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Beyond Our Bodies

Margot, Paris, France, 2017 'It’s hard to identify to its own skin when you’re born in a so called female body. Because women are mainly represented from fake and unreal prospectives in movies, books, magazines… To win the right to be represented they first have to be judged as ‘feminine’ and ‘pretty’. The definitions behind these terms being really limited, these women are expected to have all the same body, the same attitude. The body has to be young, thin, without muscles, without hair, without scars and without stories… They are not persons anymore but some beauty allegory. Disembodied. The attitude has to be smooth, soft, light, ethereal, kindly, harmless. From persons they become empty shells, while their being of flesh and blood with a unique story is being suppressed. This femininity is the negation of the person. It’s unreal and unreachable, and toxic as it is dissociative. How could one identify with this, make the link between this representation of femininity and a real body? While there is nothin

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King Felipe at the Board of Trustees' Meeting of the pro-RAE Foundation

King Felipe VI (c), the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos (l), and the Director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado (r), during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Pro Real Academia Española and subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) and the lexicon of the Real Academia Española (RAE) into the Google ecosystem, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, on December 12, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Don Felipe presided today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of this institution, whose main mission is to channel the support of society to the Royal Spanish Academy, subsidizing its work, so that it can effectively develop its function of service to the Spanish language and the subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) and the Lexicon of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to the Google ecosystem. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez / Europa Pr

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King Felipe at the Board of Trustees' Meeting of the pro-RAE Foundation

King Felipe VI during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Pro Real Academia Española and subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) and the lexicon of the Real Academia Española (RAE) into the Google ecosystem, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, on December 12, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Don Felipe presided today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of this institution, whose main mission is to channel the support of society to the Royal Spanish Academy, subsidizing its work, so that it can effectively develop its function of service to the Spanish language and the subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) and the Lexicon of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to the Google ecosystem. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe at the Board of Trustees' Meeting of the pro-RAE Foundation

King Felipe VI (c), the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos (5l), and the Director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado (5r), during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Pro Real Academia Española and subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) and the lexicon of the Real Academia Española (RAE) into the Google ecosystem, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, on December 12, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Don Felipe presided today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of this institution, whose main mission is to channel the support of society to the Royal Spanish Academy, subsidizing its work, so that it can effectively develop its function of service to the Spanish language and the subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) and the Lexicon of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to the Google ecosystem. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez / Europa

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King Felipe at the Board of Trustees' Meeting of the pro-RAE Foundation

King Felipe VI (5l), the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos (4l), during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Pro Real Academia Española and subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) and the lexicon of the Real Academia Española (RAE) into the Google ecosystem, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, on December 12, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Don Felipe presided today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of this institution, whose main mission is to channel the support of society to the Royal Spanish Academy, subsidizing its work, so that it can effectively develop its function of service to the Spanish language and the subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) and the Lexicon of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to the Google ecosystem. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe at the Board of Trustees' Meeting of the pro-RAE Foundation

King Felipe VI during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Pro Real Academia Española and subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) and the lexicon of the Real Academia Española (RAE) into the Google ecosystem, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, on December 12, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Don Felipe presided today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of this institution, whose main mission is to channel the support of society to the Royal Spanish Academy, subsidizing its work, so that it can effectively develop its function of service to the Spanish language and the subsequent presentation of the incorporation of the definitions of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) and the Lexicon of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to the Google ecosystem. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nuclear minister eyes standards for reactors' lifespan

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, a minister tasked with handling Japan's nuclear crisis, speaks during a group media interview in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2011. Hosono said that the government needs to set definitions and standards for how long existing nuclear power reactors should be allowed to operate before they are decommissioned.

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Fighting terrorism a tool for U.S. to implement hegemony: Afghan expert

STORY: Fighting terrorism a tool for U.S. to implement hegemony: Afghan expert DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kabul 2. various of the U.S. 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): NAJIBULLAH JAMI, Professor, Kabul University 4. various of Kabul 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): NAJIBULLAH JAMI, Professor, Kabul University STORYLINE: In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Najibullah Jami, an Afghan political expert and Kabul University professor, said that fighting terrorism has been a tool used by the United States to strengthen its hegemony. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): NAJIBULLAH JAMI, Professor, Kabul University "Terrorism in general is a phenomenon that U.S. has different definitions due to their political interests and goals. U.S. has been using terrorism as a tool to invade and defeat free nations to ensure its interests." Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., the United States accused Afghanistan of harboring Osama Bin Laden, the leader o

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U.S. Disinformation Governance Board paused after widespread criticism

STORY: U.S. Disinformation Governance Board paused after widespread criticism DATELINE: May 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. STORYLINE: According to a recent report by The Hill, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has suspended its recently established Disinformation Governance Board. The board was set up with the stated goal to "coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security." However, the launch of the board a month ago drew widespread criticism from even within the American government. According to a CBS report, U.S. Senator James Lankford complained about the Board, saying "we don't have definitions of what [the Disinformation Governance Board] is. We don't have boundaries on what it does. Why should we not have suspicions on this?" According to a report by New York Post, hearing the news of the pause, U.S. Representative Mark Green tweeted that "the dystopian 'Disinformation' Governance Board had no place

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Nuclear minister eyes standards for reactors' lifespan

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, a minister tasked with handling Japan's nuclear crisis, speaks during a group media interview in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2011. Hosono said that the government needs to set definitions and standards for how long existing nuclear power reactors should be allowed to operate before they are decommissioned. (Kyodo)