Month: April 2021

Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely

Laura Hancock started practising yoga when she worked for a charity. It was a job that involved long hours and caused a lot of anxiety. Yoga was her counterbalance. “It saved my life, in a way,” she says. Yoga brought her a sense of peace and started her journey of self-inquiry; eventually, she decided to …

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Las mujeres frente a la pandemia y el feminismo socialista para dar vuelta la historia

En Argentina, esta situación se ve reflejada en los datos que se revelaron desde el Observatorio de Género: se registraron 42 femicidios, transfemicidios y travesticidios en 42 días de cuarentena obligatoria. El año pasado, cuando hicimos temblar la tierra al grito de ni una menos, denunciamos que el promedio de femicidios era uno cada 30 …

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South African artists struggle with Covid theatre closures

South Africa’s once-thriving cultural scene is under threat because coronavirus restrictions have made it difficult to stage public events but some artists have found new ways to show off their creativity, as Mohammed Allie reports from Cape Town. News of the closure of Cape Town’s Fugard Theatre last month was greeted like the demise of …

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How Marina Perez Simão Achieved Global Success in a Pandemic Year

Early last September, in what in any other year would be considered the dwindling days of the Hamptons social season, the mega-gallery Pace opened a joint show of two Brazilian artists at its jewel-box gallery space in the heart of East Hampton Village. Inaugurated just two months prior in a bid to cater to collectors who had …

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