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Curves with Reach
When journalism mistakes a body for an explanation Six million followers on Instagram are not a misunderstanding. They are not a lucky accident or a trick of light. They are scale. And scale unsettles institutions that once decided who mattered. When Jutta Leerdam declined to give interviews in the Olympic mixed zone, the reaction was……
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Coldly Forgotten
How Children Disappear Inside the American Dream The photograph of Liam Ramos travelled the world in January 2026. A five year old boy in a blue rabbit hat, a Spider Man backpack on his shoulders, held by armed ICE agents. His arrest was framed as shocking, yet it was not an anomaly. It was the……
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Bluesky Bubble Stage
Bluesky likes to present itself as the morally superior alternative to X, provided you stay in line and tune your opinions to what the bubble considers respectable. It began with a single short post. No analysis, no opinion piece, no call to action. Just an observation. “More than 30,000 deaths in Iran within two days.……
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Iran, but via Israel
On selective activism and looking away while Iranians fight for their freedom Last year I wrote about Iran as a country where women who step out of line are punished with rape, flogging and the gallows. That essay was not about isolated incidents, but about a system. About a state that deploys violence as a……
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The Uncounted Child
I walked a great deal in Cairo when I lived there. I carried a camera, but more importantly I moved on foot, because a city only reveals itself when you cross it this way. I walked through wealthy districts and through poor ones. Through alleys where sheep wandered among the rubbish, along the corniche by……
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Free Palestine, not now
In the second week of October, international and Dutch media published reports on what was unfolding in Gaza after the ceasefire with Israel. Not rockets or airstrikes, but Hamas returning to the streets to reassert its authority. According to Haaretz and the Times of Israel, dozens of Palestinians were arrested and executed on accusations of……
Essays on power, framing and forgetting by Domicela Heijmeriks
