The soul is individual, it is personal, and it is intimate. It lies behind the skin, muscles, and bones. Or maybe it is in all of them, in every pore, every tendon, every calcified matter. It is what makes us human because it connects us to each other. Because it is the individual, personal, and intimate that brings us closer, joins us, unites us. There is no connection without soul.
We started backwards. For what is soul, letting her words express everything we could say to introduce her. We would only have written carefully thought lines that could never do her justice, nor justice to the words she offers us, in a perfect symbiosis that turns everything into poetry.
Lígia Gonçalves, journalist. Storyteller for love. She knew she wanted to be a journalist at the age of eight, and has never ceased to pose questions or tell stories since then. As a journalist and editor, she specializes in fashion, women’s rights issues, and the LGBTQIA+ community. She launched Elle’s website in Portugal and for the next five years was the publication’s digital editor. She later took on the same role on the website of Vogue and GQ Portugal. Lígia currently works in editorial freedom to choose the stories she wishes us to tell.
