Wietske Merison

Wietske Merison
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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.

Recent Essays

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 play is influenced by the stage and interacts with it.

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 of the puzzler is about the puzzling itself.