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It’s okay if you’re just clicking around.
Even better, if you’re holding us with your fingers.
Blogs are almost an archaeological artefact.
But this is not a museum. Nor is it an online shop.
We don’t want your data, but we do appreciate a moment of your attention.
If you typed “cultural studies” into a search engine, chances are you enjoy question marks — do you?

This is a student-run webpage created by a few postgraduates at KU Leuven (you can see our faces here). For almost one year, we sat in big rooms discussing how meaning is produced, how power and ideology flip through cultural representation, reinforcing hegemonic views and marginalising certain identities. How postcolonialism and a bunch of other -isms (not to mention the number of —post and turns) help us think about structures of injustice. Throughout the surprisingly not-so-traumatising Belgian winter and rainy spring, we watch movies, deconstruct images, and go to exhibitions — in the end, that’s the reason you join such a programme, isn’t it?

And we kept talking about the different waves of feminism, affect theory, ecological crises, and digital surveillance. We were getting used to the voices of bodies from all parts of the world. But we didn’t really know each other.

In a way, this online space is a consequence of the desire to learn more about who we are. It’s also a place where we can publish the essays we wrote to pass our courses, the poetry we hid from close friends, the arts and crafts we haven’t given up yet, etc. It’s not about those big unsolved questions, or maybe it is, but only insofar as it is about the small things of our everyday life. Because culture is ordinary. And the Ordinary Matters.

If you’re a fellow colleague, welcome and think about publishing here. If you’re not, enjoy your stay and get in touch with us.