Amplifyinged. Setarah Noorani & Tabea Nixdorff The book Amplifying brings together written manifestations that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherlands. Amplifying means giving credit to, mentioning, over and over, and supporting the circulation of sources and authors that are formative for our thinking and practices. In the early 1980s, the political term black (zwart in Dutch) was introduced in the Netherlands to build alliances between women