View from India

View from India

Gender politics, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 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
Photo: Alice McCool

Sign of the Times

Trans healthcare matters, by Alice McCool.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Escaping anti-LGBTQI+ hate, by Alice McCool.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Celebrations ahead of travelling to the annual 18-day transgender festival in Koovagam, Tamil Nadu, India on 22 April 2013.Photo: Arun Sankar K/AP Photo/Alamy

The trans revolution

In a time of toxic ‘culture wars’, it may be hard to see the liberating potential of transgender rights for us all. But this piece from 2015, by Vanessa Baird, did just that – while taking a pop at the tyranny of the binary.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Full speed ahead: Khawaja sira people celebrate the passing of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in Lahore on 29 December 2018. The bill allows people to declare their gender – male, female or third gender (non-binary) – without expensive and painstaking medical transition.Photo: KM Chaudary/AP Photo/Alamy

Chosen family

Tooba Syed on how Pakistan’s gender non-conforming community are fighting renewed attacks on their age old existence and customs – through queer kinship.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Illustration: Emma Peer

As his comrades argue about trans women, a reader feels conflicted.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Athletics

Athletics

Athletes call out body policing

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Agony Uncle

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Agony Uncle

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Illustration: Saman Sarheng

What if...

...we scrapped the gender binary on official documents? Vanessa Baird suggests a world beyond M or F.

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 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
The Big Push, the latest book on patriarchy by Cynthia Enloe

The persistence of patriarchy

Renowned US feminist Cynthia Enloe reveals how patriarchy is adapted and sustained by its adherents – knowledge which is essential to challenging it

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Illustration: Belle Mellor

Deliver us from Venus and Mars

Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The fight for clean air May, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
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