„Sei mutig, trau dich!“ – Ein Einblick in mein Mentoring-Programm
„Sei mutig, trau dich!“ – Diese Worte hallen immer noch in meinem Kopf nach, lange nachdem ich sie zum ersten Mal von Lia Lang, unserer Coachin im Mentoring-Programm…
Tag: Empowerment
Mentoring als Teil des Studiums – was es mir wirklich gebracht hat
Ist die Teilnahme an einem Mentoring-Programm im Rahmen des Studiums sinnvoll oder überflüssig? Inwiefern wird es mein bisher eher theoretisches Wissen erweitern? Bringt mir das wirklich etwas am…
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power – review
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…
Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
In Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, Christian Busch contests the notion of blind luck, arguing that adopting a “serendipity mindset” towards all social and prof…
Seaspiracy: a thematic mish-mash of marine injustices
Co-Written with: Lina Idrees The Netflix documentary Seaspiracy shook viewers with its shocking revelation of the effects of the fishing industry on the environment. Film-maker Ali Tabrizi’s investig…
Humans are funny
When Judge Gen, creator of the universe, reflected on the world, she tried to see what she could change. Her verdict was this: "Obviously earth is cancelled… all…
Heroines
Consider 2 movies and a TV show; ‘Hercules’, ‘Enola Holmes’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’. Random collection or the sum of my November TV experience? For arguments sake let’s…
A Technology of Empowerment and Governance: The IUD/IUS and Sexual Health Care in Toronto, Canada
The intrauterine device (IUD) and the intrauterine system (IUS) have a long and complicated history. The IUD is a contraceptive device inserted into the uterus, which serves as…
Language and our perception of reality
Language plays a pivotal role in our perception of reality. As humans, we have harnessed language as a power of great force in our existence and is something…
Love, distance and independence
I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, but I wanted to make sure I got it right. So for the past 3 and…
5 minute journaling
I actually heard about this through Emma Watson. Not that I know her personally at all, but there I was watching Vogue on Youtube and I came across…
‘Hollywood’ and Social Identity
I never normally get hooked on TV shows, I’m more of a movie person. I like to know the endings and I’m usually too curious to wait 6…
Chloe Ting, I’m taking back control!
So I did it again. I started yet another Chloe Ting workout, the ’35 day summer shred challenge’. It was going well, full speed ahead, I was feeling…
PERSPECTIVE
I’m 5 days in and the room starts to expand and grow. i’m smaller than the cat. I just wanted a glass of water but i can barely…
The uncanny predictability of precarious existence #precarity
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The two-day seminar, organis…
Strukturelle Regellosigkeit in einer überregelten WeltWas steht einer Partizipation geflüchteter Menschen in Deutschland entgegen?
Von Cordula Dittmer und Daniel F. Lorenz In den letzten Monaten mehren sich die öffentlichen Stimmen, die für die Geflüchteten eine aktive politische Rolle in der deutschen…