Note from the Editor

Hi, my name is Virginia Vigliar and I am the founder of this publication. In the last fifteen years, I have been studying and working on gender, feminism and social justice- as an activist, journalist, writer and editor. This experience and the work I continue doing on my personal growth and emotional intelligence brought me to understand that, truly, the personal is political. I don’t mean thinking of it as an external truth, but integrating it into our own life, this takes time and work.

Every choice we make contributes to a bigger system or is part of a system of conditioning we are exposed to. This system is made of narratives and societal expectations that surround us and have overwhelming power. All we need to do is stop and think, question, listen to other people’s reality, and talk about stuff acknowledging that our reality and surroundings condition us. This does not mean becoming paranoid or judging ourselves, it means becoming aware. This is an exercise that I have noticed takes a lot of work on both a personal level and a public one, but it works if we accept our changes and stop stigmatising our mistakes. Most political movements started with a small group of people speaking to each other and dialoguing about their issues, some of these went on to change the world.

I really do believe that one of the most important things we can do as individuals who strive for change is to become aware of narratives and how they can condition us. So, I created this publication to offer the space to share reflections and work to try and take the layers of conditionings off and reflect together.

• Our articles have a reflective tone, we aim to catalyse dialogue and discussion.
• The catalyst is always a personal experience — something that happened that triggered thoughts, your reality, something your read that day, a sentence you heard that sparked inner reflection — and turn it into a reflective discourse about feminism or social justice. You can talk about how it made you feel, but also use data, statistics and academic studies to back up your argument.
• Articles are 800–1000 words
• Themes: social justice, feminisms, white privilege, racism, disability, human rights, trans rights, culture, social conditioning.

Are you ready to dig into narratives and conditionings together?

Start with our articles here