Biking against borders.
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hi! you’ve made your way to my website, welcome! since august 2024, i (seb, 24 years old) am cycling from Amsterdam to Sri Lanka. an adventure that crosses around 20 “borders”. do those “borders” also seem so unnatural and arbitrary to you, too? it’s only with sheer luck that i have a Dutch passport that allows me to cross them: a privilege only granted to few.
so, come along with me and explore why borders suck. browse my website, read some books, share the fundraiser. by biking, i’ll bring you along in my own learning process about why borders exist, how they function and why they’re so unjust.
me (seb).
um, so.. any serious project starts with a biography, i think. the boy in the green jacket, laughing? that’s me! i’m a bus driver in Amsterdam who likes to bake bagels, climb things and read Ursula K. LeGuin.
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.
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 20 (!) 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 organisation based in Amsterdam that fights against borders, racism and xenophobia. MiGreat (and myself, too) believes everybody should have the freedom to move, regardless of birthplace! No Name Kitchen, another organisation, helps people trying to cross borders.
if i can cross borders, everyone should be able to!
will you sponsor and support these 2 organisations?👇
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