{"id":6596,"date":"2020-06-15T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.whomakesthenews.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/lgbt-iqa-storytelling-queer-archive-project\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T04:23:23","slug":"lgbt-iqa-storytelling-queer-archive-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/lgbt-iqa-storytelling-queer-archive-project\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT*IQA Storytelling- Queer Archive Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><em>A WACC partner initiative<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpzVhhjqdXs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Throughout the conflict and post-conflict period (1990s-2016) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), ethno-nationalist politics and practices reinforced stereotypical and rigid gender and sexuality roles, resulting in the marginalization of women, minority groups, and LGBT*IQA persons institutionally, economically and socially. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">In a groundbreaking initiative to bring visibility to the intersections of gender, sexuality and war during the conflict period, the LGBT*IQA&nbsp;Association&nbsp;Okvir with support from WACC Global curated&nbsp;the stories of survival of LGBT*IQA persons and refugees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">The archive documents&nbsp;LGBTQ struggles in the Balkans over the past quarter century, with&nbsp;testimonials of 29 activists from Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia during the war and post-conflict years. The archive contains audio visual&nbsp;materials,&nbsp;knowledge maps of LGBTQ rights defenders, digital archives and a digital timeline of LGBTQ issues in the region. The materials have been shared widely via social media, in a travelling exhibition, in public events, community and mainstream media outlets, and an event at the national museum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">The project led to a collaboration with <em>Whose Knowledge?<\/em>, a global campaign that aims to correct the skewed representations of knowledge on Wikimedia projects as well as the wider internet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">The archive is now the main source of historical memory on LGBTQ movements in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Listen to the stories, watch the documentaries and learn more about the archive&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvirarhiv.org\/en\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">A WACC&nbsp;partner project by <span style=\"caret-color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">LGBT*IQA&nbsp;Association&nbsp;Okvir to develop an archive of&nbsp;<\/span>LGBTQ struggles in the Balkans during the 1990s-2016 war and post-conflict years.&nbsp;Bringing visibility to the stories of survival of LGBT*IQA&nbsp;persons and refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,78,160,96],"tags":[82,83,95,121],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-blogposts","category-news","category-publications","tag-blogposts","tag-campaigns","tag-europe","tag-lgbt-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}