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Arts & Culture · December, 2025

Stories about Arts & Culture from December, 2025

Year in Review: How the Caribbean survived 2025

The year's ups and downs strengthened the region's muscles

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

2 weeks ago

Prospect and implications of other effective area-based conservation measures in indigenous Chepang landscape in Nepal

The stakeholders should be clearly informed and meaningfully engaged with the OECM framework before implementation

Written by Biswash Chepang

2 weeks ago

Japanese pop culture is sexually explicit, but sex education is wanting

While sexual images are everywhere, Japanese classrooms still regard sex as an issue of biological reproduction

Written by Jo Carter

2 weeks ago

Learning feminism before knowing its name: Verse’s story from Myanmar

A Burmese filmmaker focuses on human rights and feminist advocacy

Written by Exile Hub

2 weeks ago

Kenyan filmmaker Emily Nderitu shows the world how to talk about climate change in Africa

‘...Storytelling could be the missing piece…the bridge between lived experience and global policy.’

Written by Bird

3 weeks ago

‘Clean up your culture’: a TV host’s comment makes Indigenous Brazilians speak up

Host’s request for Indigenous people to hide cell phones and non-traditional clothing highlighted biased perceptions

Written by Global Voices Brazil

3 weeks ago

Words across worlds: Moharaj Sharma on language, culture, and belonging in Nepal

Sharma is a poet, journalist, and documentarian amplifying Nepali literature and diaspora voices

Written by Sangita Swechcha

15 December 2025

Nigeria scraps mother tongue education policy

‘The government’s reversal is not a rejection of Indigenous identity..but a recognition of Nigerian complexity’

Written by Abdulrosheed Fadipe

11 December 2025

Healing through music: Defying silence in Myanmar

Celebrating the strength and creativity of Myanmar’s women in exile through music

Written by Exile Hub

8 December 2025

‘Identity is never fixed. It’s layered, constantly shifting’: An interview with Iranian-American artist Soraya Sharghi

Sharghi’s journey reveals a constant dialogue between discipline and rebellion

Written by Omid Memarian

7 December 2025

Georgia marks a year of protests

Georgia's no stranger to protests, but the past year marked an unprecedented period of sustained mobilisation

Written by OC Media

7 December 2025

’I don't see Palestine as an isolated story‘: An interview with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library

On grief, land, and love in the struggle for Palestinian food and memory

Written by Thin Ink

5 December 2025

Queer cinema in Azerbaijan tells stories of visibility and survival

Modest in scale but radical in their very existence, these films document lives that have long been erased

Written by Adila Aghayeva

4 December 2025

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