Tag: culture
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Art and protest in Putin’s Russia
ANALYSIS With thanks to Liza Malyan In the past few weeks living in London I have seen the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag on every corner. As little as a ribbon pinned to the lapel is a symbol of allegiance with the oppressed. It is easy to forget that the freedom to express […]
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Arab queer film finds success: an interview with the director of Lebanon’s award-winning “Warsha”
INTERVIEW As the world marks LGBT History Month, film director of Lebanese and Syrian origin Dania Bdeir is making her mark as a contributor to queer history, with her award-winning short film, “Warsha”. “Warsha” follows Mohammed, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to operate one of the […]
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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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‘And Just Like That’, queerness was mainstreamed by the Hollywood liberal elite
OPINION HBO Max is introducing its new series, ‘And Just Like That‘. The series is a sequel of ‘Sex and the City‘, one of the most well-known shows to come from the US that ran from 1998 to 2010. As a queer Arab fan of the original series, it is important to me to apply […]
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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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Why moving to Vienna has made my life easier as a trans person
OPINION Moving abroad is never an easy process, especially in the midst of a pandemic that casts uncertainty on all of our futures. But for a trans person like me, moving to a new city or country is filled with difficulties that cisgender people neither think about, nor anticipate. I have lived in the UK […]
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