Jennie Kermode: ‘I had to rethink everything about who I was.’Photo: Stewart Crowford

Ma vie en jaune*

Jennie Kermode on being ‘in the middle’.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015

I am what I am

There are myriad ways of being transgender – and experiences across the world are equally varied. Illustrations by Jason Barker.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015
This is transphobia: Verônica Bolina (left) as she was before being taken into police custody – and (right) after.

Staying alive

Visibility offers no protection for trans people in Brazil. Amanda Palha analyses the roots of violence and exclusion faced by her community – and its fight to stay alive.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015

Transgender – the facts

This New Internationalist fact spread looks the number of trans people around the world, the violence and discrimination they face, health, education, work, legal protections and vulnerabilities.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015
Marina, nine months pregnant with her third child, is on her way home from tending her crops near the village of Yapleu in the west of the country.Nyani Quarmyne/Panos Pictures

Country profile: Côte D'Ivoire

Tom Sykes considers a west African country full of contradictions.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Illustration: Sarah John

The sultan and I

The role and influence of traditional leaders is often underestimated by international agencies, writes Ruby Diamonde.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Sarvaja’s husband was shot in 1996. She still does not know who killed him.Sofi Lundin

In the land of widows

For the women left behind in Kashmir's border villages, life has its own challenges, as Sofi Lundin discovers.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Stepping up: Lithuanian youngsters are being encouraged to regard defence as a responsibility.Photo: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

War nerves

Daiva Repečkaitė reports on the rise of all things military in Lithuanian society.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015

Country Profile: Malawi

Richard Carver's insights into a country struggling with poverty, floods and corruption.

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NI 481 - Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? - April, 2015
Illustration by Sarah John.

When a sanctuary is a prison

Ruby Diamonde witnesses the pain of a community that can't go home.

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NI 481 - Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? - April, 2015
YES: Mathew Lawrence (left) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where he works on issues relating to political economy and democratic reform. His most recent publication was De-financialisation: a democratic reformation of finance (2014).

NO: Uri Gordon (right) is a lecturer in Political Theory at Loughborough University and co-convenor of the Anarchist Studies Network. An Israeli-born activist and academic, he authored Anarchy Alive!: Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press, 2008).

Should voting be compulsory?

Mathew Lawrence and Uri Gordon go head to head.

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NI 481 - Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? - April, 2015
Organized acts of kindness

Organized acts of kindness

US debts wiped clean through crowdfunding.

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NI 478 - NGOs - Do they help? - December, 2014
Prying plumbers

Prying plumbers

Ylenia Gostoli on the British government's latest ploy to spot those 'at risk of radicalization'.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Photo: Jon Cartwright

So much for free speech...

It's a complicated issue, admits Kate Smurthwaite.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Clockwise from top left. A boy releases his racing pigeons from the high walls above the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir; a young shepherd tending his flock near the Iraqi border; a shop on the outskirts of Istanbul selling clothes bearing the logo of ISIS/Islamic State; a passionate moment during the filming of a popular TV drama, with the Bosphorus Bridge illuminated in the background; a demonstrator poses in front of a burning barricade built to stop police reaching Taksim Square during the anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul in 2013.Photos by Guy Martin / Panos Pictures

Country profile: Turkey

Samantha North assesses a country with a volatile mix of cultural, religious and political influences.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
YES: Danielle Leigh.

Can plastic surgery be liberating?

Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.

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NI 474 - Feminism fights back - July, 2014
Girls strike a pose for an advert for GoldieBox. One of the companies bucking the gendered toy divide, it makes engineering toys for girls. Photo: Nick UT/AP/Press Association Images

Is there a feminist spring?

Women’s rights has got its mojo back – and not a minute too soon. Hazel Healy takes stock of the challenges ahead.

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NI 474 - Feminism fights back - July, 2014

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The transgender revolution October, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
NGOs - Do they help? December, 2014
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Feminism fights back July, 2014
Feminism fights back July, 2014
The politics of language loss June, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
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