In today’s world of advertising blitz, glamorous promotions, and creative social media campaigns, we are constantly bombarded with brands, causes, images, taglines, hashtags, etc., all of them competing for our attention, money, and support. However, how does one choose which brand or which cause to support amidst the expansive sea of competing brands and causes — all of which could …
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Stripped of your rights? Strip for them!
Uncovering oneself in an action can garner a lot of media coverage and campaigns to reclaim body and sexual rights will be even more tempted than others to actually feature the object of the claim : the body and the sexualities. Women’s movement have been at the forefront of this since the 60’s and up to today, with prominent anti-patriarchy group FEMEN or …
Read More »Raising the Flag
An interview with IDAHO Committee Advisory Board member Rosanna Flamer-Caldera who heads the Sri Lankan LGBT group Equal Ground exposes how the organisation managed to get many foreign diplomatic representations to raise the Rainbow Flag in Colombo for May 17th – Where/how did the idea originate? During a Pride March in Eastern Europe, we saw that the British High …
Read More »Cure Homophobia!
In many contexts, having a sexual orientation or a gender identity that does not conform to mainstream norms is considered a mental health issue, despite WHO declassifying homosexuality as such back in 1990. To mock that belief, a powerful strategy is to revert that argument and expose Homophobia and Transphobia as the real issues. “Homosexuality is not an illness, homophobia is” is …
Read More »Football tournament announced in Italy
ICONS – Initiative against Homophobia in Sports – announces tournament in Milano. More details at https://www.facebook.com/events/1456392454614856/
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