The first Pride March was held in 1970 in New York City, and since then, June has become a celebration of identity and hope throughout the world. Utrecht has its own Pride, which features a boat parade and street parties all over the city. This year, it was on June 6, but there was another Pride event that weekend, even closer to home: our own campus’s festival! From June 4 to June 7, QueerCo hosted an on-campus Pride Festival in collaboration with over fifteen other committ

In your time at this college, you will likely hear a lot about how “UCU is a bubble, and you should try to break it from time to time by seeking out entertainment or hobbies in the city”, etc., etc. I certainly found it true that, with its lovely, enclosed campus and relatively small community, this place can lull you into thinking that you don’t need anything else (groceries be damned; that’s what silent dinners are for). But I don’t want to talk about The UCU Bubble™. The p

Energy for Refugees is a foundation that aims to alleviate energy poverty among refugees and other displaced people around the world. The organization is run by volunteers, students mostly, and we have teams in four cities: Delft, Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht. The organization is growing rapidly, as we are also creating new teams in Eindhoven and Enschede. However, we would love to share what we have been working on here, in Utrecht. First, a little more about Energy for Re

As we often talk about, social media needs to be limited, or at least closely supervised by some framework. But I think it must be limited in a way much greater than most people think. The most worrying problem with social media lies not in the harmful consequences that we experience today, but in the world that it will guide us into tomorrow. As it stands, social media is a self-reinforcing destructive mechanism. While starting as a ‘social’ form of media, it has transformed

My apologies to anyone who has heard me complain about not being able to watch Eurovision. My boycott this year was accompanied by a lot of self-victimization, and I made sure that anyone who I was talking to knew I absolutely hated not watching it. But no one forced me to boycott Eurovision. In fact, it was me who pushed my family to refuse to watch the show. To be honest, very naively, it felt like the European Broadcasting Union was trying to hurt me personally. Why else w

Curaçao has created one of the greatest fairytales in football history. The island, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Southern Caribbean Sea, has a population of around 158,000 people. After beating Jamaica in the final of the qualifiers, Curaçao has now debuted at the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, and became the country with the smallest population to ever participate in the tournament. Both the fans and players have been praised as s