I have always been compromised with my education. Since I was a child, I was always carrying books from here to there trying to devour their content. My childhood was not particularly abnormal: Accidents with the bicycle, fights with my brother, typical rebellion and summer loves. Costa Rica, as part of the basic rights for [...]

I remember how much I cried. I was reading the newspaper, as part of my media analysis, and the words were hurting me. It happened years ago and I am still able to recall some of the facts, phrases, photographs and even diagrams related to my work. It was a research about media re-construction of [...]

Memories come and go. Indeed, what we remember is always a mystery. We could have certain details stock in our head.  It is like a collage of smells, places, faces, lights. There is this popular belief that we are not able to forget. I think it is fallacious. We forget, we didn’t notice maybe, but [...]

I remember it. It is probably one of the best memories I have got. I was sitting in a dark room and she was performing a role. She had two young adult sons and a husband. Her name was Mary and she was addicted to morphine. I remember that I cried, many times. Years later, [...]

I have had addictions. Television, for example, has played an important role in my life. As a sociologist who works with communication and mass media, television was part of my daily scientific schedule: News reports, reality shows, documentaries, entertainment shows. I watched it all. However my new life in Germany has faced changes and one [...]

I am traveling in a train from Bonn to Berlin. It is the first time in weeks that I have time to write this blog. The last month was simply chaotic and the blog was not in my list of priorities. It is complicated: I like to write and to share my ideas about the [...]

Current events in our planet could be read as a warning. The forest wildfires and the heat wave in Russia are possibly linked to the monsoon floods in Pakistan and India. Brandenburg suffers today the same kind of problem and the authorities have an alert in other cities, like Dresden. I still remember the news: [...]

Society is our created environment and through our laws and ideologies we pretend to control our desires and to repress our instincts. We pursuit happiness and pleasure, but society tends to establish a range in which we could move, rules that we could not break, principles and social values that we have to follow. Every [...]

Suddenly the people were living forever and the sense of life was lost. There were no reasons to work, to maintain social boundaries, to understand the value of time. Is it death what moves our societies? The question is quite interesting. I was sitting in the Spinnerei, an old cotton factory located in Leipzig that [...]

In 1969 Christopher Street in New York was the scenery of the first uprising of homosexuals against police assaults. Since then, gay and lesbian groups have fought for the right to recognition and equality: Legal marriage, adoption, inheritance or the possibility to express affection in public spaces. Last weekend, Berlin celebrated the diversity of sexuality. [...]