by Eva Fernandes | Feb 9, 2022 | Social Justice
Culture is invisible. You don’t exactly realize what your culture is…until you leave it. It is the water we swim in and air we breathe. Until I left my home in the Middle East, I wasn’t particularly aware of the values which informed my every...
by Eva Fernandes | Feb 3, 2022 | Feminism, Social Justice
Ramy Has Finally Stopped Crying. His little four-year-old face is now a delicate shade of pink. His cheeks are swollen like thunderclouds threatening an imminent downpour. His older sister is stroking his long caramel blonde hair away from his forehead. Stroke,...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 31, 2022 | Social Justice
The Insidiousness Of Internalized Racism The way you speak English shapes how the world perceives you. Utter a few sentences and a keen observer may draw conclusions about your competence, class, social status, education and professional experience. The kind of...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 30, 2022 | Minimalism, Social Justice
Why is capitalism so God damn noisy? It was the first time I went to a shopping mall in six months. I was living on a tiny island during the pandemic. For months, I had not seen cars, motorbikes and certainly no shopping malls. Now, as I walked into the...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Social Justice
1. Michelle Obama ASKS for more on the road Michelle Obama tells a fascinating story in her book, Becoming. Barack had just started campaigning. While he had a team to support him, she bootstrapped her way through it. She wrote her own speeches, did her own hair and...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Social Justice
WHY do we continually allow the conversation of self-help to be co-opted by hacks and the one-dimensional one-percent who are halfway through their life’s journey and so keen to share (and monetize) their supposed wisdom? There is something more nefarious about these...