Global Roundup: Kurdish Deq Tattooist, Peru Indigenous Women Dance Workshop, Queer Arab Representation, South Korea LGBT Awareness, India Sex-Education
Global Roundup: Kurdish Deq Tattooist, Peru Indigenous Women Dance Workshop, Queer Arab Representation, South Korea LGBT Awareness, India Sex-Education
Curated by FG Contributor Samiha Hossain Adile Şavli, Zehra Arik, Saliha Özşavlı and Fatma Arik are elders from the town of Viranşehir in the Şanlıurfa province [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera] Fatê Temel, 24, has inked hundreds of customers with deq motifs and symbols from the small one-room studio she opened in 2021 in the Sur district in Diyarbakır’s Old City, considered a historic centre for Kurdish culture.
We have a long way to go before human ignorance is dead. However, each of these round-ups give me a tiny sliver of optimism that it is possible.