Can You Leave Me Alone By Jang Kapgen | August 4, 2021 Illustration: Student looking out of his room window with diary in hand. Divyashree Muruganandam, The Amsterdammer. Why we should stop expecting explanations from the LGBT+ community While I write this article, I find myself filled with immeasurable emotions and heat. Many thoughts and memories make formulating and expressing my opinion very hard, but I want to try my best to make you…
Don’t Rush Out of Online School By Diana-Teodora Gaitan| July 20, 2021 Cover Illustration: Student sitting at desk, taking notes from online lecture. Divyashree Muruganandam, The Amsterdammer Magazine reporter Diana Gaitan discusses the implications of students returning to campus education in the Netherlands, where COVID-19 infections are rising once again. At the beginning of June 2021, the University of Amsterdam sent students an email announcing an optimistic prognostic for education in the new academic…
Israel-Palestine: Through the Eyes of an Academic By Aakash Nair | July 20, 2021 “And so these are two distinct conflicts, although, of course, related, and both are ultimately centered around Jerusalem.” Cover Illustration: Jorge Fernández Salas / Unsplash Where supporting Palestine is deemed anti-Semitic and supporting Israel is deemed Islamophobic, no platform exists for the innocent on both sides to pursue justice and peace. To provide much needed political, social and historical…
The Semi-Hidden Stories of Amsterdam – PART 2 By Elisa Morand and Kira Guehring | July 14, 2021 Following up from their last photo story, photographers Elisa Morand and Kira Guehring provide more locations of the bookshelves scattered around Amsterdam. Amsterdam is more than the Red Light District and canals. There are many hidden treasures among the city’s streets, one of them being the mini libraries tucked away in random street…
The Stigma of Sex Work: Panel by the UNICEF Amsterdam and HeForShe x UvA By Kira Guehring| June 22, 2021 Cover Illustration: Attendees of the Unicef Amsterdam Student Team and HeforShe x UvA panel / Courtesy of the organizers. Campus Reporter Kira Guehring attended the collaborative panel on The Stigma of Sex Work hosted by HeForShe x UvA and UNICEF Amsterdam. Sex work is one of the oldest professions in…
Activism: The Case of Seaspiracy By Tamara Ka?uchová | June 12, 2021 Cover Illustration: Protect the ocean. Anabella Villanueva / The Amsterdammer Seaspiracy is one of the most popular Netflix documentaries at the moment. While we, The Amsterdammer, are advocates for green initiatives and protecting our beautiful oceans, we want to equip you with tools to make your own decisions when it comes to believing trendy documentaries. You have probably…
