Filling the Void: Exploring Female Connection in Loneliness Feature by Zoë Abrahams As I get off the metro, I find the streets of Rotterdam deserted. The wet ground reflects the flickering stoplights alerting me to cross the road. It has just stopped raining, but the air is still sticky and weighs heavy on my skin.Continue reading
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Thread of Life: The Female Perspective in Greek Mythology Feature by Josephine Monnickendam The Moirai, the three Greek Goddesses of Fate, are not yet ready to cut the thread of life for women in Greek mythology. The sisters, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, are busy spinning, measuring and deciding over the different threads. Whose narrative shouldContinue reading
Dear Poet, Stay in Your Lane Feature by Laurine Tavernier Does poetry stop where politics begin? Well it does, according to Nabilla Ait Daoud, a politician for the Flemish-nationalist right-wing party N-VA and member of the Council for Culture of Antwerp. She recently rejected one of Ruth Lasters’ poems, Losgeld (‘Ransom’), as a “city poem”Continue reading
Can Noah Can’t Even Even Be Talked About? Feature by Maria Teresa Cattani How does literary freedom function in a school with a specific, defined identity? Are restrictions logically, morally and ethically justifiable? Lately, this discussion has been all over the internet regarding different cases. This article will focus on a case that tookContinue reading
I am everything: Literature Crossing Ethnical and Sexual Borders Feature by Dick Hogeweij I am half Surinamese and half Groninger, my ancestors came from China and France, I love men, I am brown and have blue eyes, a Dutch mother and a Surinamese father. This is the way Raoul de Jong introduces himself in aContinue reading
I Had a Miscarriage: A Panorama of Perspectives
By Angela Kroes After finishing Jessica Zucker’s debut I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement I logged onto Goodreads to see what other readers thought about it. Five-star reviews flooded my screen. Many readers felt validated, understood and moved by Zucker’s words. I, too, had been moved. Never having experienced a miscarriage myself, I was glad that those who had had found comfort in the memoir’s pages. Reading the book, I became aware of how manyContinue reading “I Had a Miscarriage: A Panorama of Perspectives”
G is for Grief
They said two years, and so it was planned. My father’s death and my own grief started two and a half years before his heart stopped beating. He died by euthanasia, choosing death after being slowly broken down by the cancer and its treatment. I knew the date and the time he would die daysContinue reading “G is for Grief”
When Summer Ends
By Juul Kruse Summer sometimes feels like a long day that will never come to an end. During those never-ending days, sitting in the sun whilst my shoulders burn and my hair is still wet from the water, I can’t imagine – and I mean that in a very literal sense – that it willContinue reading “When Summer Ends”
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