Tag: Awareness

We've all heard this before from our very basic Gozitan moms: second hand clothes are worn out and dirty and people will talk if you wear second hand clothes don't tell people you wear second hand clothes etc etc etc. The ranting could go on for hours. In this blog post, I intend to fully… Continue reading Second Hand Clothes: the myths and truths →

Before Michigan, I had never really experienced mental health issues before in my life. Or well, I thought. Michigan taught me many things and one of them is that mental health is an issue that needs to be given a lot of importance in one's everyday life. I'm going to be an open book here.… Continue reading The Taboo on Mental Health →

Happy Saturday! I'm a day early with this week's blog post, but only because today is a very important day. And no, it is not because today is my birthday. Today marks the day that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. As a kid, I always thought that my birthday was special because it was… Continue reading The Truth Behind 12th October →

A brief history lesson. After the genocide of the Jewish people during WW2 by the Nazis, the Jewish community all over Europe, who had been suffering from anti-Semitism for centuries, decided that it was time to leave Europe and return back to their Holy Land provided to them by God. Palestine. In the beginning of… Continue reading Boycott Eurovision →

On the 3rd of December 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The migrants were originally from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. Approximately 360 deaths were reported. This happens every day in the Mediterranean Sea. An organization called Comitato Tre Ottobre was organized to commemorate the… Continue reading Comitato Tre Ottobre →