Project in cooperation with Correctiv.org Defiance in color, persecution in system: how Taliban rule, family enforcement, Pakistan's deportations and Germany's failures leave queer and trans Afghans without a path to…
A poem by Jaylan Arsalan unfolds between restraint and revelation: smiles that conceal exhaustion, relationships stretched by distance, a childhood that can no longer be returned to, a home imagined that turns into exile.
The draft legislation, leaked to the media in October, that would have imposed prison sentences on anyone found to "engage in, praise or incite behaviour contrary to biological sex at birth and general morality in Turkey was dropped from the bill when it reached parliament last week following public protests and criticism from opposition parties in Turkey.