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Oct 16, 2025, 1:00 PM GMT+1 Ekko Astral is not a trans band. They may have a trans frontwoman in Jael Holzman. Much of their material may deal with being trans. Plus, they may have grown their fan base from word of mouth online in spaces such as trans Twitter. But at the end of…
Antananarivo, Madagascar – On a typical Sunday morning in Mahamasina, a suburb of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, Sarobidy Ramarimanana joined the queue at her neighbourhood water point just after sunrise. “I just wanted to fill my jerrycan and go to church,” she told Al Jazeera. “I was about to draw water when people started running; jerrycans…
Oct 15, 2025, 1:09 PM GMT+1 For about a year of my life, from late 2019 through the summer of 2020, I was trans only on Reddit. I don’t know why I chose Reddit. I don’t normally use the site heavily, or at all. But Reddit is a place where users ask for advice, and…
Occupied West Bank, Palestine – Close to Tulkarem, on the outskirts of the Nur Shams refugee camp, grey apartment blocks sit empty. Abandoned cars are strewn amid rubble where homes once stood. Shops are silent, streaked black where flames licked against the windows. Amid escalating violence by settlers from illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied…
You go into a store to buy a two-litre bottle of milk at your local supermarket and pay $3. But the person before you in the queue paid $3.50. And the person after you paid $2. What if those prices were based on your personal data or circumstances, or even the battery power on your…
Oct 14, 2025, 1:06 PM GMT+1 In the early 1970s, long before social media and more than a decade before the earliest internet forums, a woman named Peggie Ames became a human rolodex for trans women in New York state. Born in Buffalo, Ames spent years working for gay rights organizations in the rural and…
Various locations, Lithuania – Along the banks of the Nemunas River, flags appear to be a fundamental feature. On one side, in the sleepy Lithuanian town of Panemune, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and European Union flags flutter in the wind. On the other, a Russian flag towers over the Russian city of Sovetsk. On a nearby building…
Israel would not have been able to sustain its wars across the Middle East without the United States’s significant financial backing of more than $21bn since October 2023, according to a pair of new reports. The reports, which were released by the Costs of War Project at Brown University, found that: without US weapons and…
New Delhi, India — On the night of August 5, 2019, hundreds of Kashmiris were arrested amid a crackdown by Indian security forces that followed the Indian government’s decision to strip the region of its special rights and status as a state. Sonam Wangchuk celebrated, and thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “THANK YOU PRIME…
Varanasi, India – Mohammed Ahmad Ansari has spent his entire life in the narrow and congested lanes of Varanasi, a city often described as the spiritual capital of India, and the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 55-year-old has spent decades weaving Banarasi saris and thoroughly enjoys the clacking noises of handlooms at…
