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2 February 2022

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I just finished a master’s degree in gender and media.

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Hove.

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About a year.

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As an immigrant from Belgium, the NS offered me a sense of belonging.

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Judith Butler.

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Bart De Wever, the leader of the New Flemish Alliance.

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Sophie McBain’s “Mourning and Melancholia”, March 2021.

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This article appears in the 02 Feb 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Going Under