How Gender Inequality enshrined in Law contributes to Statelessness
It is the worst possible thing to happen to a human being. It means you are a non-entity, you don’t exist, you’re not provided for, and you count for nothing.
A peach among coconuts, or a coconut among the peaches?
Back when I could socialize freely, I was once at a dinner-party and among the small-talk introductions I casually asked a French couple how long they had been together, for me it seemed like a normal exchange of information, but according to their facial expression the question had caught them off-guard.
Cross Cultural Relationships – Do you speak each others love language?
Chances are if you are reading this – you may have also lived in several other countries before, and perhaps some among you could even call yourselves ‘serial expats’ – this is the new demographic in town and one that’s set to keep on growing. Along with global mobility comes increased exposure to other nationalities, cultures, religions, ethnicities…
Breaking the Law(yer) : A Change of Career
The expression goes a little something like this: ‘Do a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life’.
To be essential, or nonessential: that is the question.
The dreamers are paying the price for taking the path less traveled but 2020 has shown the creative sector is anything but ‘nonessential’.
A Diary of My Self-imposed Social Media Ban
It’s no secret I enjoy the odd insta story, a Facebook scroll at quiet intervals of the day, a quick pic of my lunch if it is looking particularly instaworthy.
A peach among the coconuts?
At the epicentre of Europe, many Luxembourg expats will have had the chance to work with a plethora of nationalities, and so navigating cross cultural norms is all part of the average working day. Back when I could socialise freely, I was once at a dinner-party and among the small-talk introductions I casually and perhaps…
The Hierarchy of Importance according to news values : what makes a story newsworthy?
In 1973, Norwegian professors Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge came up with a criteria for what deemed a story as newsworthy. The key question they asked themselves was ‘how do events become news’?
Love in the time of corona
From “covidivorce” to “coronalingus” – let’s ponder the (changed) notion of love in a global pandemic.
Winter is coming
Not that I had much of a summer (in the traditional sense summer usually entails sunshine) but the swoop into Autumn has been particularly swift this year – seasons changed from one day to the next which to me was shocking because 2020 has lasted precisely three million years.
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