Illustration: Sarah John

In the balance

Sophie Neiman reports from a stifling court in Kampala, where activists are waging a bitter legal battle to overturn Uganda’s harsh anti-gay law.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Giorgia Meloni pictured in Trento, Italy, just weeks before being elected Prime Minister on 25 September 2022.Photo: Pierre Teyssot/Shutterstock

Meloni’s canny game

Italy’s extremist prime minister is courting politicians abroad even as she enacts an authoritarian agenda of hate at home. But Giorgia Meloni’s embrace by the mainstream needs to end, argues Elena Siniscalco.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Travel.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

We were not socialized to be monogamous? Bethany Rielly asks us to end our judgements over multiple partners.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Illustration: Cassette Bleue/Shutterstock

A 101 in lovelessness

Success coaches, pick-up artists, men’s rights activists. Popular influencers are preying on men and boys’ emotional isolation. Daisy Schofield reports on how we might intervene.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

We liberated sex education? Husna Ara plots the path to shame-free learning.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: is the language of abuse being misused in personal relationships?

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022

Spotlight: Selma Dabbagh

Novelist Selma Dabbagh talks to Rahila Gupta about rescuing Arab women’s sexuality from orientalist framings.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Nicolle takes a break on the terrace of the Arcoiris office.Photo: Frauke Decoodt

On the pink corridor

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
UK: safer sex work

UK: safer sex work

Scotland’s prostitution laws.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019

Our bodies, our rights

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. And yet that is the practice in almost every country in the world today. Valentino Vecchietti calls for urgent change.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Nightlife vs Nazis

Nightlife vs Nazis

Tbilisi’s clubbing scene is in the crosshairs of a war on culture led by reactionary elements in Georgia, opposed to its progressive ethos.

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NI 514 - The next financial crisis - July, 2018
Hezbollah check on rights

Hezbollah check on rights

Morgan Meaker on Hezbollah's check on gay rights.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

A highland welcome; Rhino forensics; Good sex in Rwanda.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

Black Girl Magic

Natty Kasambala on the call to action and celebration.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Photo: Jürgen Fälchle/Alamy

Confronting a culture of sexual violence

To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization, writes Mark Engler.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Del LaGrace Volcano

Trans-action

A collection of pro trans organizations, websites, support groups, books, movies and more.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015
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

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
The next financial crisis July, 2018
A better media is possible June, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
The transgender revolution October, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
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