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Floor Hendriks MSc. is Teaching and research assistant at Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

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Keep It Clean Day! Your contribution to a cleaner ocean

It is Keep It Clean Day! The area that really could do with a good cleanup is our ocean and beaches. Large research studies now focus on the ‘plastic soup’, and local initiatives are equally encouraging. In Dutch we even have a new word: Grondstofjutten.

Floor Hendriks • September 18, 2015

A new boost for feminism

The word feminism has negative connotations. Yet, the stereotypes of feminists as ‘man-hating’, unsexy, complaining women have recently been shaken by Emma Watson, Beyoncé, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How did they give feminism a new stimulus?

Floor Hendriks • November 25, 2014 • 6 comments