Making Machismo: Contextualizing queer life and death in Colima, Mexico
Set against the backdrop of Colima City’s annual ‘Charrotaurinas de Villa de Álvarez’ festival, this piece explores the intersection of Mexico’s macho culture, tradition and growing violence against the queer community.
Kazakhstan’s Queer Feminist Uprising is Now
Kazakhstan is in the midst of a feminist revolution, and it is queer. This article includes audio and video excerpts from interviews with Kazakhstan’s first queer feminist collective ‘Feminita’, covering activism, arrests and resistance in the notoriously anti-queer post-soviet state.
Afghanistan: Where humanitarian concerns do not match international action
Field researched, co-written and edited for Action Contre la Faim, this publication highlights the humanitarian context and the reality of needs in Afghanistan as NATO and donors begin to withdraw support and investment.
Liberia’s Family Planning Dilemma: Black bag medicine men and rural health access in Liberia
14 years of civil war decimated Liberia’s public health system. Black market medicine men filled the void of non-existent healthcare during wartime, but now threaten progress as Liberia rebuilds.
Portraits of Queer Love and Life in the Middle East
The ‘impossible’ art of Alireza Shojaian was once hidden behind heavy layers of paper and cloth, few pairs of eyes were privy to the Iranian-born artists work. Finding a home in Beirut in 2017, Shojaian challenges Middle Eastern concepts of queerness and masculinities on canvas.
This article and embedded video interview provide a glimpse into life as a journalist of the free press in Kazakhstan, and the role of independent reporting in defense of the LGBT+ community.