The interview of the month is about social problems in the Surinamese-Indian community in the Netherlands. This time I talk with Shiwani Sewdajal about LGBT, menstruation and parenting. Although there is still a stigma on these topics in Dutch society, they are more or less accepted and discussable. In contrast to the openness of discussing …
This month’s interview is about changing the social stigma of divorce. I am interviewing a beautiful 40-year-old woman. She studied criminology and works as an outpatient counsellor. In a world without corona, she likes to eat with friends and family, dance, learn to make snacks that she also likes, and she enjoys watching horror movies …
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Two years ago, I attended a personal development class in university. All attendants were divided into smaller groups. I sat with a young man and woman and we had to introduce ourselves. I remember that the girl was telling that she suffered from a burnout and her parents were supportive. We asked her more questions …
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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 a documentary on Netflix about the stigmatization of menstruation in India. In the documentary, there is a young Hindu woman named …
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