The demographics expert Christopher Guilmoto from the Paris Research Institute for Development (IRD) has calculated that selective abortions and infanticide have cost in Asia alone, 117 million women’s lives. A UN report from 2010 makes only China and India responsible for over 85 million prevented woman’s lifes, in [more]

Brief der protestierenden Geflüchteten am Oranienplatz und der Gerhard Hauptmann Schule an den Senat und insbesondere an den Innenminister Frank Henkel Wir bitten Sie, über die Forderungen unseres Protests nachzudenken. Wir glauben, dass sie schlussfolgern werden, dass unser Protest legitim ist. Eine Räumung ist keine Lösung, denn dann [more]

I hesitated writing since a couple of days cause I was lost in complexity concerning a question which is difficult to clarify. It’s about how protest here and today could look like and why it’s not happening. It’s about how we’ve been raised to believe a lie, and [more]

In the last days of my 60days I reconsidered what my father said at the beginning, about sharing information publicly like we do here and the danger that might come with it. Well I still wouldn’t go so far to talk about danger, but I did question myself [more]

Jerry Zaks, the Broadway director tells a story of when he was a young actor replacing Austin Pendleton as the character Mostel. He had to ask for the hand of one of Tevye’s daughters and was consistently rejected and humiliated by Tevye. Tevye was still being played by [more]

I met you when I was four and you were five. The first time I saw you was in the hallway of our building. You were living with your mom on the ground floor. I was about to move in with my mom on the top floor. Soon [more]

It should be contemporary but timeless, it should be banal but profound, it should be funny but sad, it should provoke but not disturb, it should be ironical but serious, it should be emotional but not kitsch, it should be big but not megalomaniac, it should be sane [more]

I went to see a movie today. I am not going to tell you which one cause it’s not so important. What is important is going to the movies, to sit in the dark for two or three hours, to go in as someone and leave as someone [more]

Close friend, who is six years younger than me, has called me a granny lately, not a mom or an aunty but literally a granny. And only cause I thought it’s gross to wake up in the morning to go to Berghain. (It was afternoon, even grosser). It’s [more]

Sometimes or let’s say most of the time someone has put in words, form or action something you have been carrying with you forever. You stumble over it and go like: Yes that’s exactly what I meant. But before that you fight with finding the perfect example to [more]

I am definitely not an expert in educational questions and looking back at my own childhood it seems it would fulfill most criteria of what children today should be kept away from. A few weeks ago I bought a book for my Godchild. I didn’t read it myself [more]

Jean Pierre Léaud the face and actor of the Nouvelle Vague had a childhood close to the one he portrays in Les 400 coup. Rebellious and always up for some “connerie” he once stated that if he hadn’t met Truffaut he can’t imagine what would have become of [more]

For 50 Euros no sticky floors, no smell of piss, no search for food in trash, no cheap perfumes. No running noses, no growling stomachs, no coughing, no body smells, no empty staring. 50€ and non of this misery. Just a cab, skipping the poor, directly to the [more]

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The question is what happened? I refused to write, me who was determined to not skip a single day. And now a whole week of empty squares I don’t even dare to look at. A line of shame. But what can you do I’m on the countryside and [more]

Five people one car. Three students and us. One future architect, one future human rights lawyer, a future philosopher and us, older than them, so future us already. A homogenous group of strangers sharing a car. It’s a question of minutes until similarities will be shared. The female [more]

Man with gold chain chewing gum in a hurry, a couple screaming at each other, two Japanese in duffle coats carrying pizza, men in boubou, women in headscarves, two Indians speaking loud, iPods, iPads, smartphones, laptops, earplugs, Chinese newspapers, Amsterdam only 29 Euros, all escalators out of order, [more]

I saw young students on stage today and it sounded like this: Deutsche Bank is an asshole, capitalism as well, Hessel has no answers, Zizek has some but mostly a speech impediment, fair trade is a guilt relieve, we blackface but are ironical, we talk financial speculation and [more]

I want to pack my things and move out into more interesting times. To see my conceptions shatter, to find out where the rebels live. Conformity here makes me want to sleep. Lots unsatisfied, circling around themselves, lingering in space, waiting to be loved. Nothing to cry for, [more]

It’s been said that time is moving in circles and every age brings new challenges. When you’re old, people around you die and you get introduced to the finitude of life, as it gets emptier and emptier around you. When you’re my age, life is about creating new [more]

There is a little farm in our park. Maybe it’s a zoo but I like to think of it as a farm. It always reminds me of an imaginary childhood on the countryside I never had. It was feeding time when I arrived. I heard the animal keeper [more]

I take everything back I have had enough. Head’s still spinning and bored to death. Even Berlin’s rainy days seem more attractive than my bed. Human contact show me what you got I can handle you. Easy. Moments to consider: Haven’t seen as many dicks in a row. [more]

I haven’t left the house for a long time. I’m sick and that’s how I justify my abstinence from the outside world. Feeling tiny bit guilty but not really because I think it’s actually the best. If you are sick you are eligible to be in opposition to [more]

Hanno Hauenstein (hallo Hanno) wrote today about how we need to paint our future again. A couple of weeks ago I saw the new Spike Jonze film “Her” at a festival and it left a bigger impact on me than I thought at first. I was never into [more]

Today there was a coincidental 60pages meeting in Berlin. At least there were couple of people present. They shouldn’t have met, one of us suggested. There were some beautiful dramas. In one I was involved (nothing to do with 60pages) in the other I wasn’t (probably nothing to [more]

I am fascinated by what people are afraid of. It’s probably because of my parents being therapists and hearing about phobias since I’m little. Today I found out about the term Agoraphobia, pretty common fear. A friend of mine is afraid to be killed in his sleep, he [more]

“My name is Ismail Yozgat, my son has died in my arms. From 2000 until 2011 documents have been destroyed, hidden and burned. And if this was not enough the documents of Andreas T. will not be released because of irrelevance.” Andreas T., who works for the intelligence [more]

I was in Charlottenburg today and everything was very clean. People were wearing expensive winter coats and buying books in small books shops. I bought a book and walked the street aimlessly up and down and sought for someone to carry me home. But no one did and [more]

Facebook makes people now officially and scientifically-proven unhappy. The study claims that feelings of loneliness, jealousy and self-doubt are being experienced to a very high percentage. No news. That means the majority feels terrible but keeps “liking” until they hate themselves. Of course Fb’s representation of reality undermines [more]

Independence is a result of self-value I think. If you give less a damn on the judgment of others then you are either stoned or you care about what you do. Things don’t serve to compensate the “forever empty” (as Louis C.K. has named it wonderfully) inside you. [more]

She was a Party animal, her cousin said. Beate Zschäpe laughs.

There is some good advice that you just want to oppose to until you get an idea what was actually meant by it. One of these things you hear in acting a lot is called “moment to moment”. Now the mother of my friends therapist. No, the therapist [more]

It was too late to go to a restaurant and there is no food at home. I know I need to go shopping in order to have something to eat, but in this regard I will stay a dependet child. Psychoanalysis couldn’t solve everything. So I went to [more]

I wanted to raise some real smart questions on sexism in theatre and film that I had today but I’m just too tired. So I conclude: Acting just sucks sometimes.

My father sends me this photo today of him in 1968. A weird coincidence after me reflecting on iranian youth. I call him to find out whether he agrees if I publish it or not. A discussion starts. It’s for my own protection, that I shouldn’t. I sense [more]

When it comes to racism or discrimination I’m like a super Nazi. I can’t help it; it’s stronger than me. It’s physical. I’m the person you don’t want to have at a party, when someone blabbers out prejudices. I become like police. I detect it everywhere or at [more]