Tag: society
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Queerphobic violence in French homes: a preventable and unseen tragedy of the pandemic
Support Politika News on Patreon CN: this article contains detailed discussion of homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, murder and queerphobic violence CN: this article mentions rape and homophobic slurs OPINION Over this past year of lockdowns and restrictions, French LGBTQ+ rights organisation SOS Homophobie reported a rise in the number of queerphobic attacks taking place within the supposed safety […]
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No pride in apartheid: Israel’s pinkwashing and the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians
With special thanks to Anastasia Gavalas Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of trauma, genocide, homophobia, racism and pinkwashing OPINION To us, to liberate our country, to have our dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human right is something as essential as life itself. Ghassan Kanafani, speaking to Richard […]
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Surviving a pandemic from the margins of society: an interview with Opre Roma Srbija
Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, many are looking to vaccination as a pathway to the freedoms they have sacrificed. The Balkan region has been struck particularly hard, with death rates in Sarajevo, for example, exceeding those experienced during the city’s siege of 1992-96. Meanwhile, in Serbia a relatively […]
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Stormont’s neglect of the most vulnerable in Northern Ireland has led its children to violence
OPINION Reports of children as young as 12 being coerced to riot by gangs has been the most harrowing aspect of the recent upsurge of violence in Northern Ireland. The sinister and parasitical thugs who groom young people for criminal activity must be roundly condemned, but our political leaders share part of the blame for […]
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Hopelessness, segregation and divisive politics have driven Northern Ireland’s peace generation to violence
OPINION As the centenary of the partition of Ireland approaches, the streets of Northern Ireland are facing the ‘worst rioting in years’. Many of those leading the violence, some of whom have now been arrested, have been strikingly young. A significant number were born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA). What has brought this […]
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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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Sinking beneath the poverty line: Serbia’s forgotten tragedy
REPORT Amid Covid-19’s cruel impact on human health and world economies, there is another crisis that has gone unspoken even though it remains a significant issue in countries like Serbia. People did lose their jobs due to the pandemic. But what is to be said about those who have already been struggling for years? What […]
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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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