Gaia Gazzara

Writing Portfolio

Hi! This is Gaia's writing portfolio. Gaia is a passionate Italian writer with an aspiration of one day becoming a renowned journalist. Curious by nature, she likes to keep up with local and global news, always seeking new perspectives and stories to share.

Gaia graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Global Studies at Maastricht University. After that, she followed her passion for content creation, exploring different forms of information, from videos to newsletters. In October 2024, Gaia joined Secret Media Network as a Staff Writer for the Italian market, covering mostly events and news in the cities of Milan and Rome. On the side, she writes a newsletter called "Overthoughts" where she posts most of her socio-political pieces, and she occasionally contributes as a content creator to Instagram information pages such as @polis_politics.

Samples of my work in English

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The Political Manipulation of Refugee Status in The U.S.

When someone thinks about refugees, the general picture is a group of people escaping from a condition of war, famine, or persecution that is going on in their country of origin. Yet, Donald Trump and his administration seem to have a different and distorted view of what being a refugee means and the criteria that define one. On May 12, 2025, a charter plane brought 59 Afrikaners, white South Africans, to the United States, where they were granted the status of asylum seekers, with an unusually...
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The Monetization of Femininity

In a world where the sexualization of the female body generates billions of euros, dollars, money, every single day, a single app and the freedom of monetizing with one’s own body brings up a major debate. The discussion surrounding sex work shows the hypocrisy of capitalism, where we are used to seeing the commodification of everything, even the human body, but when the content is privatized and serves a sexual purpose, then the moral judgment takes over, and the person involved can be stigmati...
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Italians want to leave Italy. Are we really surprised?

The answer is no, we are not. Recently, Euractiv posted an article showing data from the prestigious EPSO AD-5 competition, where Italians made up the wide majority of applicants. 45% of applicants to this competition, which aims to fill around 1,490 positions on the reserve list for employment at European institutions, are from Italy. In concrete numbers, of the 170,000 applicants, around 79,000 candidates are from Italy. Besides the fact that, after selection is completed, the number of Italia...
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Food, Rights, and the Gig Economy: Indonesian Riders Leading the Charge

The last days of August and the beginning of September were particularly hot in Indonesia, as protests sparked around the capital, Jakarta. On the 25th of August, demonstrators started to gather in the streets right after the announcement, made by Deputy House Speaker Adis Kedir, of a guaranteed monthly housing allowance of approximately €2,650 (or $3,100) for national lawmakers. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the new housing allowances for MPs, whose proposed amount is nearly 1...
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Backlash is One Question Away

A journalist with sunglasses, three actors, and a question about political correctness in Hollywood. What could possibly go wrong? In this short piece, I will analyze and express a personal opinion on the recently viral interview with Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri, which was carried out by the Italian journalist Federica Polidoro. In the Interview, Polidoro poses a question that reads: “What have we lost in the politically correct era and what should we expect from Hollywood af...

Samples of my work in Italian

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Il Cibo è Politica

Una pasta al pomodoro. Un piatto così modesto, fatto di pochi ingredienti, facile da preparare, buono nella sua semplicità e simbolo della tradizione italiana. E se ti dicessi che, mangiando questo piatto, potresti anche tu stare inconsciamente finanziando il genocidio in Palestina? L’acqua che beviamo, la pasta che mangiamo, l’olio che usiamo, ogni alimento che consumiamo e dove lo compriamo, è una nostra scelta che va a supportare, che lo si voglia o meno, una certa politica. Oggi, è sempre pi...
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Facciamo una bimba, la chiamiamo Italia

La legge 194 del 1978 ha depenalizzato l’aborto dopo anni di battaglie femministe. Eppure, nonostante la volontà di portare a termine una gravidanza non sia reato, c’è chi ancora lo considera tale perché in contrasto con la propria visione morale. Tra questi ci sono anche coloro che, prestando il Giuramento di Ippocrate, hanno promesso che si sarebbero astenuti da recare danno offesa ad altrui, ma che scelgono di non ascoltare le richieste di chi è pienamente capace di intendere e di volere. In...

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Basic Graphic Work