UNDIVIDED for KU Leuven becomes UNDIVIDED
Important note: our website will soon be changed to a new domainname. Hi everyone UNDIVIDED has been working hard behind the scenes these past few weeks. A lot is changing. We recently learned that the university has decided to stop funding UNDIVIDED. This means that we are no longer linked to the diversity office and […]
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“Are you single?” and why this is not a question
A philosophical and deeply analytic essay on the power play involved in the not so innocent question ‘are you single?’.
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How to be an ally to an autistic person (part 2)
A basic toolkit for allistics on communication, social interaction and sensory needs.
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Ableist micro-aggressions
How to be an ally to an autistic person (part 1) Autism is a neurological difference. It’s a lifelong developmental disability that is different for each autistic individual. It is estimated that about one in 160 people is autistic, though numbers differ highly as not every autistic individual has an official diagnosis.[1] Support for our […]
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Collective responsibility
An essay by a philosophy student. I’ve always been very interested in collective responsibility. I spent my days last summer reading about transformational justice, both as a response to mass incarceration as well as to (sexual) abuse. I was hoping that that in some of my philosophy courses we would use history and theories to […]
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Asexuality
In the previous article on asexuality, this often invisible and misunderstood sexuality has been explained. If you don’t know a lot about asexuality already, make sure to read that article first! Now, we’ll go a bit more in-depth into the misconceptions that come along with the invisibility of asexuality. This invisibility is being fed by […]
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Lgbtqiap+
You don’t like all those labels and flags. You find it extremely overflowing. It makes you roll your eyes. You don’t understand why I cry because of what you say. You say I can just be a U, unique. Everybody can be a U. You say I don’t need labelling to be myself. You say […]
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Open Letter to the Vice-Rector
In this post we included a shortened version of the open letter. The full version can be found through this link. An Open Letter to the Vice-Rector of Student Affairs Dear. Professor Feys, We, as UNDIVIDED, are writing to you because we are concerned that there is a severe problem regarding KU Leuven’s approach to […]
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#TryHarder Leuven
Launching #TryHarder Leuven Campaign Violence, sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying are ubiquitous phenomena in every social setting. Universities are no exception to this rule, and neither is the KU Leuven. However, they often fail to address these issues. UNDIVIDED received multiple stories about KU Leuven failing to address acts of unacceptable behaviour, such as sexual […]
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Márta Mészáros – NINE MONTHS
TRIGGER WARNING. This film analysis deals partly with consent and its negative in the sexual sphere. The last thing I want to do, is to bring discomfort by claiming potentially unjustified generalisations about consent. Therefore, I want to emphasise that the content of this analysis comes from my own perspective and I am very open […]
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