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Moien everyone! Our next brand new Issue 10 is OUT NOW🖇️🫶🏻

Made with love, rage, care, and community.
Thanks to everyone who made this possible.
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A Crisis for Some,A Policy for Others
Reflections &
Photo Series

By Ahmed Gul / and Jang Kapgen /

Two days before Ahmed and I set out for the Northern
French coast, a notification popped up on our phones.
It was Méryl Sotty, communications manager at Doc-
tors without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières/ MSF)
France. We had been in contact with her prior to our
3-day press trip to Calais. Her message read:

"We’ll ask you Ahmed not to show your camera from
the beginning of the visit. [...] Calais is a very complex
context. There have recently been some attacks from
UK far-right activists, who were violent with migrants
and filmed them, so the presence of a camera can
generate fears and tensions".

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Q***r Eye: Trail EditionHiking Tour du Mont B

by Ahmad H. A. / .20.01

A F T E R A B I T of hesitation about our one-year-anniversary trip, my boyfriend and I finally decided to do the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB)—a 9-11 day hike around Mont Blanc, that takes you through the beautiful landscapes of France, Italy, and Switzerland. We had only two weeks left to prepare, which is to say: we didn’t really prepare at all.
Most of our hiking gear came from our parents: 80s backpacks, old K-ways, some used hiking poles, and my brother-in-law’s festival tent.

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Le premier ba**er, c’est celui qu’on avait imaginé mille fois. C’est celui qu’on a tellement espéré, parfois désespérément, celui qu’on attendait presque religieusement, avec une impatience fébrile, celui qu’on redoutait aussi. Il nous a chamboulé·es, surpris·es, parfois un peu déçu·es… mais il restera pour toujours un souvenir précieux de nos tendres années.

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Rari is a graphic designer, filmmaker, writer, and actress who has called Luxembourg home for the past two years - part of a new wave of talent shaping the Grand Duchy's creative industry and emerging q***r subcultures. An interview by Rodrigo Costa Ribeiro.

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Ein*e Leser*in schreibt: 
„Hiii! I currently want to look for a psychologist, but I do not know where to start. I am q***r and am worried that my psychologist will not understand me. Do you have any advice on how to go about this?“

Kelly Kosel, Sexualpädagog*in und Referent*in im Bereich Bildung und Antidiskriminierung, antwortet mit einer hilfreichen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung.

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Cinema Love: Between Rue du Fort Neipperg and the Workers’ Cinema. 一篇不同寻常的书评.

By Michal Huštaty /

Cinema Love, Jiaming Tang’s debut novel, unfolds between rural Fuzhou in the 1980s and the streets of New York’s Chinatown. Tang’s world of migration, q***rness, and quiet resilience could exist anywhere that people cross borders and carry secrets. It belongs as much to Luxembourg as to New York. A book review and interview with the author Jiaming Tang.

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The Military and Feminism – Interview with Mariam Tchantchalishvili

Content exchange with Minority Azerbaijan/

F E M I N I S M A N D the military represent two seemingly disparate realms. Feminism, however, raises critical questions about the military and gender equality, representation, and the evolving role of women in armed forces. A Q&A interview with Mariam Tchantchalishvili, a sociologist and specialist in gender studies, and program manager at the Women's Foundation in Georgia.

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A Pulse in the Time of War
by Ralph Ajaj
Illustration /

O N A N A U T U M N day, Ralph entered his new barracks, hopeful for a better life. The post was close to his home, far from the tragedies of his previous assignment, where officers mocked him, questioned his competence, and turned him into a symbol of failure. Even his
peers secretly pitied him, calling him the oppressed one.

This story is adapted from an autobiographical account and is set in Syria during the Civil War.

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In Belarusian schools, from the first grade, we were taught: “Belarus is the heart of Europe.” Our teachers meant, of course, the geographical position of the Republic of Belarus on the European continent. But the philosophical meaning of this phrase has long since taken on a cruel, humorous-sarcastic tone. Being “Europe’s last dictatorship” and the last European country with an authorised death penalty (the last recorded ex*****on took place on December 17, 2022). It is hard to believe that this state could be anyone's heart.

Flowers Through Concrete: Q***r Lives in Belarus - q***r.lu Flowers Through Concrete explores q***r lives in Belarus—resilience, resistance, and survival under repression.