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A year in personal failures: how I didn’t single-handedly stop racism within feminism or in The Netherlands

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

I. “My feminism will be intersectional” redux I set myself up for failure. I know. I like big, unachievable goals that I will, all on my own, conquer. Because I am a sucker for failed end of the year balances. Because when this time of the year rolls by, I sit and ponder on what […]

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Europe and the politics of Neo-Obscurantism and violence

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Yesterday was a tragic day in Europe. Death and violence have swept the continent in two episodes that might, at first hand, seem unrelated. In the Belgian city of Liège, a man threw hand grenades and opened fire on the crowd at the city center’s Christmas market, killing four and injuring more than 100 (of […]

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If you protest racism during Black Face season in The Netherlands, you will be beaten up and arrested

Monday, November 14, 2011

[Content warning for very racist images, links to videos of police brutality and depictions of State endorsed racism] Ah, my home, The Netherlands. Tourists from all over the world wax lyrical about the tulips, the windmills and the widely available weed. What these tourists hardly ever get to see is how institutionalized racism works in […]

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Roma women in Europe: the silenced, underreported gender oppression

Thursday, November 10, 2011

European countries are always praised for the strides they make towards gender equality. European nations consistently rank on top of quality of life rankings and measurements. Moreover, the EU is held as a sort of modern gold standard for the promotion of human rights and the values of “reason and enlightenment”. Gender equality and anti […]

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MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Now picture this: me screaming the above. Angry. VERY ANGRY as a matter of fact. Screaming this at my computer screen. Screaming it at nobody and everybody. At you. You, person I might have never heard from who might have not even commented on this blog or any of the other publications where I can […]

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