Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian and freelance researcher, writer and curator. Her interests lie in the past and present of colonial history and slavery from an intersectional perspective. She currently is an external PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a crown member of the Council for Culture. Maayke Botman is programme advisor at the Oranje Fonds in the field of Social Justice for the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. She is also a board member of the Bijlmer Parkktheater and the Rutu Foundation for indigenous and multilingual education. Gloria Wekker is a socio-cultural anthropologist (PhD UCLA, 1992), and professor emerita in gender studies at Utrecht University. Besides her academic work, including The Politics of Passion (2006) and White Innocence (2017), she also writes poetry and prose. In 2017, Science Guide recognised her as second of ten most influential Dutch academics.