The general consensus appears to be that this month’s COP29 climate-summit held over in Baku, Azerbaijan, was something of a damp squib right from the get-go. But why? Some point to the recent re-election of the pleasingly climate-sceptical Donald “drill, baby, drill!” Trump over in America. Some observe that perhaps it may have been sending out mixed signals holding the summit in a place whose entire economy is based upon hydrocarbons, which have been acclaimed as “a gift from God” by the nation’s President, and where gas and oil seep out of the ground so profusely that in certain areas the soil is quite literally on fire.
And, of course, yet others make another, far more plausible explanation for COP29 falling flat: there just weren’t enough queers there to make a difference.
An invitation by a mosque in Germany for girls as young as thirteen to take part in a “preparatory marriage course,” 
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LA Kauffman remembers the day hundreds of thousands of women, men and children marched in the streets of Washington. “If you’ve never been in a crowd that large, it’s hard to convey how powerful the feeling is of standing together with so many people who share your goals and that feeling of community and connection,” says the political organiser, activist and author.