The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday March 31st, 2022 – International Transgender Day of Visibility
International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society. The day was founded by transgender activist Rachel Crandall of Michigan in 2009 as a reaction to the lack of LGBT recognition of transgender people, citing the frustration that the only well-known transgender-centered day was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which mourned the murders of transgender people, but did not acknowledge and celebrate living members of the transgender community. The first International Transgender Day of Visibility was held on March 31, 2009. It has since been spearheaded by the U.S.-based youth advocacy organization Trans Student Educational Resources.
Will #Malaya one day secede from #Malaysia? Is project Malaysia in long term danger? by Murray Hunter
There is a clear danger the Federation of Malaya may one day secede from Malaysia. This is not as far fetched as it seems. The Ketuanan Melayu (Malay Supremacy) narratives have become so contrary to concepts of inclusiveness, multi-culturalism, diversity, freedom of religion, and even democracy, that other ethnic groups living within Malaysia are feeling estranged, alienation, and marginalized to the body politic of the nation. This is not only a feeling within the people, but the state political elites of both Sabah and Sarawak both privately share these concerns.
A cultural hegemony has descended upon Malaysia and threatening the very basis of multi-culturalism, the prime tenant project Malaysia was conceptualised and agreed upon. Alternative ideologies and views of Malaysia are subverted and suppressed, with the federal government overtly pursuing Malay-centric policies, wrapped up within Bumiputera initiatives in fiscal policies and development priorities. The backbone and policy implementor of the government, the civil service is clearly committed to the so called ‘Malay agenda’, severely damaging the nation’s aspirations of multi-culturalism.
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Haphazard Revolutionaries Seek Leader #poem by Saloni Kaul
“As though at the behest of some primeval thinking force,
A distant sun’s haze is astonishingly there agleam ,
Vying with these shapechanging clouds for form
Like sharp forecasts, predictions fetched from dream.”
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Aroused by Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the losing end, sentiments are rather different. Complicity and cause in murder come to mind.
The late US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will always be tied with the appallingly named humanitarian war in Kosovo in 1999, one that saw NATO attacks on Serbian civilian targets while aiding the forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). It was a distinct backing of sides in a vicious, tribal conflict, where good might miraculously bubble up, winged by angels. Those angels never came.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #009 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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