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Brainwash interview
I was interviewed by the amazing journalist Floortje Smit (Volkskrant) at the Brainwash Zoomer Radio (Brainwash Summer radio) and she asked me about music that inspired me and changed my life. I chose 3 songs that impacted my life, work, and thoughts.
- I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor’s song “I Will Survive” is for me as a phoenix arising from the ashes of the violence I experienced by my father in my youth. The lyrics gave me the courage to stand up against him and violence of men against women, girls and boys. There were sentences with extra meaning, like “Did you think I would crumble? Did you think I would lay down and die? “ My success, joy and love for life despite all the violence is my best revenge on my father’s and men’s violence. Due …
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My first TEDx talk “Dare to be Feminine”
In moments of self-doubt I use my Divine9Dance “I Am On Top Of The World” power pose, inspired by Lady Liberty enlightening the world. Also during my rehearsals for my Ted Talk this movement gave me the self-confidence to hold the torch up high for the charismatic Rise of the Feminine, to be Proud To Be A Woman, and say ‘Femininity is our sling!’ Your/our femininity has a lot to offer to the world! How do you keep your torch up high and your fire burning and connect with the feminine qualities of your womb?…
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My new TEDx Talk ‘Thank God for our Vagina’ is now available!
It took a while before it was released (TEDx USA had to give their approval… I guess the V… word makes many people nervous!!)
My first TEDx Talk was in 2014 (Dare to Be Feminine), and this new one goes further. It’s a special one as I gave it right after my ski accident, with crutches and brace…
And it’s about breaking taboos… about femininity and masculinity…
Watch my TEDx Talk ‘Thank God for our Vagina’ below.
Enjoy and remember to leave me your comments below. I love reading you!
Kaouthar
TEDx Linz 2019 – Thank God For Our Vagina!
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Want to be Happy? Learn to be… unhappy!
The conditioning has changed, people no longer respond to specific fears, no today it is
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How to heal trauma accident with Divine 9 Dance (with dance video)
Exactly one year ago I had a heavy ski accident. The effect on my legs was ravaging.
Today I am perfectly healed, jumping, dancing, jogging, swimming…
The doctors were astonished because I recovered quite fast, without any operation, thanks to many things, and mostly thanks to the dancing. It was a miracle!
The difference that made the difference was dancing to release the trauma out of my system, immediately after the accident. The sooner you do it the better, before it gets installed in the memory of our body cells.
I made here a film, right after my accident, where I practiced some of the Trance Goddess Dance to release the trauma. It’s a very intimate video, where I needed lots of courage to expose myself in such a vulnerable state.
My wish and intention are that these dance movements …
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Vlog: Kaouthar at WIN Conference Rome 2016
Kaouthar tells a bit more about an exciting new free(!) project coming soon, while at the WIN Conference in Rome.…
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Oct
Vlog: Kaouthar Darmoni at WIN (Women International Networking) Conference in Rome 2016
Kaouthar Darmoni, Keynote Speaker at WIN (Women International Networking) Conference in Rome 2016…
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Sep
Are you loosing your passion and involvement at work because of ‘patriarchal’ management?
Would you like to change that?
Then start by realizing that a perfect understanding of the problem is half of the solution.
RecentlyI gave a lecture about ‘FeMale Leadership and Erotic Capital’ to a big crowd of students and scholars at the Nyenrode Business University. For many years, I have the privilege and pleasure -as assistant professor in gender & media, and later as a prolific independent lecturer and scholar- to contribute into spreading knowledge and education about Gender and Erotic Capital in the academic as well as business world’s circuit/circus.
FeMale leadership is of course a style that combines, equally, feminine and masculine qualities. The need for this new style of management is essential to achieve sustainability in business. Sustainability is not anymore ‘a nice to have’ element…it’s becoming a ‘must to have’. Even the …
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A woman is not allowed to combine, at work, brains and body power!
Personally, I experience this constant dilemma: in the academic world I was often criticized, ridiculized because of my ‘other’ work, outside of the academia: a body work with the ‘dubious’ name of goddess belly dance. Not only was it not ‘academic-intellectual’ enough, even worse: I was practicing a ‘sensual erotic dance’! Scandalous! I was bringing shame on the academia!
The same discrimination was happening in the artistic dancing world: I was not taken seriously enough as a dancer because I was ‘intellectualizing’ the dance and using it as a feminist statement.
Same story amongst the feminist circles: how do I dare pleading for women rights and emancipation by using the feminine ‘sensual’ body as an empowerment and statement tool? ‘This is ‘Vloeken in de kerk’ like the Dutch say (‘Swearing in the church’, blasphemy).
All these reactions of rejections …
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May
The Wild Woman is as endangered as the Wild Panthera Orientalis!
I just took part in a cultural event dedicated to Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) and her
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May
I realized I was about to be raped
Cologne, Germany 31st December 2015. For the ones who missed it: hundreds of women on
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Jan
‘’Mama, and if they come now and kill us with Kalashnikovs on the beach!”
During the last attacks in Paris, journalists, media analysts, colleagues, friends, bombarded me with their
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Dec
To Women in Business: “Destroy your reputation; be notorious!”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” Jelaluddin Rumi,
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Oct
The Vagina never lies
Do you know that pleasing doesn’t just drain you and prevent you from getting your
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Sep
My Body belongs to me!
That was what Amina, the Tunisian femen-iste, wrote on her naked breasts to protest against
Apr