Month: Jun 2021

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İstanbul Governor Office bans LGBTI+ Pride March again

Bianet :: English

As the Pride March has been banned for the seventh consecutive year, LGBTI+s say they will define the ban and ?find one another on the streets.

In Turkey, Pride Picnic draws police violence

Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva

In Istanbul, police intervenes to prevent Pride week picnic.

Originally published on Global Voices

Screenshot taken from the video about a Pride march held in the Turkish city of Izmir in 2014. The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXSOMgTR7Qk

Turkish police, violently dispersed a group of people, celebrating Pride week at Maçka Park, one of the city?s remaining green spaces in the district of Şişli on June 22. Police intervention began reportedly after the Şişli Governor?s Office issued a statement, banning the picnic because it could result in “public disorder.”

In other news:

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu promises support to Boğaziçi students stripped of…

The Brutish Royal Navy sent a destroyer, ironically called HMS Defender, into Russian territorial waters off Crimea in a deliberately provocative move. Russia finally stopped showing “restraint”; a Russian Coast Guard gunboat fired warning shots, and then a Sukhoi 24 strike aircraft dropped two bombs into the sea, whereupon the Brutish turned tail and ran for their lives.

Despite the fact that a Brutish Bulldung Craporation “reporter” and another from the Daily Mail were on the ship – by an amazing and total coincidence, of course – and reported that the Brutal Navy crew had loaded weapons before entering Russian territorial waters, and that Russia had indeed fired warning shots, the Boorish Johnson regime farcically denied any such thing even happened. Then the Russians not just released the video of the incident, but warned that next time Brutain tried this sort of thing Russia would drop its bombs on…

Roxane Gay, born in 1974 in Omaha, Nebraska, to a family of Haitian descent, is an American professor, author, editor, and commentator. She began writing essays as a teenager; her writing was sparked by having survived a sexual assault at age twelve. Her higher education was interrupted by a relationship, but she returned to school and went on to receive a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a PhD in rhetoric and communication from Michigan Technological University. She began her academic career teaching English at Eastern Illinois University; while there, she was a contributing editor for Bluestem magazine, founded Tiny Hardcore Press, and started to produce short stories, essays, and novels. Her fiction and nonfiction explore a variety of issues and challenges relating to race, gender, and sexual identity, and also delve into privilege, body image, and the immigrant experience.

Gay’s fiction…

In Germany alone, 40,000 piglets end up in the rubbish bins every day, they are rubbish and are not needed.
Per day!
Half dead, lying helplessly dying, they die a painful, slow death after being hit on the floor.
The cattle are hung by one leg, their necks cut off, millions of animals die the same gruesome death for minutes, not just at a week-long festival, but every day.
Only these “other” animals were not declared as pets by humans.
One wonders if Yulin would get that much attention when it came to pigs or calves.

Of course, the Yulin massacre is not justified by the fact that it could be worse in every country with different “animal species”.

ALL animals have the same feelings and exactly the same right to a happy life without suffering and without being killed for their bodies in the end.
The same pain is…