Dina-Perla Portnaar, at The Blogs

Dina-Perla Portnaar

Apr 19, 2026, 3:35 PM

There’s a consequential shift unfolding across institutions worldwide. One that blurs a line we cannot afford to lose. When public officials speak about discrimination, precision matters everywhere, not just within national borders. Addressing injustice isn’t merely about naming it,...

Apr 17, 2026, 10:31 AM

Treatment of animals as society’s ethical depth

What we are witnessing isn't merely a policy failure, nor a localized cruelty that can be dismissed as administrative excess or cultural misunderstanding. It's something far more revealing about the moral architecture of our time. I'm talking about the...

Apr 9, 2026, 9:49 PM

Humanecy as a response

Memos from the Edge | A philosophical novel

They accused her of murder, but the real crime is what she uncovered inside the fertility clinic. And someone tries to kill to keep it hidden. Memos from the Edge, a philosophical novel with elements of cozy crime, introduces humanecy...

Apr 3, 2026, 3:43 PM

My decision to decline

There are periods in a creative life when the work no longer stands alone. When it becomes inseparable from the conditions that shape it. Thus, from the tensions it absorbs, and from the wider world that presses itself into...

Mar 19, 2026, 6:32 AM

Long read: When blasphemy has returned to the West

For several centuries, Western society believed it had solved one of the most destructive problems in its history, namely the policing of belief. The brutal conflicts that once tore apart Europe eventually produced a fragile but revolutionary insight. The...

About Me

Dina-Perla Portnaar is a small business owner of a global agency, a critical thinker, analyst, and an author. Born in 1985, she escaped a restrictive upbringing, a journey she chronicles in her book, Exodus uit de Vuurtoren (Dutch). Her philosophical novel, Memos from the Edge (English paperback and e-book in all languages), includes ideas of her own philosophy called humanecy. She combines deep, free, and critical thinking with storytelling on morality, ethics, and integrity.