LOVER Tipt #7 2025
LOVER Tips english
Are you looking for your next great read, a captivating movie, or a must-see documentary? How about a podcast that will keep you hooked? Or perhaps a stunning theatre performance or an inspiring museum visit?
You’re in luck! LOVER Tipt has your back with the coolest suggestions for this month, all in English. Check out our picks!
Podcast
The Comment Section podcast, hosted by Drew Afualo, is witty, funny, and provocative. Afualo exposes the “toxic comment section” made by men leaving misogynistic comments on social media, such as insults based on people’s appearances. Using her snarky yet sharp humour, Afualo turns this roast session into a reflection on gendered stereotypes and toxic masculinity. This podcast is like a mirror that forces “keyboard warriors” to look at themselves and reflect on their hatred toward women online. Afualo’s platform subverts the power dynamics, making men accountable for their actions and behaviours. Raw, unfiltered, and hilarious.
Books:
The Ministry of Time (2024) by Kaliane Bradley is a sci-fi novel set in a future United Kingdom where time travel has been implemented. The protagonist is a British?Cambodian woman who works as a civil servant and participates in a top-secret project where she becomes the “bridge” for temporal refugees. Among them is Commander Gore, an English officer who died on a failed Arctic expedition during the colonial era, with whom the protagonist will develop a complex romantic relationship. This novel interrogates colonialism in a parallel universe where the laws of time are subverted. Among colonial tropes and Victorian patriarchy, Bradley’s novel also constitutes a critique of contemporary society, making us reflect on how certain problematic ideals are still alive.
Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference (2025) by Dr. Jackson Katz is an urgent call for men to take a more active role in addressing gender-based violence. Dr Katz argues that conversations around violence against women are framed as women’s problems and rarely discussed as an issue rooted in cultural norms around masculinity. Drawing from decades of work in education and advocacy, Katz challenges men to step out of passive bystander roles and take real responsibility by avoiding harmful behaviour and calling it out when they see it. Katz breaks down the social pressures and power dynamics around masculinity and violence and invites us to reflect on how, as a society, we construct the discourse around manhood. The book is a critique at its core, but it also offers us a solution and invites us to be part of a necessary change.
Museum:
FENIX Museum Rotterdam (open since the 16th of May 2025) contains many temporary and permanent exhibitions about public memory and migration narratives. Set in front of the old Holland America Line warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the museum gives new life to a place once tied to mass emigration. The location is not left to chance, considering the multiethnic nature of a city like Rotterdam, which has been a hub for immigration for centuries. The museum spotlights old and contemporary narratives on immigration, while sharing the powerful and intimate stories of women, men, and families who ventured from their homelands, some searching for a brighter future, some for safety. Through this lens, FENIX emerges as a feminist act of reclamation, amplifying the voices of migrant women. It challenges the prevailing narratives framing immigrants as threats, creating a space where stories of immigration can be shared.
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