HeartCore #9 FREEDOM

Photo: Silvia Delfino By Mariya Alfa Staugaard, Editor in Chief Dear reader, It almost feels surreal. For the first time since 2019, we are getting ready to throw a Pride

Photo: Miemaja Olsson By Louise Østergaard Sørensen With this year’s theme “FREEDOM” as the jumping-off point, the culture group presentsartists from different genres, and representation has been a focal point.

Photo: Olav Holten By Mie Hald What is the first thing that pops into your mind when hearing the word “pirate”? Marauders who plunder and burn defenseless ships? Bloodthirsty murderers?

Photo: Liv Rossander By Mariya Alfa Staugaard For most people, gender is a key aspect of how they understand their identity and sense of self. Recently, we have been seeing

Af Astrid Haugaard Eriksen I have always, since I knew about sex and sexuality, been drawn to the concepts and the processes of sexual freedom and sexual liberation. Partly because

Photo: Zanele Muholi Sebenzile, Parktown 2016.© Zanele Muholi. South African visual activist Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all

Photographers: Anne Märcher og Christine Staugaard Nielsen By Mie Hald I’m staring at the email. My stomach aches. My throat is dry. Okay. This is okay, I can do this

Photo: Delia Giandeini via Unsplash By Anne Sophie Parsons “I’m out and proud” – the statement is a well-known declaration today but seemed unfathomable to say in previous decades before

Photo: Vesna Lalic IT’S THE BALKAN’S TURN TO SPARKLE AS BELGRADE HOSTS EUROPRIDE 2022 By Nicholas Chisha Pride at its core is meant to celebrate the LGBTI+ community’s rights, self-acceptance,

Photos and text by Shazia Khan ”We are all human beings. We are all equal. There is space for all of us. I’ve done everything which was requested of me,

Photo: Febiyan via Unsplash By Nikoline Heikamp She looks sweet and confident. Her name is Lea. I click through her pictures. Her profile looks a little random and messy, but