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Deep Adaptations For These Trying Times

by Lily Cichanowicz

I resisted taking COVID-19 seriously in the beginning. Processing the scope and magnitude of the changes it so rapidly initiated and making big decisions based on rumors that continued to become substantiated went against the way that I try to navigate the happenings of our world. Only a month ago, I was dismissing the news as hype and hysteria, not believing in its urgency...

December 9, 2020
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The Food Keeper

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October 17, 2017

Mary Scherpe

Over the past decade, Stil in Berlin has played an integral role in both documenting and influencing the cultural and gastronomical...

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August 28, 2017

Tainá Guedes

Tainá Guedes promotes harmony within herself, among other living things, and in the natural environment by making mindful choices,...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 25, 2017

Marie-Louise Crona

As the owner of Okay Café in Neukölln, Marie-Louise ‘Makki’ Crona creates delicious things to share with others, pastries and home...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 12, 2017

Ruth Bartlett

Ruth Bartlett’s way of relating to food speaks volumes about how she interacts with the world around her. In fact,...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 12, 2017

Sandra Winkens

As a yoga instructor, Sandra Winkens’ disposition –both ethereal and stoic—gives the impression that she harbors a higher wisdom. Upon entering...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 12, 2017

Lillie O’Brien

Long before she became the founder of London Borough of Jam, a love and respect for quality ingredients has been...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 12, 2017

Cynthia Kambou

Growing up in an African household, Cynthia Kambou was raised on a mix of traditional plant based dishes in...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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July 12, 2017

Leitha Matz

For Leitha Matz, meals don’t just exist at instantaneous intervals. There is a clear current of continuity between one...

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Bipartisanism & Other Blunders in U.S. Political Consciousness

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

The United States today is a nation divided. We’ve all witnessed the way that both liberals and conservatives attack one another on social media at the first indication that...

October 22, 2018
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On Catalonian Independence in an Era of Global Neoliberalism

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

Over the course of the last few months, news of the Catalonian Independence movement has been elevated onto the international arena. Yet, the European Union has repeatedly dismissed it...

November 1, 2017
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Post-Truth & Late Modernity: Filling the Ideological Void

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

Post-Truth: a Crisis of the Intellectual Bourgeoisie In November 2016, just days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Oxford Dictionaries announced that its choice for...

September 22, 2017
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On the Consumption of Current Events

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

Over the summer as I logged into the fourth dimensional reality that is Facebook, I noticed something I hadn’t before. As I watched my social network ride the wave...

January 13, 2017
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January 31, 2018

Lost & Found in Translation

I never really thought much about the complexity of translation until my junior year of college when a writing...

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December 6, 2017

Vilnius, Lithuania

I imagine that Vilnius is akin to what Berlin was like decades ago. Here in Lithuania’s capital, youngsters have adopted...

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December 6, 2017

Granada, Nicaragua

Revered for its colonial architecture, its streets are lined with buildings distinguished from each other by their successive shades...

by Lily Cichanowicz
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December 6, 2017

Copenhagen, Denmark

Any savvy traveler will attest to the fact that integrating with the locals is the best way to immerse...

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Left Voice

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The Role of Grievability in the State’s Monopoly on Violence

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Left Voice. You can find it here. The Stoneman Douglas mass shooting has launched a nationwide movement against gun violence. Student activists and...

April 6, 2018
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Harnessing Anti-Trumpism for More Strategic Resistance

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Left Voice. You can find it here.  Now that Trump’s first SOTU address has come and gone, we’ve hit a milestone for reflection...

February 3, 2018
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What We Can Learn from MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

Towards the end of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shifted from the civil rights agenda for which he is remembered to a new phase in his struggle...

February 18, 2017
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About Lily

by Lily Cichanowicz

Hello there! My name is Lily. I am an American writer and editor currently based in Berlin. In the form of cultural analysis, my writing is a critical exploration of everything from the personal to the political, and my aim is to share the insights I have with my readers. My work is particularly informed by my graduate research in sociology at the John F. Kennedy Institute Berlin where...

November 4, 2015
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Latest

Deep Adaptations For These Trying Times

I resisted taking COVID-19 seriously in the beginning. Processing the scope and magnitude of the changes it so rapidly initiated and making big decisions based on rumors that continued...

December 9, 2020
political spectrum
Medium

Bipartisanism & Other Blunders in U.S. Political Consciousness

The United States today is a nation divided. We’ve all witnessed the way that both liberals and conservatives attack one another on social media at the first indication that...

October 22, 2018
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Latest, Left Voice

The Role of Grievability in the State’s Monopoly on Violence

This post was originally published on Left Voice. You can find it here. The Stoneman Douglas mass shooting has launched a nationwide movement against gun violence. Student activists and...

April 6, 2018
Photo credits: Jason Redmond / Reuters
Left Voice

Harnessing Anti-Trumpism for More Strategic Resistance

This post was originally published on Left Voice. You can find it here.  Now that Trump’s first SOTU address has come and gone, we’ve hit a milestone for reflection...

February 3, 2018
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Lost & Found in Translation

I never really thought much about the complexity of translation until my junior year of college when a writing professor, a Belarusian poet, brought in several different translations of...

January 31, 2018
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Understanding the Foundations of Trump’s America

by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Deuxième Page. You can find it here.  Pour lire la version française de l’article, clique ici ! I have to admit, like too many of us I had been sure that Hillary Clinton would win. In fact, I even wrote a cautionary, critical article a couple of days before the election about what those who align themselves with the...

January 2, 2017
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The Culture Trip

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July 12, 2017

‘Contrast Syria,’ Connecting Humanity In...

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January 2, 2017

Extreme Travels: Why Some Are Walking From Berlin To Aleppo

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January 2, 2017

Berliners Show Solidarity And Defiance In The Wake Of Terror

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January 2, 2017

Over 1000 Skulls From Germany’s African Colonies Are Still...

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January 2, 2017

GDR Brands That Have Survived Capitalism

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January 2, 2017

Everything You Need To Know About The Berlin Wall

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January 2, 2017

Shifting Tides: The Rise And Fall Of Squatting Culture In...

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August 15, 2016

10 Game-Changing Feminist Thinkers

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November 8, 2015

13 Uniquely German Words And Cultural Concepts

Social Science Works

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Progressive Neoliberalism and the Pull of Populist Politics

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

In the wake of the turbulent US election, social theorist Nancy Fraser wrote that the progressive neoliberal politics of the establishment served as a major factor in ensuring the...

April 21, 2017
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The Identity Politics of Being a Foreign Body

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

Quickly after moving to Berlin I assumed the title of ‘expat.’ Being an American expat became part of my identity. For better or worse, it was something I was...

January 4, 2017
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The Refugee Crisis Exposes Our Civil Rights as Privileges

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on the Social Science Works blog. You can find it here.  The current shift in Europe’s demographic composition towards a more diverse populace comprised...

January 2, 2017
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Berlin Logs

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Berlin Dreams: The Land of Opportunity in a Changing World

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Berlin Logs. You can find it here.  After spending a dismal four years studying sociology in the United States, I can conclude with...

November 8, 2015
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We Arrived and They Put Us in Prison: In Conversation with a Syrian Refugee

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Berlin Logs. You can find it here.  When I arrived at a bar for drinks a few Fridays ago, one of my friends...

November 8, 2015
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Tangents USA

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In the Weeks That Follow: Media Literacy and the Identity Politics of Terror

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Tangents USA. You can find it here.  The Need for Media Literacy To contextualize my thoughts on the way we form our perceptions...

February 8, 2016
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What’s the Real Problem with “First World Problems”?

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Tangents USA. You can find it here.  According to urbandictionary.com, “first world problems” are defined as “[p]roblems from living in a wealthy, industrialized nation...

November 9, 2015
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Altruism in the Midst of a Global Epidemic of Economic Exploitation

Published by Lily Cichanowicz

This post was originally published on Tangents USA. You can find it here.  Remember those commercials that used to be on TV in the 90s which played depressing montages of languid sub-Saharan...

November 8, 2015
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