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‘I lost my candidacy because I’m trans’: English Green Party member Kathryn Bristow

‘I’ve been deemed a risk to the party’s reputation for being transgender,’ Bristow tells openDemocracy in an exclusive interview

By Adam Ramsay and Lou Ferreira

/ 5 Aug 2021

‘I lost my candidacy because I’m trans’: English Green Party member Kathryn Bristow

‘The only Black person in the room’: The truth about racism in Italy

This is a translated excerpt from Nadeesha Uyangoda’s memoir about what life is like for a person of colour in Italy todayThis extract includes highly offensive language

By Nadeesha Uyangoda

/ 31 Jul 2021

‘The only Black person in the room’: The truth about racism in Italy

The Body Shop Georgia slammed for stories to empower women, written by men

One of the authors behind the short story collection has also been accused of sexual harassment by women in the European country

By Inge Snip

/ 29 Jul 2021

The Body Shop Georgia slammed for stories to empower women, written by men

I told lawmakers about my stillborn child – and helped pass a key bill

Louisiana has approved a law that will alleviate the emotional and financial burdens for bereaved families. The rest of the US should follow suit

By Joni Hess

/ 26 Jul 2021

I told lawmakers about my stillborn child – and helped pass a key bill

‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: an exhilarating, at times enraging new book

‘We are all on a journey towards sexual freedom,’ says author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, giving us a rare glimpse of women’s diverse personal lives

By Rosebell Kagumire

/ 24 Jul 2021

‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: an exhilarating, at times enraging new book

Gobierno español cuestionado por los hallazgos de openDemocracy sobre ‘terapias de conversión’

Tras revelaciones de que clínicas administradas en África por grupos financiados por la cooperación internacional ofrecen ‘terapias’ anti-gay, un partido de centro-derecha demanda respuestas en España

By Diana Cariboni

/ 15 Jul 2021

Inés Arrimadas, líder del partido Ciudadanos, en un acto tras ganar las elecciones de Cataluña en 2017 | Luay Albasha / Alamy

Are trans and gender nonconforming identities new ‘trends’?

No – and their histories are liberating for everyone, say academics who have researched resistance to gender norms around the world

By Lou Ferreira

/ 14 Jul 2021

Are trans and gender nonconforming identities new ‘trends’?

‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Kenyan survivor of ‘conversion therapy’

Survivors of anti-LGBT ‘treatments’ in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda describe effects on their mental health, family relations and general well-being

By Inge Snip and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 12 Jul 2021

‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Kenyan survivor of ‘conversion therapy’

Sukūriau abortų nesmerkiančią laidą ir buvau pasmerkta pati

Statistiškai dauguma moterų nesigaili sprendimo pasidaryti abortą, tačiau iš didesnės dalies lietuviškų žiniasklaidos publikacijų gali susidaryti priešingas įspūdis

By Elena Reimeryte

/ 8 Jul 2021