Gender and sexuality

What a social media blackout means for marginalized communities

Purple Romero

Behind the scenes: our editor Purple Romero asks, can marginalized groups use social media to challenge and change the narrative?

A collage with a woman wearing a headscarf taking a selfie and a man wearing glasses looking in a screen, both their images are distorted in reflection

Ways of Seeing

Ankita Anand

Behind the scenes of our latest story: who suffers when surveillance technology is unleashed on a diverse population?

A group of women stand off with men blocking access to property. Illustration by Vikas Thakur for Unbias the News.

Women’s inheritance, the inequality that hits the world silently

Wafaa Albadry

Can society be equal without equal rights to inherit? Behind an undercovered issue that reduces women’s chances to build prosperity.

Illustration with an Indian woman who symbolically breaks open a cage that has emprisoned a group of women.

A woman who breaks all stereotypes

Ankita Anand

Behind the scenes of “I wouldn’t take no for an answer”, the story of a woman fighting for women escaping abuse in rural India.

The black-and-white illustration shows a woman carrying a cane for the blind. She turns around as four giant hands reach out to her from each direction, grabbing her hand and her cane.

When do we pause to consider consent?

Ankita Anand

Our editor Ankita Anand goes behind the scenes of our latest story, “When Help Hurts,” which asks whether people with disabilities have an equal right to consent.

Illustration by Walker Gawande in which five people stand in front of a raindbow painted wall with a purple hand and shout or sing

Visibility as Resistance: How Zimbabwe’s LGBTQI+ Community Fights Queerphobia on Social Media

Joyline Maenzanise

Once dehumanized in local media, the LGBTQI+ community in Zimbabwe are now showing how human they are – through social media.