Black Lives Matter - see their site and check out twitter #BLM - is a great social justice movement. As a European living in the U.S.A., you cannot help but notice that institutionalized racism is still very much a a thing. Maybe even more so...
Now that Dia de Los Muertos - a very interesting celebration of the Dead that is practised by a lot of Latinos and Chicanos and Halloween are over, it's time to kill some joy and look at the various ways in which these holidays are...
Watching Dutch Television in San Francisco: 2 stars Dutch television is not known as quality television. Dutch people are known for being stingy, and in combination with the imagination of, among others, John de Mol, this resulted in the Dutch inventing – some years after Orwell...
Drinking Coffee to survive University Drinking coffee as a way to survive however gets only two stars. Whenever you need your coffee the most – in the aforementioned mornings – there’s a queue before you that is an American sized an XXL. While still sleeping –...
Drinking Coffee as a way of Living Flywheel Coffee Roasters is the place closest to my home and the place I prefer to sit at to make homework. Their cappuccinos are amazing, their personnel ticks all the obligatory “working at hipster place” boxes, and they have...
Yesterday there were protests at my hometown university yet again. De Nieuwe Universiteit formed a picket line in front of the of the aula, where the opening of the academic year would take place. Students and teachers were protesting in favor of democracy and transparency at the...