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LGBTQ+ asylum seekers across Europe struggle to prove their sexuality to find safety. This story is a part of our magazine—The Queer Issue.

Queer people are being targeted everywhere we turn. In its 2021 report, ILGA—the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex A...

Queer Roma people's experiences are shaping LGBTQ+ activism in Romania, one of Europe's most religious societies. This story is a part of ou...

Although Italy still lags behind many of its neighbours when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights, pockets of the southern region of Campania have been...

What if queer people aren’t the product of their own trauma—a broken part in an otherwise close-to-perfect system—but it’s actually the syst...

Imagine a space where all parts of your identity can be expressed, self-acceptance is encouraged, and a sense of community can be found. For...

How a queer video game character made Edwin van de Scheur fall in love. This story is a part of our magazine—The Queer Issue.

Fado Bicha defies fado’s traditions and brings lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex themes into the core of Portuguese traditional mus...

Best described as a “cant”—a form of language spoken by a group and that is unintelligible to outsiders—Polari was mostly spoken by British...

“Integration has nothing to do with learning the Chancellor’s name.” Reflecting broader society, social spaces specifically conceived to wel...

Adolfo Martínez was kicked out by his parents when he was only 18—because he liked boys. Eight years later, he set out to create an organisa...

From the 1960s to the 1990s, four Georgian women ruled the world stage—also including Nana Alexandria and Nana Ioseliani. Dubbed druzhina —a...

It is common for European sport clubs to sign immigrant athletes, but their treatment of them is often disrespectful. Some days they are pra...

Throughout Europe, carnival marks the start of the Christian fasting season of Lent, and typically involves celebrations such as parades and...

The Ottery Tar Barrels are a twist on customary Guy Fawkes night celebrations, an annual British tradition normally commemorated with bonfir...

In 1974, the greatest Dutch team of all time had been beaten by West Germany in the World Cup Final in Munich. Fourteen years later, they re...

This is a story from our latest magazine on sports which explores wheel gymnastics, a vertigo-inducing discipline, also known by its origina...

In the Basque country, stone lifting is one of 18 officially recognised rural sports rooted in traditional lifestyle and folklore. Others in...

Line dancing was born in the United Stated in the 1970s, as country music merged with the disco scene. Today, it’s practiced worldwide, and...

In Sweden, the story of pétanque goes back to the 1950s, when a French-Swedish man called Jacques Adlivankin brought the game back from a vi...

There are many types of Studentenverbindungen (“student associations”) in Germany, with different historical roots. Modern-day clubs like th...

The rules of the Transcontinental Race are fairly straightforward: ride from one side of Europe to the other without any support that wouldn...

This is a short story from our latest magazine, The Sports Issue, which uncovers the magnetism of surfing. For some, surfing is about adrena...

People who see Capoeira being performed for the first time often ask the same question: is it a dance or a martial art? The music, percussio...

Despite skateboarding’s inclusion in the Olympics and the recent push for equality, most skaters are boys. This story is from our latest mag...

After nine centuries of colonial repression, the Irish are reclaiming their language and heritage.

Oumou Longley explores how could Black and British people tell their own stories.

What's the impact of Italy's colonial history on Afro-Italians?

The people working on decolonising their communities across Europe.

Germany’s model of Holocaust remembrance sets an example for other European countries to commemorate their colonial past better.

A monument built by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago is both a symbol of pride and shame for Filipinos today.

A colonial-era loophole law allows residents of Goa in India to obtain EU citizenship.

Uganda’s favourite street food puts colonial history on a plate.

From hero to oppressor, Christopher Columbus is remembered very differently on both sides of the Atlantic.

Voluntourism won’t save the world

While a majority of development work happens in non-white countries, people of colour rarely call the shots.

While older generations longed to be Danish, the youth are reclaiming traditional Greenlandic culture.

Decolonising the past, present and future of the cultural sector.

China’s recent crackdown on democracy has made some Hongkongers reconsider returning to British rule. But is that even possible?

Colonialism is the reason many Pakistanis have neglected their native language, Urdu.

In Bangalore, India, a statue of Queen Victoria used to symbolise the power of the British Empire. It has now become a banal sight.

Despite pressure from activists, local council votes to keep the statue of Robert Clive in Shrewsbury, U.K.

The U.K. initiatives fighting racism in academia

Nozizwe Dube is on a mission to decolonise education, starting with her own university—KU Leuven. Taking down the statue of King Leopold II,...

First the British took our land. Now a band of Black timber crooks are selling our forests to the highest bidder.

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