Posts published by “Ties Dams and Thalia Ostendorf”

Thalia Ostendorf is a Dutch-Surinamese writer and cultural critic, and co-founder of Chaos Press (Uitgeverij Chaos), the only intersectional feminist publishing house in the Netherlands. She is currently conducting her PhD research at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her research focuses on war literature and its influence on contemporary peace activism and remembrance practices in the UK and the US.

Ties Dams is an essayist and political theorist based in the Netherlands. He teaches, writes and consults on geopolitical strategy. He authored a book on the life and rule of Xi Jinping, titled De Nieuwe Keizer (Prometheus, 2018). He was educated in Utrecht, Xiamen, London and Hong Kong.