Anyone can be Born Intersex: A Photo-Portrait Story by Intersex-Nigeria Published: 6 July 2021 This photo-portrait story by the intersex community in Nigeria intends to create awareness and encourage public conversations around the plights of intersex persons with regards to their rights against discrimination, stigmatization and bullying.
Hard-Won Progress on Gender Equality Destroyed: The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Women and LGBTIQ Published: 29 June 2021 2020 was expected to be the feminist super year - the anniversaries of the UN Resolution on "Women, Peace, and Security" and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were supposed to be celebrated, and discussions about the lack of their implementation to be held. Instead, this became the year that, according to UN Women, would destroy 25 years of feminist achievements.
Algorithmic misogynoir in content moderation practice Published: 21 June 2021 "Algorithmic misogynoir in content moderation practice" from Brandeis Marshall, offers an intersectional perspective by exploring the discrimination specifically faced by Black women in the United States.
The state of content moderation for the LGBTIQA+ community and the role of the EU Digital Services Act Published: 21 June 2021 "The state of content moderation for the LGBTIQA+ community and the role of the EU Digital Services Act" by researcher Christina Dinar, focuses on the challenges faced by the queer community in Europe and offers detailed recommendations for the forthcoming EU Digital Services Act.
Same-sex partnerships in Montenegro - love outside the system Published: 11 June 2021 Today’s Montenegro, has slowly started to understand and accept diversity, outside of what is traditionally seen as a “minority” - religious, national, ethnic, etc. Thus, talk about LGBT people began picking up pace slowly and quietly as early as 2002, at first within institutions of the system, under the influence of reform processes and the international community.
The Online Safety Bill: will it protect women online? Published: 9 June 2021 ‘The safest place in the world to go online’. This is the ambition for the UK, set out by the Government in the 2019 Online Harms White Paper, and echoed over the next two years as the proposals evolved into the now Online Safety Bill: ‘a milestone in the Government’s fight to make the internet safe‘. While there has been scattered applause, many asked: what does it mean to be safe online?
An Uncertain Step Toward Marriage Equality Published: 3 June 2021 At the beginning of the 2010s, the queer movement in Serbia started its race for marriage equality. The deadline set by the state for this was the last quarter of 2017. However, not only was the Draft of the Law on Same-Sex Partnerships not compiled until this year, but not a single activity has been initiated by the competent authorities which would have resulted in awareness-raising among the general public on the necessity of regulating this issue.
Flâneuse - Female Perspectives on Navigating Lagos Published: 27 May 2021 Three female artists use different visual art forms to express the challenges women face as they navigate in an urban environment dominated by patriarchal norms and structures.
Weaponization of Care Published: 20 May 2021 How do cultural institutions deal with internal cases of violence, abuse of power and discrimination? In his contribution to the new publication "Theatre and Power", Nishant Shah analyzes how art and cultural institutions refuse to dismantle their power structures and merely perform care work instead of practicing it.
Phobia, Whose Phobia? Unpacking Present-Day Homophobia and Transphobia in Asia Published: 17 May 2021 On the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the scholar-activist Dédé Oetomo from Indonesia explores the contrast between contemporary homophobia and transphobia and the more tolerant or accepting past and how this can give support to the LGBTIQ+ community.