For better or for worse, performing as a girl online can be a powerful way to subvert the algorithm. And thanks to the whiplash of the girlboss epidemic, a meeker and cute self-image is taking hold. Trends like girl math, babygirl, and girl dinner reflect a tendency across genders to self-infantilise, with a growing resistance to industrialized understandings of adulthood, often tied to economic strains and shifting life expectations, particularly amongst younger generations. At the same time, the notion of girlhood itself is being questioned, reframed, and adopted in online spaces. As AI isolates our feeds even more by sorting us into predetermined categories, labels influence how we’re seen—and how we see ourselves. With machine learning gradually influencing more of our daily lives, how will our online actions and self-understandings change as a whole? Girl Online is a full-day programme hosted by The Hmm, a platform for internet cultures, taking place across SPUI25 and University of Amsterdam locations on Friday 16 May. Expect talks, performances, workshops, and more. This first ever Symposihmm will dive into girl trends, self-infantilisation, girl as a strategy in digital spaces, and the future of girlhood. It is part of This is who you’re being mean to, The Hmm’s broader 2025 year theme, exploring gender expression online. More information about the programme and speakers will be added soon. 📅 Date: Friday 16 May 2025 🕗 Time: 14.00 – 21.30 CEST 📍 Location: SPUI25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam, and online. 🎟 Tickets available soon ♿️ Accessibility note During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairments and disabilities. Please reach out to us if you are joining on-site and have this access need, so that we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. 💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis.

The rule is clear: we play. There is a beginning and an end. We meet. We are. Together. What happens in between surprises. No rules, no judgement. All different. Stepping in the unknown. Where the schedule stopped running. We Play. This night performers, musicians and other artists are coming together to create an evening. In the afternoon they meet, in the evening they perform for you. This evening is a present of surprises.x§ Doors: 18h Food available Performers: Jasper Stadhouders, Julie Kurris, Ivo Bol and more to come

Rope or Guillotine & World's Appreciated Kitsch Presents: NØ MAN (us) + FENTANYL (us) + OUST NØ MAN - US Washington D.C.'s NØ MAN is a necessary and much-needed voice in modern hardcore. Formed in 2017, the four-piece punk band has been alchemising the personal and the political from the jump. Composed of members from Majority Rule, the band's current aims go hand-in-hand with their past, sonically and thematically. As the daughter of refugees, returning home to Palestine included witnessing first-hand the casual atrocities inflicted on her family. Though written before the current conflict's boiling point, Glitter and Spit synthesises the 70+ years of systemic violence carried out against Palestine and her own lived experiences. From school teachers and classmates telling her Palestine doesn't exist, to being humiliated by soldiers at checkpoints when she visited her family, these many moments fuel the album's Lifeblood, coalescing on "Can't Kill Us All." OUST With the rhythm of frenetic drums that shift between speed and mid-tempo, impossible guitar riffs, and inherent bass lines forming the solid foundation of a voice full of hate and many things to say, OUST delivers contemporary hardcore in its purest form. FENTANYL - US Razor sharp guitars, forging treble into a blade through your ear drum. Raw, unbridled hardcore punk the way it was meant to be from the Bay's usual suspects. There's a members of list but you probably already know it. Destruction, distress, chaos. This one's a racket. poster by Lucas Lima

Save the date! Op 2 oktober is de allereerste editie van Kennis Maken: Nationale Citizen Science Expo, hét kennisdelingsevenement voor iedereen die betrokken is bij citizen science.