I Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT”. This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of “L”, “G”, “B” or “T” could fall within the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another identity that can be tacked onto a list of neat social categories, nor the quantitative sum of our… …
Luridly retro ideas of what it means to be a man have caused a dangerous rush of testosterone around the world – from Modi’s Hindu supremacism to Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship by Pankaj Mishra On the evening of 30 January 1948, five months after the independence and partition of India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking to a prayer meeting at his temporary home in New Delhi when he was shot three times,… …
Μεγάλωσα στην επαρχιακή ελλάδα των 90s, έφηβος την περίοδο του πολέμου στο Ιράκ, του πρώτου τηλεοπτικού πολέμου. Μια μέρα στα 15 μου ειχα ξαπλώσει, έτοιμος να κοιμηθω με το MTV ανοιχτό, όταν διακόπηκε για πρώτη φορά το μουσικό πρόγραμμα για την ανακοίνωση του θανάτου του Kurt Cobain, μια στιγμή θρησκευτικής σημασίας για τους γύρω μου, ίσως και μια γενιά. Ζούσαμε με το MTV για οξυγόνο, σανίδα σωτηρίας μέσα στην ελληνική… …
Since the civil rights movement, white people have exploited every opportunity to conceal their colonialist legacy and longstanding (ab)use of white supremacist power. They’ve proven time and again that they have no interest in rectifying that history, only in dealing with the fact that they could no longer deny the reality of those injustices. One effective tactic has been to separate white supremacy and colonialism from the way racism is… …
“Didi has always made us proud. Aisa kabhi nahin hua ki hamein unki wajah se kuchh sunna pada. Woh hamare parivar ka garv hai (We never had to hear anything on account of her. She is our family’s pride),” say the two brothers (18 and 20 years old respectively) of the girl whose rape and brutalisation a fortnight ago has stirred the whole nation. They were seated outside her ICU… …
Void Network [Athens, London, New York, Rio De Janeiro] expresses international solidarity for all girls and boys of India fighting for the end of patriarchic opression and medieval gender inequality and erotic supression in India. We express our demands for change of social morals all over this world, we demand social equality, gender equality, freedom of expression, freedom of Love, end of supression of diversity, freedom for all beings… …