The mirror society
07:00 am. The alarm goes off and after a lot of effort you decide it’s time to get up and drag yourself all the way to the bathroom in order to get ready for the tiring day ahead of you. So, as you’re standing in front of the mirror, you start observing yourself a bit […]
And if I cry, so what?
“Don’t cry”, “the man is the bearer of the house”, “you are a man, you are in charge”. These are just some of the expressions that ring in the ears of a little boy as he grows up, coming from both male and female figures in his social environment. Although they do not come as […]
On Fridays we Love: Auguste Corteau
“What does it mean when a book unlocks doors in your soul that you keep tightly closed because pain lives unabated inside them?” the author writes. And the truth is that no one could better describe the emotional attachment that every reader feels having encountered a book by Auguste Corteau than the author himself in his […]
”The masks have fallen” Photo-Episode B, pt.3
The indeterminate figure approached her, sitting by her side. Her facial features were absent. In their place there was a void instead. An empty anthropomorphic canvas, a terrifyingly scarce image. Uneasiness came over Rosalia. Blurred thoughts overwhelmed her. Questions danced in her mind in a state of utter frenzy. A foray of speculations and queries […]
”The masks have fallen” Photo-Episode B, pt.2
…Rosalia blinked. But when her vision recovered, she was no longer in the closed and gloomy theater in which she had chosen to spend her afternoon. Its four walls had been replaced by rows of trees that spread out for as long as she could see. Its high and ornate ceiling had given its place […]
”The masks have fallen” Photo-Episode B, pt.1
It was one of those spring days where nature itself seemed to conspire for your happiness. Rosalia woke up quite early that morning, she is one of those people who enjoy their routine and find relief in the eternal repetition of their movements. So she made her favorite drink, black tea with two spoons of […]
Overthinking my overthinking
Overthinking. A rather imaginative term to describe excessive thinking. Or perhaps even better I would say, overanalyzing. Over everything. You are considering and calculating every parameter in a way that probably stresses-confuses-harms you rather than leads you to a conclusion. And the truth is that I can confirm that. You see, I consider myself one […]
Interview with Akis Kapranos from Midnight Express: Redefining the light in our lives
Looking back on the main event of TEDxAUTH for 2022, those of us who were lucky enough to participate in it in some way, have a bittersweet feeling, on one side the feeling of bliss, on the other nostalgia. Iris left and took the rainbow with her, leaving the hazy sky in shades of gray. […]
True crime: Consumerism of Crime
How the commercialisation and narrative glamorisation of violent atrocities contribute to the ethical corruption and hybristophilia of true crime consumers? The genre of books, movies, and podcasts that we recognise as true crime has established itself within pop culture as a product that provides a graphic description of true crime stories for the consumer. The […]
Act like a girl
This text is for you. For you who are a mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, aunt, niece. For you who are a wife, a partner and a friend. For you who was born as or feels like a woman. For you who are a woman. Yes, for you who are a woman and along […]