🎙 GINI’s voices – Ep. 01 - Virginia Scheele: roots & heritage ✨
In this first episode, Virginia Scheele, founder of GINI, shares her personal journey of growing up in a small Dutch village as one of the few families of colour, navigating identity, bias and belonging.
She reflects on:
🔸Childhood; trying to fit in with brown skin and curly hair
🔸How history stories shaped, and limited, her worldview🔸Encounters with racism in school, work and love
🔸Discovering feminism and its links to inequality
🔸Diving into her ancestral roots and family background
🔸Embracing the complexity of being Black, White and Asian
This episode sets the tone for GINI’s voices: amplifying overlooked stories, honouring heritage and reclaiming erased histories.
📚 Resources & mentions:
🔸De zeven vinkjes (in Dutch) - Joris Luyendijk
🔸Hallo witte scholen - Anousha Nzume
🔸Sexotisch - Kelly-Qian van Binsbergen (not mentioned but relevant)
🔸De plantage van onze voorouders - Maartje Duin (not mentioned but relevant)
🔸Omek - by Kemo Camara
🔸Connect with Virginia: LinkedIn
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