Statistics of hate
It’s clear there’s a need for a rethink. The relationship between media, socials and users needs to be readdressed and improved in order to highlight, and subsequently call out the most radical forms of hatred.
Rhetoric all too often starts in word form and then translates to physical reality – abuse and femicide statistics support this tragic theory in spades.
Pope Francis against proponents of criminalising homosexuality
Pope Francis returns to the subject of homosexuality in an interview given in the aftermath of Ratzinger’s death, in which he lashes out at Catholic Bishops who advocate the criminalisation of homosexuality.
Declaring such laws ‘unjust’, the Pontiff stressed that the Catholic Church can, and must work to repeal them. “It must do this,” the Jesuit stressed.
Holland says stop to homotransphobia.
In the Netherlands the parliament voted recently on an amendment to Article 1 of the Constitution, inserting a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and disability.
In Milan, the queue at the polling station(s) becomes one line for all
the Municipal Administration of Milan has decided to advise polling station staff to “not separate voters into two rows, always keep the registers close together and check the identity of people only when it is their turn”, thus enabling a non-discriminatory experience that is more respectful of each person’s gender identity and promotes inclusivity.
Gender self-determination and the depathologisation of transsexuality
The law, which awaits the Senate’s approval, will, amongst other things, allow individuals aged 16 or over (minimum age 14 with parental consent) to proceed with gender rectification in the absence of, until now, necessary judicial authorisation, and without it being conditional on prior medical or psychological examinations that ascertain the presence, in the applicant, of a perception of gender that is different from their birth sex.
From today LGBTQIA+ topics banned for under-11s: the case of a Milanese school
a well-known bilingual private school in Milan “grants” the possibility of dealing with LGBTQIA+ issues ONLY optional to students over the age of 11.
When freedom of being oneself was/is punished as a crime of indecency
The recent (and sparingly discussed) decision of Meloni’s government, which has declared its intention to reinstate the prison sentence for the crime of Obscene Acts in a Public Place, currently sanctioned with an administrative fine ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euro, and to impose harsher penalties, is cause for reflection and concern. Concern that one’s freedom of expression runs the risk of arrest and imprisonment.
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
Today, 27 January, is Holocaust Memorial Day, on which we remember all the victims of the Nazi holocaust: six million Jews and eleven million others, including disabled people, dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
“Memory is like a garden. It must be tended. Otherwise it will become overgrown with weeds. And the flowers of the righteous will disappear. Devoured.”
Bingo Allison: England’s first* non-binary priest
Discovering one’s identity is a deeply personal and intimate journey, a smooth path for many and a tortuous one for others, a journey that varies from person to person.
Increasingly inclusive television: what year awaits us?
What TV awaits us in 2023? It is still early to be able to give a clear and definitive answer, but the assumptions, looking at the past two years, seem encouraging.