Category: Personal Essay
-
I assess my border and stand on it
In The Strenght of My Rebellion, one of the texts of the book Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana writer and academic, opens her reflection by remembering a photo in which, as a child, she is with her parents, holding hands of his mother. “To this day I’m not sure where I found the strength to leave…
-
Feeling the body
“In trying to examine one body part, I’d lose sight of another. I couldn’t imagine what I looked like during the fractured angles of sex. At the river’s edge, it was impossibleto see all of myself at once. I began to understand nakednessas a feeling.” Fragment of Primordial mirror by Ama Codjoe Because of March 8, the…
-
An unknown body
During a Saturday afternoon of beers with a friend, I do not remember exactly how the subject came up. I said, “Science is not objective, it has never been” and he, looking at me with his jaw on the floor, asked me “how dare you to say that? You are an engineer”. I understand the…
-
The world without a sense
The senses are a matter destined to produce meaning David Le Breton In the beginning, I could not smell anything at all. I thought I was part of the 40% of covid ills that lose their sense of smell for just a few days. One, two, three months after I still could not differentiate whether…
-
A non-definition
I find myself constantly thinking about one of my Philosophy high school classes, for some reason. My teacher, who was one of the most demanding and whom I remember warmly, walked through the corridors between the school chairs asking everyone, one by one, “Who are you?”. I remember thinking hard about the question, as he…