Alleen ik weet wie ik ben

door Merel Tuitert
Extravert, enthousiast, aanwezig, vrolijk, oversekst, gezellig, best veel aandacht nodig.

Reading is resistance! Book review – Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

by Sorina Bularca
Reading has always been one of my ways to revolt against this fast-paced world. A cup of coffee, some fuzzy peaches (the flat kind), a big cup of water and 50 pages later, I am disconnected from the horror that my room is a mess, and that I should probably be studying. Usually, I like to tell myself that all this reading is going to transform me into a very well-versed person, but the truth is that I still stutter when I try to talk, and I still find it extremely hard to make sentences in which I don’t make grammar mistakes. However, I will not stop.

Being biracial

As a child, race and ethnicity were issues far removed from my mind. It wasn’t until my teen years that I realized that having a white mother and a black father meant that I was right at the center of two different spheres racially, and because of their different cultural backgrounds, also ethnically. The older I got, the more I realized that the importance of race was more prominent than what I’d initially thought.

An in-depth talk with Berlin-based art collective ‘Curated by Girls’

Curated by Girls is a Berlin based art collective that seeks to challenge the contemporary stigmas surrounding womanhood. Curated by Girls aims to destabilize the norm by showing us a new femininity, fused with progressive ideals and new imaginaries.

Caught between gender and a hard place

With the rise of the internet came the dawn of self-discovery, and I learned of people who did not conform to the gender binary. Still, they – we – are very much caught between a rock and a hard place. To conform, and to live our lives according to who we truly are.