Ms Informed Newsletter: Geert Wilders, Aggressive Humanism, and a right-wing Europe?
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Shownotes
The Guardian on Holland’s rising star
The Guardian Geert Wilders in his own words
The Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast on Wilders
CNN on Geert Wilders wining the election
Al Jazeera on banning of the Veil in Netherlands
France24 on Wilders and the PVV
IPS on A far-right EU?
COMPAS on Why the Netherlands voted for Wilders
ZDF on the Zentrum für Politische Schönheit’s Deepfake Olaf Scholz video
Art Collective Zentrum für Politische Schönheit’s website
More on their idea of Aggressive Humanism
London Review Bookshop Podcast: Kehinde Andrews on The Psychosis of Whiteness
This week’s distraction
This weeks distraction is the investigation by human rights groups into a death at a Kenyan Del Monte pineapple farm.
”Human rights groups are investigating a death at a Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya after a man’s body was found in a dam there last month.
The body of Peter Mutuku Mutisya, 25, was discovered floating in the dam on Del Monte’s plantation near Thika on 17 November, four days after friends said he had gone there to steal pineapples.
The developments have been uncovered in a joint investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). They follow allegations published in June of brutal assaults and killings by security guards at the farm, which is the single largest exporter of Kenyan produce to the world.
A postmortem commissioned by the police gave Mutisya’s cause of death as drowning and identified “no obvious external injury”. It was also attended by a doctor paid for by Del Monte who wrote his own report.”
Read more in the Guardian here.
This week Madhvi read
This week Madhvi read Susan Sontag’s On Women. It’s excellent!
This week Rina watched
This week Rina watched Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate on Netflix. This documentary looks at the queer scene in Berlin in the lead up to the Third Reich. I only just started and it’s so interesting already!
This week’s inspiration
This weeks inspiration is Sam Smith. We need more voices like this, more breaking of gender stereotypes on big stages like this, and more great entertainment like this.
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