Body image is often related too quickly to weight, but body issues can also be linked to skin issues, hair, body hair, skin color, sexual orientation, or age. In our patriarchal society, women are used to defining their worth around the male gaze and beauty standards that keep changing over time, making it appear impossible […]
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An Interview With My Voice, My Choice
My Voice, My Choice is an initiative that is evolving into one of Europe’s largest feminist movements. My Voice, My Choice (MVMC) started in 2024 with the aim of collecting 1 million signatures from across Europe in order to submit a European Citizens Initiative demanding that the EU ensures safe and accessible abortion services for […]
Introduction The fight for women’s liberation is a crucial step toward ending all forms of social oppression. However, not everyone is able to recognise the oppression of women to its full extent. Some might even say that equality has already been achieved. Feminist scholars, on the other hand, share the belief that emancipation from all […]
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The White Dove Complex
In the crowd, a dove, preferably white, is held in a box or a cage.A few minutes later, someone arrives with bare hands, releases the dove, and sends it away.Afterwards, the crowd claps. The media takes photographs. And we totally forget: Why did the cage exist in the first place?Why was the dove captured?And who […]
France reported two dead and hundreds arrested after the PSG Champions League win. This case of the PSG win is an example of how male violence, especially in cases of sports events, is normalized. Last year, I was watching the Men’s EURO final (2024) in a bar in Amsterdam with two other friends. The game […]
Anger as a suppressed emotion. Our last monthly discussion revolved around feminist anger and feminist rage. Rage is a crossing of boundaries, an outburst of anger; a reaction to a suppressed and ignored anger. It often happens on the spot. Anger and rage can both be expressed in very different ways; it can be linked […]
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On Cultivating Anger
Look back at your childhood. Were you allowed to be mad? Who in your family was allowed to express anger and who wasn’t? I learned as a child that expressing anger hurt more than it helped. Little girls who were dutiful were loveable and angry girls weren’t. Little girls were also responsible for managing the […]