Category: Cyprus
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Cypriot consciousness and online spaces: can we dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
ESSAY Audre Lorde once professed that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. Indeed, as an abolitionist, I believe that the state and all its wings of carceral violence (prisons, immigration detention centres, policing) must be dismantled for liberation to be possible. Funds, resources and energy must be funnelled away from these oppressive […]
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‘Uncharted’: how white narratives distort and orientalise Cypriot history and identity
CN: trauma OPINION ‘Uncharted’ is a four-part vlog-style Youtube series on the Cyprus conflict by YouTuber, Johnny Harris. I have watched the entirety of this insensitive, offensive series, so that you don’t have to. I will delve into my thoughts below, so you know exactly the reasons why you shouldn’t waste your precious energy on […]
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Androniki and prehistoric pottery: a look at non-binary gender expression in Cypriot culture
Support Politika News on Patreon. With special thanks to Ilaeira. ESSAY ‘It’s cultural’, people have often said to me. The tenacity of multiple systems of oppression – patriarchy, heteronormativity, racism – suggests they are and always have been endemic in Cypriot culture. As a member of the Cypriot diaspora, it has certainly felt that way. […]
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Re-thinking July 1974: problematic discourse in Cyprus’ Greek-speaking diaspora
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this video contains discussion of trauma, displacement, and war VIDEO As Cypriot communities commemorate the events of July 1974 (as well as the decades prior) that led to Cyprus’ partition, Politika News Editor, Georgio Konstandi and From Root To Vine creator, Maria Christodoulou, sit down to discuss problematic discourses […]
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Cyprus’ Peace Generation launch latest campaign for reunification: an interview with ‘Hade’
Support us on Patreon. VIDEO As Cyprus looks to the light at the end of a long COVID tunnel, its Peace Generation is eyeing up the chance to reset the political clock. 47 years ago, the island was partitioned and communities, who for centuries had co-habited peacefully, have since been forced to live apart. Now, […]
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Bottom-up activism, clerical intolerance and searching for hope: an interview with LGBTQ+ Diaspora Cypriots
VIDEO Two years after a Parikiaki survey revealed that less than half of LGBTQ+ Cypriots in the UK had come out to their family, Politika News sat down (virtually) with the diaspora’s LGBTQ+ group to talk about the homophobia and transphobia that persist in the community today. Religious dogma, bottom-up activism, the role of social […]
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Cyprus, Turkey and Greece: the EU’s biggest headache
OPINION At the height of the Classical Era, the Mediterranean Sea was dubbed a ‘Greek lake’, as the mighty Greek naval vessels roamed the valuable commercial routes of the known world back then. Testament to this are the numerous Greek colonies-cities dotted on the Mediterranean shores, which eventually grew to become Europe’s most important port […]
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