The name of the conference in Dublin was “Re-thinking anti-racism Practice in Adult Education” and from the getgo I wondered what we would be rethinking? Why would I rethink anything that has to do with racism? What’s there to rethink? Then I walked into the intro-session -fashionably late and looking handsome doing it- and met…
By Marvin Hokstam AMSTERDAM — The tiny North Holland town of Weesp is currently paying homage to a peculiar part of its history, through an exhibition that narrates the stories of Africans who worked for the town’s dignitaries in the 18th century. Among these remarkable men who left African traces in Weesp, but whose faces…
By Marvin Hokstam PARAMARIBO — Wrath really hath no fury like a woman scorned. An adulterous drug dealer learned this the hard way earlier this month. Police say they arrested Giovanny A. (25) for narcotics, domestic abuse, assault, destruction of government property and resisting arrest, after they caught him red-handed physically manhandling his girlfriend, in…
Als ik het huis uitloop staat er een meisje bij de buren voor de deur. Ghanees Volle tas op de grond met allerlei spullen erin Bosje bloemen steekt bovenuit. Maar ik kan zien dat ze gestrest is. Telefoon in d’r hand alsof ze iemand niet kan bereiken Buren natuurlijk kerk, dus ik denk ff checken…
It’s not a good thing to admit to doing, but fuck it: I hate these simpledick motherfuckers who walk around with their selfie sticks snapping pictures of themselves and their self confident grins that say ‘look at me doing shit and being great’. Pompous has gotten a new meaning. What kinda level of voyeurism must…
Don’t be a dick I had just moved to the Netherlands after I found that I had crashed dramatically in the Caribbean. Broke, unemployed, depressed and shit. Down. Looking for back up. I was at De Dam in Amsterdam with my son. No matter what, I had a little boy to entertain, so we were…
Duck and roll Zig and zag Dance around in the ring Be where your enemy does not expect you to be Be where your enemy isn’t yet Sun Tzu taught us as much in The Art of War: “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and…
