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ARE WE EUROPEThis Is What a Generation Sounds Like: HannaFrom Minsk and London, a story about the meaning of freedom. Hanna Komar, a poet, was jailed for her activism in Belarus. This week, she tells us what it’s like to move from a place where people have to fight for basic rights, to a place where people take them for granted.This is the fifth episode from our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.A beautiful visual version of this podcast will be available soon! In the meantime, check out the first visual pod...2022-09-0928 min
The Europeans | European news, politics and cultureIt takes more than two, babyWhen Remco Yizhak Cooremans moved home to the Netherlands after many years abroad, the authorities told him something shocking: his son wasn't legally his son. This week, we hear about Dutch plans to bring the law up to date with the realities of 21st-century parenting. We're also talking about Roman trash and minimum wages you can actually live on.
Remco is the chairman of Meer dan Gewenst. If you're interested in the multi-parenting law, you can catch him speaking at De Balie in Amsterdam on June 16, and it's being streamed online too. Details here.
This...2022-06-1636 min
The Europeans | European news, politics and cultureHannaFrom Minsk and London, a story about the meaning of freedom. Hanna Komar, a poet, was jailed for her activism in Belarus. This week, she tells us what it’s like to move from a place where people have to fight for basic rights, to a place where people take them for granted.
This is the fifth episode in our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.
A beautiful visual version of this podcast will be available later this year. In the meantime, check out the first visual podcast in this se...2022-06-0228 min
The Europeans | European news, politics and cultureThe Belarus solidarity algorithmA year into the protest movement in Belarus, what are things like on the ground? This week we talk to the poet Hanna Komar about her own experience in detention, and the extraordinary "algorithm" of solidarity among women in the movement. We're also talking about Russian gas, Norwegian oil, and the magnificence of Emma Raducanu.
You can read Hanna's article, 'Sisterhood behind bars', here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Lykke Li and Robyn on Song Exploder; The Book of Reykjavik.
There are still a few tickets left for our first ever live show, in...2021-09-1636 min