Tag: Village

“[Ours] is a culture in which sexualized violence, sexual violence, and violence-by-sex are so common that they should be considered normal. Not normal in the sense of healthy or preferred, but an expression of the sexual norms of the culture, not violations of those norms. Rape is illegal, ...

Located in the Alto Mijares county, Fanzara is a small Castellón community in the hills inland from Valencia City. The village, surrounded by mountains and sitting on the banks of the River Mijares does, like many others in the region, have a history dating back to the times when the Moors ru...

After a two-month hiatus from publishing on Medium, it’s good to be back with a monthly challenge contribution I’m so excited about, I may — for the first time — submit more than one piece on the topic. I’m pretty sure I’ve said it elsewhere, but streets are op...

Disney’s The Santa Clauses’ Winter Wonderland on the rooftop of Pier 17 is receiving negative feedback from local parents. Many have taken to social media to complain about various aspects of the attraction. One issue is the size of the ice rink, which parents describe as “tiny.&rd...

Vancouver-based GBL Architects has completed a 300,000-square-foot building in one of Vancouver’s oldest neighborhoods, Strathcona. The area, historically one of industry, now features a mixed-use development called Strathcona Village, with spaces for residential living as well as light indust...

AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It runs up the coast of North America from Florida to Nova Scotia. You probably know it as the Gulf Stream. From Canada it takes a jaunt eastward to brush the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland. Once it hits the Irish coast, it ...

The last couple of weeks I have been exposed to the terribly ghastly promos of a terrible ghastly Marathi show called Jau Bai Gavat (Let us go to the village). This show takes city girls (pampered and entitled as per the promos) to a village and makes them slog and sweat labouring over waking u...

Are you a city dweller? You’re not alone! Our global urban population has reached 56% and is expected to soar to 70% of all people by 2050.¹ With our world’s human population to reach 9.7 billion by then,² this shift in where we live will have a profound effect on&nbs...

There’s only one language that makes injustice look like Pandora’s box: all that’s good and beautiful cruelly flickered away, but there’s a faint sense of hope that survives against all odds. It’s the language of music, preserving scars of the past as amber hugging a fl...

As a child, one of my favourite places to visit on holiday was Blists Hill Victorian Village in Shropshire, England. I loved the Victorian architecture, the dress, and the way of life. This place presented an opportunity to immerse myself in Victorian culture and experience it all first hand. I v...

The narrator is an outsider, both as a man and as a caste hindu from another town, in a Adivasi land slowly devoured by the mining mafias. The Mining company powers from faraway, Systematic violence of the state, religious powers, casteists of the villages destroy the lives of an extended family the...