In het herdenken van de afschaffing van de slavernij in Nederland is de Javaans-Surinaamse geschiedenis onderbelicht. De Rotterdamse theatergroep LUSU wil daarin verandering brengen met de voorstelling Duizend Dagen waarin de feiten en emoties van deze verzwegen geschiedenis naar boven komen. — Als witte Nederlander kan ik erover meepraten, ook ik begreep tot een aantal jaren geleden niet hoe het kan dat een Indonesisch uitziend persoon uit Suriname komt. Het gebrek aan kennis bij mensen zoals ik is een van de frustraties die luid en duidelijk naar voren komt in het Duizend…

Four lessons I learned through the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program — Black Lives Matter “Media diversity” have become buzzwords. Even “inclusion” is a tainted word now, and let’s not even start talking about the abbreviation “DEI.” …

The recommendation system on Netflix suggested a new documentary series to me and since I love documentaries I almost immediately clicked on playing ‘Ancient Apocalypse’, without having read any context about the series. As usual, I watch something and then at some point start researching it, out of curiosity about…

Climate change impacts the most vulnerable atolls on our planet first and the future of the islanders is a global responsibility, says Climate Envoy Tina Stege. — Stege is working on securing a future for her kids and her people, as she writes in her Twitter profile. Her people are the people of the Marshall Islands, an independent island country near the equator in the Pacific Ocean. …

President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of the US in Afghanistan with a deadline on the twenty-year anniversary of 9/11 this year. “It’s time to end America’s longest forever war and it’s time for American troops to come home”, as he put it. Dutch investigative journalist Bette Dam has lived…

“She just ignited my curiosity in a way that I had not experienced before” — Craig Foster Before I press the play button to watch the documentary “My Octopus Teacher’’ I read that filmmaker Craig Foster just recovered from burnout when he decided to go into the ocean every day…

Racism isn’t a new construct in this world for people of colour — Michelle Obama The American news and talk morning television program The Today Show broadcasted an interview with attorney and author Michelle Obama and part of the conversation was the response of the former first lady to the…

If recent years have taught black journalists anything, it’s that public embarrassment appears to make our bosses better hear us. — Wesley Lowery I was about to share an image on Instagram of a group of women protesting and holding up the sign with the text ‘We’ll be less activist…

It must be the full moon that brings up so much emotion this week, I caught myself thinking at my home in Bali where the calendar is based on the lunar cycle. Balinese spirituality attracts lots of Westerners looking for healing themselves in some sort of way. There are different communities of foreigners on the island, those who believe in detox but not in masks, those who enjoy the Bali life without realizing their privilege, those who organize parties to increase their Instagram following without complying to the COVID-19 rules and together with all that, people who have opinions about all those people, from a ‘morally charged Western point of view’, including me myself and I.