This blogpost started as a comment underneath It Never HappesIn Your City, written by Envy Fisher (Lost in Translation), but kept growing until it was too long to post as a comment. It Never Happens In Your City refers to the shooting/attack in a tram in Utrecht on the 18th of March 2019. Envy describes how a mundane day is turned upside down when the 'unthinkable' happens in her city: a (terrorist?) attack. She chronicles...

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The heart was made to be broken, so why not give it an extra push? I was very tempted to make this playlist just a loop of Jeremy Jordan singing Don't Speak (my a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e favourite version, if not the only correct way to sing it, including passive aggressively hushing the band). But there are just so many amazing bittersweet tunes, it would be a shame to not mention at least one or two of them....

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Crafts Council Nederland (CCNL) organised a Meet-the-Masterclass with Bas Kosters, and I was there! I was invited to tag along because of my interest in craftivism and alternative knowledge production. CCNL is a Dutch platform that protects, preserves and shares knowledge of craft-practices that otherwise would be 'made forgotten' because it does not 'serve' our neoliberal 'knowledge-based' society. More about that soon... ;) Through organising workshops such as Meet-the-Masterclass, CCNL tries to keep craft exchange...

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"Out with the old!" you shout while gleefully shovelling your dreary old wardrobe into a garbage bag, throwing it over the neighbours' fence and strutting off to the shops to fall in love with the newest pearls and gems. I get ya! Unfortunately so do many more who, with similar glee, dump about 235 million kilograms of clothing a year to make way for the latest season (and that's only the estimated number from tiny-winy...

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BOOKS! Some like them, some love them, some need to chill and actually read them. 2019 is when we finally are going to tackle the endless or perhaps even infinite tbr-pile by, surprise, reading what's on our shelves instead of what's in our (online) baskets. This year I challenged myself, my mother and sister to go through our 'library' and pick up books that have been waiting there for us ever-so patiently. In this blogpost...

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