Siela Ardjosemito-Jethoe is a cultural anthropologist, sociologist, she has now been working on diversity and inclusion at the intersection of education, culture and welfare for 16 years. She has her own training and consulting firm CtDu and makes the podcast Diversity in Check with her family, in addition to her work as an administrative advisor on Diversity and inclusion at Leiden University. As an author, she is responsible for the book Diversity in Society (2020 and 2017), and contributed to Unwritten Heritage (2017) and Superdiversity! (2013). She writes a monthly column at the Sarnami House and writes columns for Culture Press.
A good friend calls me, sounding like he wants to share and check something important. He was talking to his sister this week about the Nieuwsuur headline: Black Lives Matter: Was it a turning point or a hype? His sister stumbles over the title and notices that important parties are left out of this item and that stings. On the...
Dear Prime Minister Rutte, Dear Mark, We have met before. For you one meeting out of many, so you probably won't remember. After all, we have nothing in common, not in terms of political colour or skin colour, not in terms of our socio-economic class, not in terms of our nest, not our gender, height and possibly other distinguishing characteristics: many NOT...
Men of colour in public spaces have no value. Their lives and well-being mean nothing. Muhammed Ali said something about this very early on: 'We are not second class citizens, that would actually be great. We are last class citizens, just not human enough.'
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