'Emo' Kids Stoned To Death In Iraq
TW: violence
In February, Iraq’s Interior Ministry denounced the music and fashions known collectively as “emo” as Satanic. Shortly thereafter, leaflets began appearing in Shi’ite neighborhoods around Bagdad — Sadr City, Baya — bearing the names of local “emo” kids, urging them to give up their depravity and get right with God.
Iraq’s Unwanted People: A documentary about being LGBT in Iraq
Bradley Secker, a U.K based photojournalist, spent two months living in Damascus, Syria in autumn 2010. He spent his time locating LGBT individuals that had fled Iraq in fear of being persecuted because of their sexuality. Gaining the trust of these individuals meant Bradley could see inside the closed diaspora of Iraqi LGBT refugees first hand. His primary aim was to create a photo essay with written, first hand testimonies.
On return to the U.K, Bradley started work on ‘Iraq’s unwanted people’, a short documentary highlighting the problems faced by Iraqi LGBT individuals. The film shows two personal accounts of men living in fear as refugees in Syria. Through photos, interviews and moving image, the film hopes to pose the question as to how, and why, such acts of violence and brutality can be overlooked in a new ‘free’ Iraq.
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Source: equalitopia
Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.
Source: nonduality
