Publications 

How much do you actually know about Black people? In an ideal world, asking this question would not be necessary. But as targets of systemic discrimination, microaggressions, outright racist hatred and victims of stereotyping, many Black people, including myself, wonder how it is possible that being Black remains a foreign reality. In non-Black spaces, the knowledge about Blackness is limited to the entertainment industry or the occasional fact about slavery. While one can ar

Songs, trends, and aesthetics from that year are resurfacing as people try to channel the vibes of that era. But the more I see people romanticizing 2016, the more inauthentic and rehearsed it all feels. This collective nostalgia we are feeling isn’t for the sounds and colors of 2016. What we are actually yearning for is a time when social media was actually social. Nowadays, every post on social media feels like it's trying to sell you something. Sometimes it’s a product,

Submitting my column has turned into a sacred ritual that starts with loafing, excused as naturalistic research, and ends with a cordial 23:59 email. Somewhere between, I Google “economics”, a sad hail-mary, fruitless – until today. Nestled between tired headlines on tariffs and trade deals, a subtle trend emerged. Titles with “economist” fell into two categories: “Economists say you should (...)” and “Economists were wrong about (...)”. To gauge public opinion, I turned to R

For every student that loves live music, it’s gonna be a very expensive year, because we’re living in the hay-day of concerts in the Netherlands. If you just take a look at the Ziggo Dome’s agenda for 2026, you can see how incredibly full of big artists it is. It just came off of a full start of the year, with five comeback concerts of the Dutch hip hop collective New Wave, and an impressive show by Dave. The coming month, there are legendary performances coming up by Hans Zi

“I’ll never be happy again.” Maybe you have whispered this as you anxiously walked through Wilhemina at 16:30 – everything already dark. Maybe you screamed this as you strenuously biked through the freezing rain that’s clamping onto your already cold and pale skin. Maybe you thought this as you prepare your typical pasta pesto… for yourself… on Valentine’s day. Wintertime in the Netherlands is dark and stormy and not in the “fun rum and ginger beer” way. The cold, lack of sun

I hate scary movies. I have never understood their appeal. In my mind, it makes no sense why people would willingly sit through two hours of jump scares and underlying tension just for everything to end (usually) well. For you to go back to your normal life — a relatively boring one in which (hopefully) no serial killer with a ghost mask is chasing you, and no clown is hiding in the gutters to kidnap your brother. And to do this for fun!? Incomprehensible. Alas, isn’t this w