biking
against
borders
hi! you’ve made your way to my website, welcome 💖. since august 2024, i (seb, 25 years old) am cycling from Amsterdam to Japan. to get there, i cross around 25 borders. but wait, this is such a privilege, as my passport is among the strongest in the world! so: why do you need this sheer luck to be able to see the world?
the answer lies in many places, but the core is: borders. so, while i’m biking for 2.5 years, i’ll learn about borders. why are they here? how do they work? and (how) can we get rid of them? i’ll tell you about it. you can join me on this learning path. imagine a travel blog having a baby with political radicalisation. that’s this blog.
me (seb).
i’ve been part of social movements since i started studying 5 years ago: protesting, speeching, organising & occupying. in those 5 years of being intensively political i’ve seen this country change. scapegoating marginalised groups has become ever more normalised, with migrants getting a particularly bad brunt of the stick.
um, so.. any serious project starts with a biography, i think. the person in the pictures? that’s me! i’m an anarchist bus driver in Amsterdam who likes to read (my faves: David Graeber & Ursula K. LeGuin), climb things and cook vegan foods.
now, if ever, is the time to fight back against inhumane and exclusionary politics. in a world that’s on fire, we must react with compassion. if we don’t, then what is the point of it all?
freedom to move
freedom to move
(my mom)
during the trip, i'll cross roughly 25 (!) borders. one such border: Afghanistan. i can enter and be received by the Afghan people with immense hospitality. yet i cannot legally receive an Afghani in my own tiny room: they aren’t allowed into the Netherlands.
MiGreat is a political and direct aid organisation based in Amsterdam that fights against borders, racism and xenophobia. No Name Kitchen helps people on the move across Europe trying to cross borders. Both organisations work for the freedom to move for everyone.
while i bike, we raise money with a sort of sponsoring system.
check it out and support these 2 organisations?👇
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