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Continue reading →: Diversity 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Even when we all put ourselves under one rainbow, we are still as diverse group of individual people as the rainbow is. As individuals, we have different needs and different wants, but as a whole, we are still sexual and gender minority when compared to our straight counterparts.
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Continue reading →: Identity 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Pride is not just about human rights. Pride is not all about the image we want to portray towards others. It is a statement that we are here to stay, and we are, finally, vocal enough to say it. But do we say it to others or ourselves?
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Continue reading →: Religion 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) That is one of the most profound messages in the Bible that there is. But is the message for everyone?
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Continue reading →: TransItionalIt was in May 2023, when I was already pondering how lucky, in a way, my wife and I were to live in Finland. Not just in Finland but in Europe. Not because of political instability, but because of legislation issues.
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Continue reading →: People 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️During this year’s Pride Month I want to try to explain what PRIDE means for me. Whilst researching for this blog text, I noticed that there are so many different meanings for PRIDE, but many of them were actually made up of sentences. But for me, each letter should have…
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Continue reading →: Take Pride? 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Welcome, June! The month of Juno, goddess of childbirth and fertility. The month that has Midsummer in the Northern hemisphere and Midwinter in the Southern hemisphere. But it is also the month that carries all the colours of the rainbow with it – the Pride Month! Each year, it seems…
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Continue reading →: Say NO to Phobias! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️17th of May is more than the Constitution Day in Norway (hooray for Norwegians!). It also commemorates the day when World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders back in 1990. And thus, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) was born.
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Continue reading →: What Makes a Person Unique?What a fantastic prompt today! This is a topic that has been circling around my brain recently, especially as I write about travel, geopolitics, and the small ways we can, and should, prepare for a world that isn’t as stable as it still pretends to be. Come, and read more…
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Continue reading →: More About TravellingI don’t think this blog would have come into existence if I didn’t love travelling. Ever since I was a wee boy, I’ve travelled the world. The first trip that I can even very vaguely remember was a trip from Finland to Hawaii, and it must have been nearing the…
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Continue reading →: Palestine ≠ Israel, or…?With the possible exception of small indigenous tribes in small islands or in the middle of a jungle, most of the globe is aware of the war in the Palestine-Israel region of the Middle East. We have been told that it is “complicated,” but is it really?
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I’m Khalil
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