Amid growing youth resistance in Iran, schools have emerged as key sites of protest. In response, a new memorandum between the Education Ministry and police allows unrestricted police presence in schools. This marks a troubling shift toward securitizing education, reflecting the regime’s preference for control over reform and its deepening […]
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Catalina Villar: Mental health and repressive public morality
Through showing the impact of the use of lobotomy on her grandmother, her film “Ana Rosa” also deals with the social power of doctors, which they usually deny, claiming that their diagnoses are ‘objective’. The moral discourse on ‘normality’ always influences psychiatric categories. Surgery was used as a social control.
Migrant, feminist advocate, and passionate about the underprivileged
Having gone through stages of questioning her future vocation and numerous difficulties that followed, thanks to her strong passion and tenacity, Priscilla Anany finally brought us this great movie, her debut feature, “ChildreN of the mountaiN”. (The Prisma memoirs) Yi ZOU Due to the special features of the […]
Honduras and its diaspora: expelled or returned home
Donald Trump’s new migration policy has mistreated the migratory map, obliging immigrants to return to their countries. However, in this Latin American nation the numbers who have had to leave the United States are much lower than in previous years. According to figures published by the state institution the […]
An immigrant in exile photographing the world with anger
Julio Etchart left Uruguay in 1974 at the age of 24, escaping the repression of the dictatorship, which had twice imprisoned him, setting him free for the second time, with his passport in his hand and the idea to set off for Europe in his head. (The Prisma memoirs) […]
















