Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…
AN IMMERSIVE LOOK AT THE LIVES CONVERGING ON AN ACRE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN OXNARD. Every month in this county, hundreds of people over 60 open their doors or cars’ trunks to a box of food, and often there is a flower on top. These gifts are dahlias. It’s thanks to the head of the…
Three feminist communication professionals, reflect on the stereotypes that the media and advertising create about the ideal of femininine putting women in conflict with their own bodies. What is beauty? The RAE (Real Academia Española) says it is “the quality of beauty and person or thing remarkable for its beauty.” Beyond these two meanings, the…
The residency of the Catholic Order of San Juan de Dios, located on calle Sagasta, in the monumental heart of Seville, is home to 80 residents, all in their seventies, eighties, nineties and even beyond. Just as important as the residents and the workers are the 32 volunteers who make many of the activities organized at…
Since 1996, Danza Mobile is a space of creation that unites the arts and intellectual disability. From their rehearsal studio under the bridge of Crito de la Expiración of Seville, they rise the motto of the overcoming and use art as an instrument of personal development.
The association La Solana Ecuestre is 19.5 kilometres outside of Seville. It is a space dedicated to equestrian therapy where the light envelops all those who enter. It all started with four women, and today, seven women are working at the association. This is how, in her own words, three of the four founding members…
After five days of partial halts, the outsourced cleaning personnel of the University of Seville achieved an agreement that improved their working conditions. “Let’s go upstairs and I’ll tell you all about it. It is too cold today to stay out here,” says Ana Tejero, while buttoning up the black cardigan she is wearing over…
Every year since 1994, from the months of June to August, Vacaciones en Paz (Vacations in Peace) brings Saharawi children ages 7 to 12 to many different Spanish towns from the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They are placed in host families with whom they try new things, form special bonds and escape the heat…
ESPAÑOL / download PDF EACH NOVEMBER, SEVILLE’S LGBT FILM FESTIVAL TAKES OVER SEVILLE. ALMOST ENTIRELY RUN BY VOLUNTEERS, THE EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER DOZENS OF MOVIES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD TO TELL DIFFERENT STORIES RELATED TO LGBT LIFE. ANDRÉS, THE DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL, SEEKS TO SHOW ORDI – NARY LIFE AS EXPERIENCED BY THE LGBT COMMUNITY. A…
ESPAÑOL / download PDF THE PARISH CHURCH OF SAN MARCOS, IN THE NORTHERN PART OF SEVILLE’S CASCO ANTIGUO, IS HOME TO A COMMUNIT Y THAT STRUGGLES TO KEEP THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL ALIVE AMIDST AN INCREASINGLY SECULARIZED SOCIETY. “GIVE ME TWO WHITE LILIES… I like the fuchsia, too.” A middle-aged woman’s voice emanates from inside the…
