Prima Ballerina – Lisa Macuja Elizalde in full costume as the White Swan for her Swan Song Series back in 2013. Image from Ballet Manila. Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde was born on October 3, 1964 and is a Filipino prima ballerina. In 1984, she broke barriers...
The Age of Innocence, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Currently held by the Tate. In the English Early Modern period, the rape of young girls appeared in Old Bailey court records on a devastatingly high level. Yet studies show only around 30% of men charged with rape of...
The Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi. Photo by Christophe95. Museums are not neutral. Despite what many people think, museums are not, and never have been, neutral. Yes, they can be an invaluable educational source, but it is up to the consumer to...
Township loading screen. I’m a creature of habit, I love routine and I crave structure. The last year has not been good for this. March 2020, like a lot of people, I transitioned to working from home. While this had its perks (no more three hour daily commute!), it...
Adi Topolosky, 2020. Photo courtesy of Dahlia Topolosky. In January 2020, Adi Topolosky, who was 11 years old at the time and a keen basketball player, experienced gender-based discrimination while trying to buy sneakers at Foot Locker. However, Adi did not let this...
Sadako at the hospital. Copyright: Sadako Legacy NPO Born in 1943, Sadako Sasaki was just two years old when the American pilot Paul Tibbet flew his B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, over Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6, 1945, by order of then President Harry S. Truman, Paul...
