Womankind

Womankind

ANTONIA CASE

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Manifesto • What is a ‘good life’? What makes a life worth living?

POINTING THE FINGER AT DEPRESSION

Facts about the llama • “Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”

HISTORY OF THE INCA EMPIRE

FINDING CREATIVITY

Peak times in a life journey • The path is forged one step at a time, one tiny success at a time.

PROVERB

Finding flow • When Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza lost her mother some years ago, she found herself embroidering old family photographs, childhood dolls, and drawings, an unconscious unravelling of grief that continues today in her art.

DEATH OF THE MAIDEN • The great Inca empire, the biggest empire the world had ever seen at its time, had a macabre history, which has baffled archeologists for centuries.

QUEEN OF MEDIA • Doris Gibson’s name is not well-known outside her native Peru, but in her home country she cuts a figure as one of the most striking, brilliant, and influential journalists of the 20th century.

ABRAHAM MASLOW

Clara Murillo Pinto • Clara Murillo Pinto is a fishmonger who runs a stall at a fish market in Chorrillos, Peru.

Nishme Sumar • Nishme Sumar is a theatre director who lives in an apartment with her husband and two children in Lima.

Antonia Sanchez Huarcaya • Antonia Sanchez Huarcaya is coordinator and cook of the popular kitchen “God is love”, in Nueva Esperanza.

The lungs of the world • The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, supplies the world with oxygen, but slash-and-burn deforestation and gold mining is having dire consequences.

Lessons in anger • Most, if not all societies, still believe that a raging woman is off her nut.

WOMANKIND Photographers’ Award XXIII

Disappearance of public life • Many outlets for the constitution of public life have disappeared.

WRITTEN IN TEXTILES • In a small village high in the Peruvian Andes, life stories are written in textiles, where the women of Ausangate, pass down the traditions of their ancestors.

BRENDA UELAND

THE FUTURE WE FEARED IS HERE • Born in Sydney, Anouchka Grose is a Lacanian psychoanalyst, speaker, and writer based in London.

THE BREAKER OF MEGA DAMS • Ruth Buendía of the Asháninka tribe in Peru’s Amazon, is known as the woman who stopped the dam.

GEORGE VAILLANT

A WEAVING REVIVAL • In the Andes, textiles are not a hobby; they are a way of life.

WOMANKIND’S Early Morning Challenge • Womankind readers were challenged to wake up early for three days straight and to use their time wisely.

IN AND OUT OF REALITY • Jules Evans flew to Iquitos, a city in the Peruvian Amazon that you can only reach by plane or boat, the capital of the ayahuasca tourist boom - to partake in a ceremony that had unexpected consequences.

All in a wish • Lima-born artist Ernesto Arrisueño finds two worlds colliding in his series of flower paintings.

Celebrating the Womankind Community All wrapped up • Amanda White, a Womankind subscriber describes how she set up a livelihood doing something she loved.

Books • “We read books to find out who we are... an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

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