Roos van der Velde

I’ve been feeling extremely overwhelmed by the current geopolitical crises. I find myself trying to figure out how to perfectly recycle the multi-material packaging of my vegetarian onigiri, while trying to keep up with the Aljazeera liveblog on the USA-Iran War, while an oil refinery catches fire in Mexico and more gruesome details bubble up from the Epstein Files, only to be suppressed by an item on Jake Paul being endorsed by Donald Trump? (yes, this really happened if you had not seen...

By Roos van der Velde . This article was written in collaboration with Jana from Debt for Climate . Illustration by Julie M. Elman Coming from the Netherlands, a culture that is uncomfortable -to say the least- with speaking about money, I had learned the complexities of conversations on money and power. Still, debt had always remained a scary topic for me… anything with finances and economics really. We had touched on reparations and wealth in our discussions, however, comfortable in our own...