[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_50 November 18, 2024Diary, Etty Hillesum, 1941 - 1943 While tidying up my bookcase, I came across a small notebook I used as a diary. Taken by a melancholy curiosity, I started leafing...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_49 November 17, 2024The production and embodiment of respectability, Malathi De Alwis, 1997 The role of the Christian missionary was the same as in any colonized country: education was used as a...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_48 November 17, 2024Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva, 2020 In my twenties, everyone around me went in and out of relationships like hamsters in a laboratory maze; it seemed there was nothing...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_47 November 16, 2024Silences, Emily Dickinson, 1860 - 1865 When I think of Emily Dickinson, I think of her life inside a room; I think of daylight switching on and off on...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_46 November 14, 2024Iliad or the poem of strength, Simone Weil, 1939 - 1940 Often, when you have experienced a series of difficult situations, and yet another disappointment comes, you wonder, "Why?"...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_45 November 13, 2024Two in one flesh, Lucetta Scaraffia e Margherita Pelaja, 2008 I don't believe in God. My family baptized me joyfully, and with the same pleasure, I opted out by...