Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo
I am an enthusiast of free spaces of expression created through social media, especially Twitter. I tend to follow the trending hashtags, I read the comments and participate in writing replies expressing opinions that are considered bold in our societies. I mean views...
Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo
Absolute loneliness. It’s the second sensation that overcomes you after a violent attack. The first one is feeling muerta en vida, dead even though you’re still alive. That’s how I felt on May 25 in 2000, after being tortured and raped by three of the men who’d...
Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo, Stories of Others
On 1 December 2014, a friend tagged me in a Facebook post. When I clicked to see what it was about, I froze in horror. It was a post by Interaz – International Azerbaijan Television, a major national television channel broadcasting from Russia, according to the...
Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo
I could never have imagined it. When I took my three-year-old daughter to nursery school one Monday morning, her teacher asked me why there were posts on the internet claiming that I was having “sex with n*****s”. Nor could I have ever imagined that one of my female...
Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo
In my career as a foreign correspondent, I have witnessed the strange psychology of the mob in many conflict zones. I have observed at close range how a mob forms. How a mob can so quickly resort to violence. And how that violence can so easily result in a death or...