Category: Language
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Poetry, yoga and uprooting. Kikidorinen and a search that gives it unity
I lived the uprooting of my country as the uprooting of my writing. As if pulling up by the roots a vital power that had no fertile ground in another language. After some time I developed a personal writing in English, that I was able to keep expanding thanks to this website. However, the power…
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The Handmaid´s Tale after eight years: how far from reality?
The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale was finally released last April: after eight years, it ends a powerful and brave story about inner strength and resistance. However, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s work to the big screen will be continued in the spin-off The Testaments, based on the sequel novel by the…
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A little fire: two years blazing
Migrating is an intense experience, full of challenges and surprises. New worlds and significant losses. One of the biggest is the one of the native speaker status. For me, the written word was always the main way of expression and tool work. When I arrived in Australia in the beginning of 2023, the feeling of…
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Why do we keep writing?
What is the force that keeps us doing something like writing? Which is the real reason why we insist on putting one word behind the other, while the years run away and nothing beyond that has come? Do we write to get readers? I do not think so. Together with the question about if I…
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Learning a second language: language and migrant experience two years later
The process of learning a second language is long and never linear. However, two years after I left Argentina, I can tell that my English has really grown and strengthened. Australia has been an intense, hard and also fun school, challenging and pushing me all the time beyond my limits. A second language will never…
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Back in the wave of the web
What makes the difference between science and faith is that a scientific statement has to be open-ended and capable of being superseded by later research: that´s the thing I most remember from when I took the subject Philosophy at the university (the author is Popper), and maybe it is one of the reasons why I…
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Migrant communities and uncertainty in times of crisis
For migrants and travellers, online communities are a good place to find information about the countries or cities they are evaluating to go to: visas, costs, jobs, and the experiences of other people who have gone before. However, people are asking not for information, but for advice about their specific situation. -V., 39. “Me and…
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What do you do? I am a specialist in beginnings
Most people sooner or later find a place to remain. For any reason, for the last 8 years I´ve been moving, staying for a certain period in a place: and when I thought I was taking roots, something unexpected happens that makes me move again. Those who are fixed in a place have a lot…
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Writing to inhabit, and why this website
Writing has always been for me a way of inhabiting, of recognize myself: thus inhabiting a language necessarily implies writing in it. Writing is an exploration, a way of appropiating the foreign language. And the opening to the second language revitalises my writing: the impossibility of counting on it was a desolate loss, that I…
A little fire 