
The fire that killed 146 women in 1911 sparked a movement that helped to improve working conditions in factories across the US. Today, it is still important to remember and raise awareness regarding workers' rights. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire's annual commemoration and the soon-to-be built memorial will serve that end. (In Italiano).
You cannot rewrite the past, but you can reinterpret it, and through the images of the past we can stop and create new trajectories in the present. In the history of women photographers the material culture, brings to the fore new presences. I would like to talk about one of these, Alice Elizabeth Austen whose house on Staten Island is now a museum (Leggi in italiano)
Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed in marriages before they turned 15, 39,000 girls are forced to marry every day, some as young as eight years old. (Leggi un articolo sullo stesso argomento in Italiano)