Behind the camera she is determined to narrate the life of her homeland and its inhabitants. And so she has done with her films “La Machetera” and “Herradura”, which today form part of the film history where ordinary people talk about their reality and where women stand up for their […]
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Libraries and their untold stories
The local library in Southend-on-Sea was like stepping into a labyrinth it was a magical place, that seemed like the most immense building in the world to a small child. Lucy Wood / Unity News Back then the number of floors seemed uncountable but how that child loved climbing […]
Going concerns
Reading “The bloater”, a novel of less than 150 pages, is like sipping a glass of sparkling champagne after been deprived of the drink’s recuperative quality for too long. Sean Sheehan Its air of easy frivolousness feels life-enhancing, as does the wickedly delicious prose of Rosemary Tonks in […]
The elective power of women
If women in El Salvador used the power of their vote, they could reverse the trend that places them in a minority in terms of the percentage of those who occupy popularly elected positions, currently a low proportion compared to men. Luis Beatón In recent elections, women outnumbered […]
The art of loving & Get out
Coco Green and Ola Magdziarek review a couple of cinematic highlights from 2017: Maria Sadowska’s “Art Of Loving”, which tells the story of Polish sexologist Michalina Wislocka who fought for her book to be published in the late 1970s, and Jordan Peele’s “Get out”, in which Daniel Kaluuya’s African American […]
















