I’ll be giving one of the talks at the Betweter Festival in September. The event will take place at Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht and is an occasion that brings together science, art, and the public. […]
Category: engagement
Contribution to Article in Dub Magazine on Fake News
I was one of the five Utrecht University academics to share some of my thoughts on science, media, and public trust in the era of “post-truth” and “fake news” for this article the University’s DUB […]
Snapchat’s Digital intimacy report in the Daily Mail
Along with a number of experts consulted from around the world, I contributed to a report commissioned by the social media platform, Snapchat. The focus was on how friendship and emotional intimacy are mediated through […]
Crisis Magazine is Online
Last week Crisis Magazine went live. The online magazine is an initiative undertaken by myself and Saskia Baas and the response so far has been overwhelmingly positive. We’re extremely thankful to all the authors in this first issue, which is dedicated to Syrian displacement. Here’s the magazine’s editorial mission:
Opinion piece on intellectual freedom and the rise of the right wing at universities
Today this piece of mine was published on a Dutch political opinion site. I’m adding the English version of it here: The UvA should not have offered Jordan Peterson a right wing “safe space” Last […]
Report: Identity and Exile edition on Iranian diaspora
This month, a Twitter troll reminded me of this publication from 2016 that I co-authored with Prof. Halleh Ghorashi for the Heinrich Boll Foundation. He used it to call me a regime apologist for the […]
Our piece about Syria solidarity for Salvage Magazine
Saskia Baas and I wrote this piece in light of the recent escalations of violence in Syria, and the problematic selectivity we observed in the response to these events among prominent leftist political publications and public figures.
Press Release: Wilders protesters were unlawfully arrested
This week, the lawyer who is working on the cases of myself and the nine other women who were arrested in January this year for staging a protest against Geert Wilders got in touch with some news. He let us know that the the public prosecutor had confirmed in an email that our cases had been dismissed on the grounds that our arrests had been unlawful. I’ve added an English language translation of the press release he drafted together with us below. Please feel free to spread it as you see fit. This outcome important for a number of reasons…
Op-ed in the NRC Handelsblad: No feminism without anti-racism
Catherine Black, Domitilla Olivieri and I wrote an opinion piece that was published today (under a different title) in the Dutch national newspaper, NRC Handelsblad. I’ve posted an English language version of that piece below, as well as an interesting update:
Speaking at Anti-racism Demonstration in Amsterdam
Just got a call from Comité 21 maart. Looks like I’ll be one of the speakers at the anti-racism demonstration this Saturday on behalf of Feministen in Verzet. It’ll be one of several demos going on […]
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