArticleDesire and Pleasure of the (Un)Sexed Body
The “sexing” of bodies is inevitably a social process whereby certain bodies are categorized as pertaining to men, while others- to women. The “in-between” remains invisible, concealed by the...
View ArticleManufacturing Female Anxiety
I am 22 years old. I weight 52 kilograms. My height is 164cm (I’d like to think of myself as “petite”, although I’m perhaps too tall for it). I do think of myself as attractive. The size of my breasts...
View ArticleLittle, Big Things (Day 2 in Sierra Leone)
English Below Спане Първата нощ, без да знам, че трябва да се изпъне мрежата за комарите, и изтощена от дългото пътуване се бях завила с нея като с одеало. На следващия ден май ме бяха усетили и като...
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