How do you feel, staying silent in your privilege? Do you know your silence is complicity? Or will you plead ignorance when this is all over?
Tag: writing
Madrid x Palestine Rally: 2 December 2023
On Saturday December 2nd, I took my camera to the manifestation supporting Palestinian liberation which marched along the streets of Madrid, starting in Atocha and ending at the doors of the Foreign Ministry.
Manifestación Madrid x Palestina: 2 de Diciembre 2023
El sábado 2 de diciembre llevé mi cámara a la manifestación en pro de la liberación de Palestina que marchó por las calles de Madrid, saliendo de Atocha y terminando en las puertas del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación.
Bodega Cuatro Rayas Newsletter (Mirabelle Selects)
So don’t wait for a special occasion—make any moment special with a bottle of organic Verdejo, a white wine that will bring the warmth of the Spanish summer to you, no matter the weather outside your window.
Thirty-Five
I always thought I’d be dead by thirty-five. I don’t know where this fixation came from, what triggered it, or why I believed it, but the imagined certainty that I wouldn’t live to see forty defined my 20s and early 30s in a very real way. My friends in university would tell me to stop… Continue reading Thirty-Five
My Nomadic Life: Force Majeure
There are things beyond our control. Things that force us to change our plans, to be flexible and spontaneous, things that humble us, that remind us that the world keeps spinning regardless of what we’re going through, things that make the impossible possible and the possible impossible. These unpredictable factors are known as force majeure—a… Continue reading My Nomadic Life: Force Majeure
My Nomadic Life: A Crazy Idea
For years I’ve said that my craziest ideas have been some of my best ideas. Studying for a semester in Peterborough, Canada when I was sixteen; moving to Brisbane, Australia before my eighteenth birthday to study journalism… and then transferring to creative writing after only two semesters; moving to Sri Lanka on a whim and… Continue reading My Nomadic Life: A Crazy Idea
My Nomadic Life: Life & Loss on the Road
It’s been nearly a month since I wrote a new post about this new chapter of My Nomadic Life, even though when I left Colombia I told myself that this time I’d be more constant about updating my blog—not like in Brazil, where it fizzled out after a few months as the daily distractions of… Continue reading My Nomadic Life: Life & Loss on the Road
My Nomadic Life: If I can Make it There…
Though I'd been dreaming of going back for years, I didn't expect to return to New York City in 2021. But ever since I left Colombia (again) in August, things haven't been exactly going to plan (in a good way) and I've been relearning how to embrace the unexpected. That's how I ended up on… Continue reading My Nomadic Life: If I can Make it There…
The Colombian Curse: A Love Letter to my Country
Being born in Colombia —a violent and lovely land of duality, of rancid poetry, marvellous heartbreak, impossible beauty, and sequestered abundance— is a curse.
Laura Restrepo Ortega 