Category: Writing
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Freelancer Burnout
As someone who lives in Europe but writes exclusively in English, I cherish the networks I’m able to build online. One of the smartest moves I’ve made in the last year was to join the StudyHallXYZ community of freelance writers and media professionals. It’s full of many wise and supportive people who are leading discussions…
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Media freedom in Kurdistan
I grew up in a time and place when freedom of expression was a given — which is why witnessing the increasing threat to media freedom in Europe and around the world has been so difficult to grasp. For the last several months, I’ve had the privilege of working on the DW Freedom project, a…
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On Swearing (and Why Germans Love the F Word)
Perhaps one of the most shocking things about globalization has been how widely spread English swear words have become. The words that were banned from my mouth as a child are not censored out on the radio in Germany and as American culture infiltrates everything, they’ve made their way into the average German’s mouth without…
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#museumselfie
The ways museums have tried to increase their visibility and use social media to their advantage in recent years is endlessly fascinating to me. One of the most original — and effective — global campaigns I’ve seen yet is the #MuseumSelfie so I wrote about it briefly on January 17 (now officially Museum Selfie Day):…
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Achtung Baby: On German parenting
I’ve been waiting for years for someone to write about the German laissez faire style of parenting, and finally, Sara Zaske has. I got my hands on Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children and reviewed it for The Cut. Ever since journalist Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bébéhit the…