Category: society

  • Creating Controversial Content

    Photo & Editing: Dave Greensmith, 2012 Controversial content can raise awareness, right? Often it does. A “Fuck” in the title is almost a guarantee for clicks and reads, isn’t it? And when you utter a controversial sentence, you can assume that a huge discussion will break loose, right? Controversies polarise and that’s why they often…

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  • #prayfortheworld

    My dears, the posts I promised you are either in the making or were already finished and timed. Regarding the events that took place IN THE WORLD during the last days everything else falls silent. Therefore, today once more a poem of farewell. In silent memory. “With every breath we take and every move we…

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  • In Memoriam

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar translated from the German original Since death has taken you away from me I learned how fragile life can be. Life’s journey we all share but seldom there are hands that care. Now we think it’s broken, the bond that once was so strong, but no one can…

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  • Prison of Perfection

    Perfectionism is a prison Competition is a cage Reflection often ends in rage and weeping in wisdom. Embrace your perfect imperfections and compete with yourself to leave the cage, reflect upon your rage until you weep and become wise. Wisdom reflects upon the competition with perfection after the rage turned against the cage that once…

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  • Head Holiday

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Photo & Editing: freshandjuicy An endless to do list. One task completed, two others added. The thought about all the things you would like to do (again) if you just had some time again. But first the washing has to be done, the house has to be cleaned,…

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  • Can we ever make it right? Against constant blaming and shaming

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Photo & Editing: No bilis It is noon. Coffee break. I’m scrolling through Facebook. In the newsfeed: a friend liked this photo. The picture shows a German TV hostess. She wears an outfit consisting of a jeans blouse and jeans trousers in the 70’s style, you know, a…

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  • Welcome to the Relaunch of my Blog!

    Dieser Eintrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar My dears, welcome to ginalaventura.com. As it is sometimes time to tidy up, clear out, re-accessorize and to decorate at home, so it is the case with the virtual space you call your own as well. So I welcome you to my freshly refurbished, decorated and restructured blog.…

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  • Sex sells

    Being a female author I somehow managed to write this bestseller containing bits and pieces like “I was lying in bed in our shared flat, reading a book, when somebody knocked at my door. I answered with a “yes” and my housemate Trish sneaked in. She was in her nearly see-through nightdress. With her very…

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  • Do you think you ever thought a thought

    Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar Do you think you ever thought a thought that nobody else thought before? That even never was thought of before in the whole history of our mankind? Do you think you ever had an idea nobody else had before? Might there really be anything entering your mind which…

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