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17 februari 2021

Masculinity going awry in From Miyamoto to You

Peter Breedveld

Actress Aoi Yu is a chunk of furious anger in a confronting film about the aftermath of a violent rape.

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15 oktober 2019

Five more Japanese movies to look out for

Peter Breedveld

Yakuza violence, elderly love, a useless Jesus, a depressed woman and tea with the great late Kiki Kirin. Five Japanese movies I saw at the Amsterdam branch of the Camera Japan film festival.

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17 maart 2019

‘Christchurch’ is an act of white supremacist terrorism, not a mass shooting

Karim Bettache

Forty-nine people were killed in an attack inspired by a racist ideology, but hey let’s call it a mass shooting again.

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3 juli 2018

Refugee crisis? What refugee crisis?

Hassnae Bouazza

Don’t be fooled by the hawkish, apocalyptic talk about the migration or refugee crisis. There is no migration crisis. There is, however, a moral crisis.

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28 april 2018

The paradox of migration

Hassnae Bouazza

Most Moroccans will see me as a westernized, probably diluted Moroccan. And Dutch people they never ever saw me as anything else but Moroccan, as the other.

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17 april 2018

The sex worker’s guide to the internet

Petra Kramer

As it gets harder for sex workers to pursue their business on the internet, here’s how to protect yourself from the evil surveillance capitalists.

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1 oktober 2017

Designing inclusive cities

Hassnae Bouazza

If you put people in ghettos, don’t be surprised they turn their back on you. Build cities that offer a space for everybody, regardless of colour or bank account.

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16 april 2017

‘Western neo-colonialism empowers Islamic extremism’

Tayfun Balçik

Muslims should emphatically distance themselves from violent Islamists, because they are hijacking their religion, says Bangladeshi writer and activist Parvez Alam.

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