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18 September - TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND SEX WORK: AN INTERSECTIONAL REALITY OF DUAL STIGMATIZATION

Trans identity and sex work as a profession are an inseparable part of the “unrecognized” labor market in which people with a different identity work in a different profession, under different conditions. Despite the significant advances in visibility and the ability to speak openly about our id...

14 September - The Risto Shishkov Award Goes to DoloresLeo Popovic for Her Role in “Candy”

Dolores Leo Popović won the award for the best acting performance at the 32 nd edition of the“Risto Shishkov” Chamber Theater Festival, which ended last night in Strumica. She wasawarded for the role of Anya in the play “Candy,” based on the novel by Luke Davis, directed byT...

14 August - WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM MY TRANS, NON-BINARY AND FLUID FRIENDS

To write and think about transgender people, today, is impossible outside of an “us”, in which everyone is now placed. At a time when almost all the centers of power are mobilized to deny the possibility of one group to exist, the commonality of all the “outcasts” from the “guardians of no...

06 August - BRAVERY IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY’S MENTAL HEALTH, BUT FEAR IS WHAT KEEPS FOLLOWING IT

Interview with Ida Markovikj. The interview was conducted by Kai Gladkova and it was translated into Macedonian by Ivana Dragshikj. Ida Marković is a holder of a Master’s Degree in psychology, a licensed Gestalt Therapist and a doctoral student at the Faculty of Media and Communications at the De...

24 July - AN UNTOLD STORY: TOWARDS THE BEGINNINGS OF TRANS ACTIVISM IN MACEDONIA

I remember my older sister putting a tape in the video player, the 7-year-old me standing next to her and excitedly tapping my feet. Eurovision is starting to be broadcast on Macedonian Television, my sister presses the rec button. “Are you sure you pressed? Are we filming? Are we recording?” &#...