I don’t want to continue like this. I want to get rid of my fears now. Right now. I want to get out of the sofa and I want to stop crying. But my feet froze and my body decided that it was not the right time to move. Because at the same time I…
Category: Inclusion
Healthy Minds – The Mental Health Series
Education: the hot political topic It’s an important issue at any time, but right now education is the hot political topic in Scotland. The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has made education her government’s number one priority. Their aim is to close the “attainment gap”, the difference between how well students from the wealthiest backgrounds do…
Call for articles: Mental Health
It is time for us, as an inclusive organisation, to talk about mental health. We want to talk about depression, about anxiety, about personality disorders, about concentration problems, addictions and eating disorders. In a respectful and open way. Do you have writing skills, do you want to smash some taboos about mental health or do…
The First and Last Level of Political Resistance: an Europe of municipalities or municipalities of Europe?
There seems not to be many promising scenarios on the near future for progressive policies. From Spain to Hungary, the right, in all its forms, has the power of member states. In such a situation, where transnational financial elites are re-founding neoliberalism using new faces such Macron or old ideologies such Le Pen’s, how can…
Call for articles: The Gender Issue
Sexism, wage gaps, transphobia, heteronormativity and a lack of women and non-males in leading positions: even though we are all equal according to law, there is still a great need to address gender related exclusion, (institutional) oppression and the domination of a gender binary worldview. Within feminism, our focus has shifted towards intersectionality: which voices…
They have heard we are queers!
When does our vulnerability reach its highest point?! A question I had not thought about until 25th of August 2017. What hurts the most is thinking what’s worst, when pedestrians are violent towards you because of your gender expression or the fact that the police, who should be the last resort for seeking help, does…
Being a trans activist in Turkey today
Turkey provides only 4 out of 22 criteria according to the Trans-Rights European Index 2016 [1] prepared by Transgender Europe (TGEU). TGEU also prepared a report about Trans Murders Monitoring [2], Turkey is the 8th country with the highest number of trans crimes in the world, with 44 trans crimes reported between 2008 and 2016….
Who Are the Green Party Leadership Candidates?
Voting is now open for the election of the Summer. And no, it’s not for the next Labour leader. The Greens are currently deciding who will take over from Natalie Bennett after two terms in office. After a month of – it has to be said, relatively low-profile – campaigning, the 65,000-odd Green Party members…
Civil partnership for same sex couples in Hellas is here!
Image from Vice On the 8th of December 1974 the Hellenic government put the constitution of the country to a vote, establishing Hellas as a Parliamentary Democracy by June 1975. 41 years and 14 days later, the Hellenic Parliament votes for a historical legislation, which includes the civil partnership for same sex couples. During his…
Silent Realities – Heteronormative Hegemony & Divisions within the Queer Community in Chile
Shyam Anand Singh is a young academic from Singapore who delved into the Chilean LGBTQ community for his research. It was 7.30pm at Bellas Artes Metro Station and I was due to meet Eduardo [not his real name], a 24 year old Law student from Diego Portales University. I scanned the staircase next to the…