"The Iraqi Social Progress Collective is conducting a study on transgender and gender non-conforming people in Iraq and is seeking anonymous community input.

No identifying information is collected, and responses are completely anonymous.

Please feel free to share this survey with anyone who may be interested in participating.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-D-GPzLyj7MMOpFh8Y7ObMTnXdwLngslmumM1snTQkTxtBA/viewform

Thank you for helping contribute to this research.

"

From Iraqi Atheists Community sever, I would really like yall to participate in this :3

Gender Identity, Transition Access, and Well-Being Among Transgende...

Participation is voluntary.
No names, emails, or identifying information will be collected.
Participants may skip any question.
Participants must be between the ages of 14 and 99

The server now has a new subreddit!

(Sorry for the constant everyone pings, but I've been doing more stuff for the server lately)

Due to how there is a lack of an inclusive kirkuki community anywhere on reddit, I decided to start my own related to this server.

In this subreddit you can contribute and talk about Kirkuk or other topics that are on your mind.

Don't be afraid to post whatever u feel like posting! (Just make sure it follows sub rules <3)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kirkuki/

r/Kirkuki

A place for Kirkukis from all backgrounds to talk about the region or other topics in!
Reddit

Happy pride month!

This month marks the anniversary of the Pro-LGBTQIA+ protests that were caused by police raiding a gay club in the USA.

This month is for everyone fighting oppression, and LGBTQIA+ people are oppressed across the Middle East, including our country, Iraq.

For this celebration, the server pfp has been changed to one of the older proposals (w the progress pride flag and colors!)

Kirkuk is for everyone.

New rules:
- Never mention your specific city (if under 300k people) or ur specific neighbourhood, street, address etc
- Never attempt to hang out with people from this server whom you don't know irl
- Never mention vulnerable parts of your identity to people who you don't know. This includes sexuality, gender identity and even ethnicity, religion or sect in some cases.

These rules are here to prevent people from attempting to ruin your life (or worse) and to protect your privacy.

Iraq is not a safe space for everyone. Even one simple interest you have can make you a target, even if its unrelated to their reasoning. News reports have shown people going undercover on social media to catch vulnerable minorities and report them to the state or militias.

Please stay safe everyone <3

Hey so, today I'm gonna talk about a heavy case that happened recently In iraq, its about honor killings. The message will be spoiled because:

TRIGGER WARNING

|| Recently, a 15 year old girl called Kawther Bashar was killed by her paternal uncle and her "fiancé", cousin for not wanting to get married to him and for escaping the house with another guy.

They were about to marry her to her cousin at 15 years old, so she decided to escape the house and her family filed a missing person's report. Many accusations were made against her, such as her having sex with the so called guy but these were all accusations, she was simply a teenager who wanted to live her life. After she was found, she was brutally murdered (see the second testimony) by her paternal uncle and cousin, as mentioned before so they can "Wash away the shame"...

According to a few testimonies:

First Testimony

​"The boy had proposed to her, and they [the family] refused. After they [the couple] fled, the boy's family and the public heard that she was engaged to her cousin. At this point, only God knows the truth. But I'm telling you, it’s true, they killed her and held a funeral procession like you saw. In their view, they 'washed their shame' just to show the world."

​Second Testimony

​"The girl is a relative of ours from the same tribe. They killed her at 5:00 AM. They struck her head with an axe, cut off her hand, and shot her three times in the heart."

​Third Testimony

​"The one who killed her is her paternal uncle. And her uncle’s son is the one who was her fiancé."

These are testimonies from her relatives and neighbours.

And do you know what they did next? THEY CELEBRATED FUCKING MURDERING HER WITH NO SHAME WHATSOEVER. AND GUESS WHAT? THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE NOTHING AGAINST THE PREPATORS.

This case is not unique in nature, though. Honour killings are always happening across Iraq, and only a few of them result in arrests. May Kawthar rest in peace 🕊️ ||

No matter who you are or what people tell you, remember to always be proud of our Governorate and heritage.
Our Governorate has thousands of years of history. We have one of the oldest maps in the world, one of the oldest water systems in the world and even one of the oldest villages in the world.
Our city, Kirkuk, has our castle as its centrepiece. This castle was built by our ancestors who cultivated these lands and settled on these green hills.

And let's not forget the other towns and villages in Kirkuk, Hawija, Dibis, Daquq, Qara injir, Taza, Yayci, Altun Kupri, Shwan etc. They're the cultural hearts of the governorate.

Nothings more beautiful than Kirkuk and the picture below was taken by me in shwan ❤

Please take this simple message to remind yourself just how much hidden beauty this governorate has.

Love yall !

Today we mourn the Halabja massacre.

This massacre was a part of the bigger Anfal campaign, and due to it we lost many of our people.

Thousands of people were killed and many lost their families, just for being a part of the Kurdish resistance against Baathism.

Today is also the day we mourn all the crimes of the baathist party and its also the One year anniversary of halabjas recognition as a governorate.

Always remember.

Being a kurd is not a crime.
Wanting freedom is not a crime.
All of these are your rights, culturally and legally.
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