Tag: audio-negative-tragedy

Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe

Decisions like these, involving people who almost certainly cannot give express consent, hang over the sterilization debate. Katrin Langensiepen, a German politician and one of the few visibly disabled members of the European Parliament, is pushing for a strict Europewide ban on nonconsensual sterilization. Many of history’s notorious eugenics practices, she said, were justified as […]

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Israel Is Denying My Children a Future

As Israel’s military demands that people leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Fadi Abu Shammalah, a Palestinian resident, asks, “How many Gazan families will be obliterated?” In this audio essay, recorded from a refugee camp in Gaza, Abu Shammalah shares his experience trying to evacuate his wife and young children while bombs destroy […]

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