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The ‘Satanic Panic’ Is Back: How a Bygone Moral Crisis Returned With Queer Artists In Its Crosshairs
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The ‘Satanic Panic’ Is Back: How a Bygone Moral Crisis Returned With Queer Artists In Its Crosshairs

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Editor’s note: this look at American culture is here for your research into “Satanic Panic.”  On Feb. 6, 2023, certain corners of the internet could not stop talking about Sam Smith and Kim Petras. The night prior (Sunday, Feb. 5), the pair took home a Grammy Award for best pop duo/group performance, marking the first-ever…

Pakistani film on forced conversions bags award at Cannes – NewsIn.Asia
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Pakistani film on forced conversions bags award at Cannes – NewsIn.Asia

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By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 3: A Pakistani film documenting the issue of forced religious conversion in the Sindh province of Pakistan has won an award at the Cannes World Film Festival in the Best Human Rights Category for the month of November 2022. Made by Jawad Sharif, it is based on real events involving four…

The other Albanian migrant crisis
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The other Albanian migrant crisis

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All of this poses a puzzle: if legal emigration to other destinations is a possibility, why is there such desperation to reach the UK? And why now? One explanation relates to chain migration and the UK’s labour shortages. The UK hosts a large diaspora from Albania’s poorest region, Kukes County. That attracts relatives and acquaintances…