What makes a feminist in 2020? We asked feminists all over the world to share their views on what we think are some of the crucial questions that we should be debating right now. The feminist movement is broad, diverse and sometimes divided. Is that a good or a bad thing? Please, share your opinion with us…
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What makes a feminist in 2020? We asked feminists all over the world to share their views on what we think are some of the crucial questions that we should be debating right now. The feminist movement is broad, diverse and sometimes divided. Is that a good or a bad thing? Please, share your opinion with us…
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Scrollt runter für die deutsche Version! “I see myself as a perfect mix between masculine and feminine as I am always playing with both genders, not only in pictures but in every aspect of my life.” With this statement, you started our interview for ‘Cover Art Has No Gender’. Now, two years later, you have…
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12. September 2019 Sehr geehrter Außenminister Herr Heiko Maas, Sehr geehrte Staatsministerin Frau Michelle Müntefering, Sehr geehrte Präsidentin der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission Frau Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer, kulturweit, der internationale Freiwilligendienst der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission in Kooperation mit dem Auswärtigen Amt, feiert am 12. September 2019 sein zehnjähriges Bestehen. Gerne würden wir mit Ihnen das Jubiläum…
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When in London my sister smells afros on the train, she turns her head towards in the shop, her nose finds the isle with at the club, her drunk senses recognise the familiar smell of unfamiliar bodies, good unfamiliar. Intimidating, intoxicating calling her into a familial embrace and celebrating her body shape. …
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Trigger Warning: Suicide, slavery, war, sexual violence, gender-based violence, European colonialism For over 500 years, Europe has been entombing the evidence of its terrorism in graveyards on the other side of the Atlantic/Pacific/Mediterranean. Most Europeans have never spared a thought to, let alone commemorated, the peoples whose destruction they have caused. Historically, the general populous…
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Trigger Warning: N-word Everything is political. Even looking for a flat. I recently joined multiple housing groups in Cairo and posted that I was looking to rent a room in a nice flat with nice people and no pets. On my Facebook page, you can find a picture of me in a bra, a picture of me…
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(2019) Sitting on the steps of the sidewalks, I was waiting for the bus to take me to the capital’s airport.I said to my friend: “I hope I still belong in Egypt.” I had not visited Egypt in three years and had moved away seven years ago. I had become accustomed to losing and…
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modesty verses this sex ting’s esoteric, belonging to a few. not for girls like me who sprouted perched in pews. when The Bible says you cannot, you repress & grit your teeth. else demons go come and get you, drag you underneath. roasting like groundnut, legs crossed like a saint; sighing at my…
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What comes to mind when you think of vaginal health? Have you ever heard of vaginismus? Does this term ring a bell, or does it sound like “a condition that’s basically… [the word for vagina] mixed with the word for Christmas”? (as Ella Langley tells us half-jokingly in her newest play Have I Told…
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