The beginning of IN HER GENIUS

What is Feminine Genius?
There’s no elevator pitch for it.
Its secret and unique roadmap is hidden between the lines of these conversations.

Fran Braga Pereira - protecting the future
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Fran Braga Pereira - protecting the future

The world needs protectors of the wild and beautiful. Franci is one of them - but no she doesn’t embrace a sword nor wears impenetrable armour. Instead, she uses science…

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Lucia Lantero - the power of one woman
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Lucia Lantero - the power of one woman

What does a young Spanish woman, Haiti and Persephone have in common? … This is the story of a woman who is doing what others (who should) did not dare.

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Anna Bazhenovskaya - talent is work
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Anna Bazhenovskaya - talent is work

If I told you that talent must be cultivated, that it’s not a given at birth. Would you believe it? … This photographer has a say or two about it. Read on…

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Dainty Smith - carving her own life
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Dainty Smith - carving her own life

Art-making is exercising faith. Meet this inspiring, larger-than-life, Burlesque performer whose life reminds us that every time we exercise freedom, we also set others free.

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Kate David - creating gardens of dreams
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Kate David - creating gardens of dreams

Almost as if by magic, she turns lifeless yards into the exquisite garden of your dreams. Kate’s own dreams were seeded at a young age, but their sprouting only came after many years…

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Nicole Renee - myth of beauty… rewritten
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Nicole Renee - myth of beauty… rewritten

The job of beauty is a world where the most beautiful is often disregarded - unless raised to stardom. And yet, I’ve always found the lives of models being utmost interesting and fascinating and, dare I say, full of surprises.
A model is a world of her own… which isn’t accessed through her beauty, paradoxically. And this is one of those worlds…

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Tiffany Hamilton Atkins - translator of feelings
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Tiffany Hamilton Atkins - translator of feelings

Just like about everything nowadays, yoga too is filled with people teaching a practice they don’t embody. And I have always been particular about the teachers I choose, because again: not everyone is a teacher only because they call themselves so.

Finding Tiffany in a studio in Hackney has been profound.

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the genius of my mother - Elena Bogdanovich
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

the genius of my mother - Elena Bogdanovich

One evening, I set myself up to interview my mother like I do with other women, except in person and with a bottle of prosecco between us. That evening she left the unidimensional corner of motherhood I’ve locked her in since I was born 35 years ago, to became a tridimensional, multifaceted woman.

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Paola Martinenghi - eternal next project
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Paola Martinenghi - eternal next project

I don’t believe in failure. That’s all that stayed with me of everything she said during a walk at the Flower’s Market in London on a Sunday morning. And since then, I wanted to know, how does one live when failure isn’t part of her vocabulary?

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Jess Zafarris - curiosity over judgement
Tanya Gervasi Tanya Gervasi

Jess Zafarris - curiosity over judgement

Meet the archeologist of words. Jess to me is the embodiment of a woman who thinks for herself. She doesn’t take for granted the words being thrown here and there in our society but goes to the spring of things… the place where original thoughts may be found.

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