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04/08/2025

Calling All Raffia Alumni! Were you part of Raffia Magazine during your time at Radboud University? We want to hear from you!

This October, we’re celebrating 40 years of Gender Studies in Nijmegen! As part of the anniversary, we’re creating an exhibition about the history of Raffia Magazine — and your memories matter.
  We’re looking for:
* Any objects tied to your time with the magazine
* Behind-the-scenes photos
* Posters, flyers & event materials
* Journal Entries, Social Media posts

Are you an artist or maker?
We’re also looking for original artworks from Raffia alumni that explore the themes Raffia Magazine covers — feminism, q***rness, anti-racism, decoloniality, care, resistance, and more
 Share your memories! Email us with your finds and submission ideas: [email protected]
Deadline: 10 September 2025 
Hope to see you at the Raffia exhibition opening at the Anniversary Symposium on the 3rd of October!

10/07/2025

🚨THE CALL IS STILL OPEN 🚨
DEADLINE: end of July
Put your pen on paper and let the words flow.

29/06/2025

🚨EXCITING NEWS EVERYONE! 🚨
Raffia is working on a new, printed RAGE zine. Let’s get to writing, and put that anger on paper! Send us your articles/ drawings/ photography till the end of July.

28/06/2025

Women for president? Let’s talk about Moldova!

Continue reading the full version on our website raffia-magazine.com or via the links in our bio!

Raffia Magazine is open to guest writers and collaborators.
Feel free to email us with your article ideas!

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25/05/2025

“On March 10th, Radboud University will mark International Women’s Day with an afternoon program organized by the Radboud Network of Female Professors and the Halkes Women+ Faculty Network. The event aims to showcase the achievements of female researchers, including studies on testosterone’s impact on girls and innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In essence, the university is giving women a platform to present their research - not necessarily because of its groundbreaking nature or its relevance to International Women’s Day, but simply because of the researchers’ gender.
While celebrating women in academia is important, this approach raises deep concern. The event highlights women’s work without addressing the systemic barriers they face within the institution. Thereby, International Women’s Day is reduced to a token gesture rather than a meaningful commitment to women’s rights and gender equality. Rather than confronting the structural issues impacting women at this institution, Radboud adopts a performative approach to showcase women while ignoring the underlying barriers they face. In doing so, Radboud becomes actively complicit in the perpetuation of sexist culture - their feminism is selective and performative, and only manages to reinforce the very inequalities it claims to challenge.”

📌Read the full article on our website via the link in our bio!

14/05/2025

Ava explores how sexism is embedded in urban planning. Cities were built for men.

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Raffia Magazine is open to guest writers and collaborators.

Feel free to email us with your article ideas!

***r care

12/05/2025

As fascism rises, many universities across the world are failing their students. Radboud is one of them.

“However, Radboud not only deflects and weaponizes social safety, but it actively fosters an unsafe environment by repeatedly relying on police force to intimidate and discourage students from protesting. By anticipatedly calling the police on campus and by closing off buildings before a protest even starts, Radboud creates tension and unsafety, for both activists and uninvolved students. The only reason that these protests are dangerous is that the executive board of Radboud University uses excessive violence instead of engaging in conversation with its own students. The executive board of Radboud is supposed to orient itself in the service of the people studying and working for this university. “

Continue reading the full article via the link in our bio. 🇵🇸

11/05/2025

”On March 10th, Radboud University will mark International Women’s Day with an afternoon program organized by the Radboud Network of Female Professors and the Halkes Women+ Faculty Network. The event aims to showcase the achievements of female researchers, including studies on testosterone’s impact on girls and innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In essence, the university is giving women a platform to present their research – not necessarily because of its groundbreaking nature or its relevance to International Women’s Day, but simply because of the researchers’ gender.
While celebrating women in academia is important, this approach raises deep concern. The event highlights women’s work without addressing the systemic barriers they face within the institution. Thereby, International Women’s Day is reduced to a token gesture rather than a meaningful commitment to women’s rights and gender equality. Rather than confronting the structural issues impacting women at this institution, Radboud adopts a performative approach to showcase women while ignoring the underlying barriers they face. In doing so, Radboud becomes actively complicit in the perpetuation of sexist culture – their feminism is selective and performative, and only manages to reinforce the very inequalities it claims to challenge.“

📌 Read the full article on our website via the link in our bio!

14/03/2025

✨Queer history is one of Raffia‘s most popular subjects, so we are excited to share this new article with you, hot off the press:

„One of the most touching items for display is a letter written by American soldier, Brian Keith, titled ‘Letter to a G.I.’ in which Keith writes to his former lover, ‘Dave’, with whom he had planned to reconnect after they had returned home from the war. Dave however, never returned to his home across the Atlantic Ocean. Within this letter, Keith opens his heart and reminisces on their time together and the plans they had made together.“

📌 Read the full review of the exhibition ”Love in Wartime“ on Raffia via the link in bio.

‼️ You can still see the exhibition for yourself in the Freedom Museum in Groesbeek till the 6th of April!

13/11/2024

✨🍿In need of a recommendation for a q***r TV series?Raffia has you covered!

“In times of growing intolerance regarding LGBTQ+ individuals, positive forms of media put q***r hearts at ease by employing q***r representation. A recent example of this is TV-series Heartstopper, based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novels. The TV-series shows q***r joy by portraying a blossoming romance between the two main characters in a positive yet complex narrative, underpinning its value as an educational tool for audiences that do not identify as q***r. This paper aims to establish Heartstopper’s pedagogical value for young audiences, teaching them that being q***r comes in as many different variations as there are q***r people on Earth.“

✨🍿Continue reading the article on raffia-magazine.com or via the link in our bio!

***rstories ***rtv

28/09/2024

Teresa Margolles’ Cimbra Formwork (2006) is a conceptual artwork addressing feminicide in Ciudad Juárez. It consists of 546 pieces of clothing belonging to women victims of gendered violence, submerged in cement. The piece reflects Margolles' frequent exploration of violence and death, drawing on her experience as a mortician. The term "feminicide" is used here to highlight systematic gender violence influenced by political and economic conditions, as argued by theorist Rita Laura Segato.

Cimbra Formwork uses metonymy, where the victims' clothes represent their absent bodies, and metaphor, as the cement represents the violent disposal of those bodies. This technique avoids sensationalizing the dead, a common issue in discourse around feminicide. Margolles’ work emphasizes the invisibility of these crimes, echoing the societal neglect and the use of women’s bodies as "waste" in patriarchal structures. While ambiguous, the artwork challenges viewers to confront feminicide's reality and maintains an ongoing conversation about the victims’ stories and societal impact.

Read the full piece on our website, link in the BIO!

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Raffia - An online magazine on gender, diversity, and feminism

Raffia Magazine publishes informative and opinion pieces in Dutch as well as in English. The articles and columns are written by students, PhD candidates, scholars, professionals on behalf of organizations, artists, experience experts, and any others interested in the field. Raffia is affiliated with Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies of the Radboud University. We are based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.