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We are queer and our work is grounded in everyday realities of our community. We are certain that solidarity within and beyond queer community is the key for any real change to happen. We work for and with journalists in 10 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Journalism is a socially engaged work, hence we ally with activists and advocates who work with LGBTIQ+ issues. With educational, journalistic and research projects, we facilitate discussion about queer issues on the national level and beyond.
Initiated by the journalist Ali Feruz (Novaya Gazeta) in 2018, Unit was developed by n-ost, a network for border crossing journalism based in Berlin. Our main focus and activities include:
Support for journalistic publications on LGBTIQ+ issues in the project countries
Cross border collaborative projects
Community building among journalists, editors, and human rights activists — online and during personal meetings conducted in the region.
In October 2023, we presented the book “Queer stories from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and South Caucasus” at the meeting of our network in Krakow, Poland.
For our monthly newsletter, we pick the most important news and analysis, and add selected content and art from queer creators from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and South Caucasus.
We aim to support the production of high quality journalistic publications that fight clichéd, stereotypical and homophobic representation of queer community. We support journalists with a strong interest in queer journalism without regard to their previous experience in covering LGBTIQ+ topics. We will provide them with guidance, methods and the resources of our network.
Some of the recent writing that stems from current n-ost projects and members.
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