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UCU: Home of the Blaccent
I am not Black, I am a UCU student By Marvella Zimbiri, on behalf of PoCCo It’s officially the beginning of my third and final year at UCU (finally). It also marks the third year that I’m the only darkskinned Black woman on campus. So let us state a problem that I have written about many times in this column: Where are all the Black people? You could argue Utrecht is a very white city, and sure, there aren't as many of us here as there would be in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, etc
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Nadie puede desaparecer del todo by Marina Marián Rodrigo
*This column was written before the release of the film. Spain is on a roll this year, but with the many highlights, there are a comparable number of lows to address. One of the most pressing is the migrant crisis in Ceuta and the tensions it’s causing with Morocco and among Spanish people, really testing us as a nation. Similar to the rest of Europe, Spain is sadly seeing a rise in far-right ideologies among younger generations, fueled by racism, xenophobia and homophobia. T
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Is Looksmaxxing Capitalist? By Jill Veerman
While Sexual Market Value (SMV) is an established part of the female habitus, the magnitude of modern aesthetic upkeep really became visible when boys started punching themselves in the face. This generation's real-life American Psycho, popular streamer Clavicular, has promoted “Bone-Smashing,” hitting your face with a hammer to improve your jawline, since his teens. And Clavicular isn't niche. Longevity influencer Bryan Johnson reportedly spends $2 million USD annually on hi
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Brainwashed: Debunking Neuroscience Myths By Phileine de Widt
“I’m having major brain fog.” Maybe you have said this after staring at the same sentence in your textbook for ten minutes without absorbing a single word. Maybe you thought this when you hiked the three million steps to your top Kromhout room and immediately forgot why you were there. Maybe when you opened your laptop to write an essay and somehow ended up “working on the formatting” for two hours. When our brains feel like they have been replaced by a bowl of lukewarm insta
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