Despite Russia’s homophobic laws, queer people in Russia are still choosing to become parents. Writers Karen Shainyan and Yaroslav Rasputin, from a new Russian-language queer media outlet Just Got Lucky, collected...
How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity There is (as yet) no state of Kurdistan. But in...
A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football On January 18 this year, Senegal won the African Cup of Nations in a 1-0 victory over Morocco in the...
An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil The histories of Italy and Libya have long been intertwined: from the time when Libya was a province of the Roman Empire, to Italian...
How decorative star-shaped piñatas sustain livelihoods and ritual life in Mexico In this reported piece for Contralínea, journalist Fernanda Monroy takes us into the family workshops and neighbourhood markets of Mexico...
How unaccompanied minor migrants navigate war, displacement, and uncertain futures in Lithuania Journalists Austėja Pūraitė and Audra Skuodaitė report from Lithuania’s Rukla Reception Centre, tracing the fragile and unstable lives...
The lynching of a 19-year-old Bengali labourer in Odisha exemplifies a growing climate of communal violence against Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in India On Christmas Eve in Sambalpur, Odisha, a...
As thousands mourn a slain rebel in Bastar, the report asks whether the state can kill a movement without addressing the conditions that gave it life Narrated by Rachana for Khabar...
Two honour-killings expose the price of loving across caste lines Written by Rachana and published by Khabar Lahariya, this report traces two recent cases of brutal violence that reveal how inter-caste...
How soaring rents are quietly pushing the city’s essential workers to the margins Anna Absolonová’s reporting traces Prague’s housing crisis through the lives of those who keep the city running...
How an illegal plant has acquired meaning as medicine, income, and a symbol of civil disobedience in a country where the law lags behind lived reality In this well reported...
A meditation on how socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was erased after 1990, and why reviving the figure of the “knowing child” matters urgently today. Written by cultural...
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