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Rights Bulwark: Int’s Campaigners, Organizations Brace for Second Trump Term
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.” ― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy
Drinking Ourselves to Death: Alcoholism and the Queer Community
“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they’re heartbreaking.[…] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.” ― Osamu Dazai, The…
Pride Flags and Black Eyes: Intimate Partner Violence in Queer Relationships
“No amount of logic can usually move a battered woman, so persuasion requires emotional leverage, not statistics or moral arguments. . . .I have seen their fear and resistance firsthand . . . I believe it is critical for a woman to view staying as a choice, for only then can leaving be viewed as a choice and an option.”…
Hiding in Plain Sight: What We Have Missed About State-Sponsored Homophobia
“By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.” ― Hector Avalos
Justice Denied: Steven Kabuye Remains Committed to Human Rights Fight Months After Horrific Attack
“The attack on Kabuye goes against human rights. Every person deserves respect, dignity, and safety, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation. This is non-negotiable. We cannot compromise on protecting the rights and freedoms of each individual.” – Kenya Human Rights Commission
“Like You’re Praying”: The Art of Humiliation and History of Forced Anal Exams
“I want the exams stopped, the practice discredited, the awards and certificates stripped from the doctors’ walls, the practitioners to lose their reputations for dispassionate expertise and sample a small measure of the humiliation they have inflicted on countless men. The doctors who do this must be recognized as torturers.” – Scott Long – When Doctors Torture: The Anus and…
Femicide and Homophobia in Kenya: Women and Intersectional Struggles with galck+
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain…
Entrapment: Middle East and North Africa No Safe Place for LGBT Online Dating
“The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.” ― Brian Whitaker, Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Double-Edged Sword: How Homophobia and Violence Against Women Coexist
“Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.” ― Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse–A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and…
There Is No Safe Space for Women and Absolutely No Safe Space for Gay Women
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.” ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
I Ain’t Reading All That; I’m Happy For U Tho, or Sorry That Happened
“Doomscrolling is nothing new, people used to do the same with tv remote, switching channel after channel, rarely settling on any one program. And heads buried in social media news feed is nothing new either – before smartphone and internet heads used to be buried in actual physical newspapers. Only the means have changed, not the habit. This is not…
Profile in Courage: Let’s Walk Uganda Founder Champions Queer Ugandans’ Rights
The high number of Ugandan asylum seekers citing sexual orientation as grounds for seeking asylum reflects the harsh reality faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in Uganda. The Ugandan government’s history of persecution and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has forced many to flee in search of safety and acceptance.- Edward Mutebi, Founder of Let’s Walk Uganda
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