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What drives people to stand up for change? This issue explores the personal experiences behind protest, solidarity, and social movements across Europe. Through stories of identity, disability, migration, and culture, our writers reveal how individual lives are shaped by wider social and political forces—and how collective action can help build a more inclusive Europe.

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The ‘Posto Fisso’ Nomadism

In a country shaped by decades of economic shifts, there is one phrase that ...

Who Owns Culture? The AfD and the Future of Cultural Life in Eastern Germany

Culture rarely dominates election campaigns. Inflation, migration and security usually attract far more attention ...

Self Consent, Self Boundaries: Seeds of Collective Liberation

Post-#MeToo and post-pandemic, we’ve become far more fluent in the language of consent and ...

The Broken Promise of Disability Equality

On the 14th of June 2016, the Netherlands signed a United Nations(UN) convention meant ...

Context Shapes the Dancefloor

You can find them bouncing to hard bass beats in parks or facilitating outdoor ...

Trombone Player

Beyond the Trombone: Hearing Yourself After The Music Stops

For most of his life, Jonathan knew exactly how to answer the question: Who ...

Discoball

When Music Speaks What Language Cannot

  A few weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend what, I believe, ...

Seven Minutes of Freedom: Why Does a Song Stay With Us?

  There was something uniquely exciting about Hungarian electronic music in the 2000s – ...

Sofa so Good: One of the Bands Ever

  Around me are roughly a hundred people, all of them full of energy, ...

Singer Maxx

Still Flesh and Blood – Making Music Beyond the Mainstream

From stage fright to self-expression: Berlin musician Maxx discusses songwriting, depression, streaming, and finding ...

Lana del Rey and Dolly Parton for Prime Minister

  I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but Dolly Parton and ...

Glitch 37

The Mask and The Mission: How glitch 37 is Redefining the Bulgarian Scene

What happens when you fuse a 25-year-old sci-fi cinematic classic with a live, original ...