IN CONVERSATION WITH RACHEL GILLETT Black Panther – the Utrecht Experience. On February 14th, 2018, my partner surprised me with a Valentine’s day film date to see Black Panther, the Marvel film starring a black superhero, a black anti-hero, and a mostly black cast. [1] I was thrilled. I study race, popular culture, and representation, and I had been following the advance hype for the film obsessively. As a personal…

IN CONVERSATION WITH LEANA BOVEN The museum’s colonial foundation One could look at the museum as being an active entity, or an urban actor. The museum could be seen as agitator and the space it occupies as a place where political activism can develop. Museums can engage in acts of representation as intervention, and – at least in the Netherlands –  lectures and debates concerning societal issues are more and…

IN CONVERSATION WITH CHLOE DIVERS With the MOED team I visited Atria, the institute of Gender Equality and Women’s History and one of MOED’s partners. Because MOED aims to draw attention to the interrelatedness of different struggles for equality, I decided to delve into the archives of Atria to find out more. Art and cultural production are central to MOED, which is why I focused my research on a specific…