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Tag: Gender and LGBTQ

Pride Is Still a Protest

Posted on 27 April 2023

The LGBTQ+ community are one of the most vulnerable in society, facing systemic discrimination in many parts of the world, and attacks on their human rights in others. Despite what conservatives or ‘gender critics’ would like to convince us, LGBTQ+ people are not a threat to be stopped, nor a problem to be solved. Nevertheless,…

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Spain’s Women in Gaming – a Bright Future Ahead

Posted on 8 March 2023

by Shaima Chachai Handi Video Games have an incredibly broad demographic. People from all backgrounds, ages, and interests enjoy forms of this medium in some way or another. From mobile game users to competitive esports players, there’s a space for everyone’s preferred genre, gaming frequency, and pace.  According to the “2020 European Video Games Industry…

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Inclusive Language – From the view of a Non-Binary Gender Person

Posted on 4 January 2019

Inclusive language is important nowadays to support equality, especially regarding equality for women. There is just one problem: It is not inclusive regarding the GSRM-Community (Gender, Sexual and Romantic Minorities). At the age of 12 I began to question my sexual and romantic orientation. I just knew I wasn’t straight. I acknowledged that and moved…

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They have heard we are queers!

Posted on 6 October 2017

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…

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Being a trans activist in Turkey today

Posted on 19 April 2017

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….

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Civil partnership for same sex couples in Hellas is here!

Posted on 26 December 2015

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…

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Silent Realities – Heteronormative Hegemony & Divisions within the Queer Community in Chile

Posted on 25 September 2015

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…

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Homophobia On The Rise In Russia

Posted on 17 May 2015

On the 17th of May 2015 we celebrated another International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. On the one hand, in many European countries the situation of LQBTQIA community improves, on the other in some it doesn’t or, like in Russia, it gets dramatically worse. A Russian activist Anasiasia Sheveleva tells us about the situation…

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International thoughts on Gender

Posted on 19 March 2014

L’humanité exige les hommes et les femmes, et nous sommes tout aussi importants et nous avons besoin les uns les autres. S’entraider et se soutenir mutuellement avec l’égalité du/des sexes renforce le marché de l’emploi. Humanity requires both men and women, and we are equally important and need one another Helping each other and supporting…

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What’s your Gender ? Terry !

Posted on 19 March 2014

  Fuck gender – be yourself… was one of the major demands in the queer-feminist manifesto of Grüne Jugend. We claimed that we want to live in a society where gender does not matter anymore. Where “Is it a girl or a boy?” is not the first question when a child is born. Where we…

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