Wietske Merison is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in environmental justice and Islamic law. She is an avid birder, musician, painter, and poet with a great love for apple juice and potatoes.
Wietske Merison
Articles by Wietske Merison
American Holland and Dutch America: On the Exoticization of Culture
Culture is the ever-evolving play that takes place on that stage, as new props come and old props are replaced, even as the theater remains the same. Of course, the…
The Jigsaw Revolution: Finding Peace, Piece by Piece
The way of the puzzler is not about reaching a certain goal. If it were, the perfectly fine image would never have been broken up to begin with. The way…