On gender, diversity, and feminism
By Anna Papalexiou
In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel Yesteryear, published earlier this year, a trad wife influencer – a term short for ‘traditional wife’, used to describe a growing online movement promoting the return to domestic and submissive roles – named Natalie Heller Mills wakes up one morning in 1855.
In this episode, Nanette Ashby is joined by Dr Anna Geurts, a historian whose research sits at the crossroads of gender, disability, race, and the history of travel. Anna’s recently published book brings together years of archival research into diaries, letters, and memoirs to explore how 19th-century travellers from the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and beyond made themselves at home on the road.
door Skyler O. Lalieu
In een meesterwerk geregisseerd door Floor Houwink ten Cate volgen we The Actor terwijl hij vast komt te zitten in een maar al-te-bekend web van machtsmisbruik en grensoverschrijdend gedrag op de werkvloer. In een grijze waas tussen fictie en realiteit staat Florian Myjer, met een regelrechte blik op het publiek.
By Rijn van Well
Dancer from the Dance is often referred to as a classic of gay literature. It is about a thirty year old man entering the gay circuit in New York in the 1970s.
Door Noa de Kievit
Het hing op een bordje naast de lerarenkamer van mijn basisschool. Een rode cirkel eromheen, een streep erdoor. Verboden. ‘‘Waarom?’’ vroeg ik aan de leraar. ‘‘Omdat ‘ja, maar’ brutaal is,’’ zei hij.
By Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan
Magical realism, a literary mode in which supernatural or extraordinary events are presented as ordinary parts of everyday reality, is often understood not only as a literary genre but also as a political strategy for engaging with a history marked by violence, erasure, and silence.
by Júlia Vicente
In a world that profits from diposability, what does it mean to repair a piece of clothing? This article considers the environmental and feminist implications of overconsumption and the increasing popularity of fast fashion. It also explores how choosing to repair rather than replace items can be a personal, political and collective act of resistance.
by Lola Riley
I woke at 10 and fell late outside a library in Amsterdam where
colleagues and I read archives of lesbians from the 70s who bit the world to change
before their teeth were cut.
by Noa de Kievit
Colonial archives are never neutral repositories of the past. Rather, they are shaped by regimes of visibility and erasure that determine which subjects can appear as knowable historical actors and which lives remain partially absent from the historical record.
by Sadaf Javed
With the global rise in authoritarianism, civil liberties across democracies are taking a hit. While most democratic governments have historically tried to suppress dissent or systemic change, the threshold of the state’s tolerance to criticism has significantly lowered in the last decades. India was once heralded as the world’s largest democracy.
by Nanette Ashby
Lyon, France, 2nd June 1975. More than 100 sex workers occupied the Saint-Nizier Church demanding to have their voices heard. They insisted on the release of ten sex workers who had been jailed for solicitation just days prior, as well as the cessation of police harassment, fines, abuse and stigma attached to their work.
by Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan
The figure of the “witch” has historically functioned as a socio-political construct used to discipline individuals who threatened dominant religious, patriarchal, and racial orders. In early modern contexts such as the Salem witch trials, accusations of witchcraft operated as mechanisms of social control through which women who transgressed religious and patriarchal expectations were marginalised and punished.
