Whether you are heading towards your twenties, you are already in your twenties, or you have passed your twenties a long time ago: taking care of and understanding your reproductive health is important! Your
I am interviewing Tara Mandemaker about the importance of sexual consent. Tara is 23 years old and has studied BA International Studies and MSc Latin America Studies at Leiden University. Last year, she started
For centuries, traditional beliefs on gender roles dictated what a woman’s life looked like. A woman’s life revolved around staying at home cooking, cleaning, and raising children. A man’s job was to work outside,
With the abolition of slavery in 1863, in Suriname, a colony of the Netherlands, the history of the Surinamese-Indian community began. In the period that followed, the Netherlands was looking for new and cheap
Over the past decades, empowerment has become a buzzword within the international development field in the same way as sustainability has. In the 1980s, the term ‘empowerment’ was coined by feminist movements to fight
Last week, I interviewed an intelligent young woman who wishes to participate anonymously. She studied European Law School and is currently pursuing two master degrees International Laws and State and Governance Law at Maastricht
Overthinking can in simple terms be explained as thinking about something for too much and too long. It causes enormous distress and suffering in our lives and is linked to psychological problems, such as
Anni-Elina has Finnish roots and was born when her family lived in Russia. She has lived in more than seven countries, including the Netherlands where she finished her bachelor’s degree in International Studies. During
Throughout history, some of the major religions have excluded women in one way or the other from religious spaces when they menstruate and attached it to the notion of “impurity.”[1] Recently, I was watching
