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4 July 2017
Marvel’s Queer Latina Superhero Prompts Praise, Criticism and Everything in Between
"Labels don't make a character. CHARACTER makes a character!"
24 June 2017
Meet the Saudi Woman Who Ignited a Firestorm When She Got Behind the Wheel
Challenging prohibitions on driving in Saudi Arabia is no easy task.
29 April 2017
The Lonely Death of One of Ethiopia's Most Public Men
In Assefa’s death, one may find the sadness of exile, something which is both deeply personal and political.
18 April 2017
Kazakhstan's Great Alphabetical Distraction
Kazakhstan's veteran leader suddenly seems to think the country's long-planned transition to a Latin alphabet is very pressing indeed. The country's social media users want to know why.
9 April 2017
He Won a Trip to Space, but Can’t Move Freely on Earth
“I’m just trying to figure out the best way in order to demolish this stigma that all Muslim people are terrorists."
3 April 2017
Criminal Case Against Indian Poet Provokes Controversy Over Speech Rights
The poem was posted on Facebook on World Poetry Day — but its verses were not welcomed by everyone.
17 March 2017
After Planting the Caribbean in Our Collective Imagination, Sir Derek Walcott, ‘One of the Great Poets of All Time’, Has Died
"He showed that even the most humble village on a tiny island on the fringes of the world could be a place of epic beauty and significance."
2 March 2017
Australian Children's Writer Mem Fox Says Her Detention at US Border Was ‘Traumatic’
"America I was already furious at you but now you've made Mem Fox cry I think we're officially DONE FOREVER."
21 February 2017
A Veteran of the Malvinas War Shares His Healing Journey to the Past
War veteran Miguel Savage says there are three ways to cope terrible suffering: “block everything out, play the victim, or embrace the pain and turn it into something positive.”
13 February 2017
Palestinian Authority Bans Novel for ‘Threatening Morality and Public Decency’
The Palestinian Authority's decision to ban a novel is being met with a lot of resistance.
12 February 2017
A New Audio Uploading Tool for Crowdsourced Wiktionary Project in Odia Language
One Global Voices contributor who's passionate about the Odia language has created an open-source solution for recording and uploading words under open licenses for projects like Wiktionary.
3 February 2017
Trinidad & Tobago Says Goodbye to Cherished ‘Virtual’ Historian Angelo Bissessarsingh
"A good soldier has fallen. Inevitable but still very sad. You will be missed by a whole country. History certainly will NOT forget YOU.”
28 January 2017
Goodbye to Buchi Emecheta, Celebrated Nigerian Novelist Who Broke Gender Barriers
"Perhaps Emecheta’s grandest legacy was making us realise that feminism isn’t alien to Africa. She clearly defined African feminism as one that is different from that of the West."
21 January 2017
A Persecuted Bangladeshi Writer Gets a New Life in the US. But Exile Isn't Easy.
“I feel that I am in exile not just physically, my mind is also in exile."
17 January 2017
Writing to ‘Dismantle the Silence’ Surrounding Sexual Exploitation of Poor Young Women in Jamaica
"...for the first time, Jamaican women see their stories of sexual assault and questions of self-worth being tackled on the page without it demonizing them or portraying them as caricatures."
14 January 2017
UK Horror Writer Graham Masterton Organizes Short Story Contest for the Inmates of Poland's Prisons
“The prisoners can write about anything they like. Even though they’re locked up, I want to see them setting their imagination free.”
27 December 2016
For a Limited Time, Croatians Get Free Access to a Digital Library of 100,000 Books
Not in Croatia? The Croatia Reads app also offers people outside the country Croatian books free of charge.
16 December 2016
2016 Was the Caribbean's Year of Loss
For bloggers in the Caribbean, “2016” has nearly become an obscenity. Adjectives now used to describe this "annus horribilis" include "sucky", "terrible" and "the worst".
29 November 2016
A Bollywood Actress Inspires Hilarious Book Misinterpretations With Her ‘Animal Farm’ Gaffe
"The Hobbit is good. All children should develop good hobbits. #ShilpaShettyReviews"
22 November 2016
South Africa's Youngest Novelist, 7-year-old Michelle Nkamankeng, Wants to Inspire Others
Michelle Nkamankeng, 7, has taken the internet and the literary world by storm with her first book in a series of four, "Waiting for the Waves".
