The water war: David and Goliath
This podcast tells the inspirational story of a grassroots protest in Bolivia. When their municipal water supply was privatised, the people of Cochabamba joined together to fight for their rights.
Disconnected: The story of Zimbabwe’s internet shutdown
When Zimbabwe erupted in protests, Anoshamisa Gonye found she was unable to communicate with her cousins there due to an internet shutdown. In this podcast she asks why governments are increasingly silencing the internet in times of civil unrest and what can be done when lines of communication are cut.
Her Story
In this powerful poem spanning a year in the life of a sexual abuse survivor, our 16-year-old writer describes the impact of abuse and raises questions about the way the legal system handles these crimes. The teenage writer is the joint winner of the University of Warwick’s fourth annual Writing Wrongs Schools’ Competition, organised by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice. She reworked this winning article during her internship with Lacuna Magazine.
Doorways: Homeless women’s stories of trauma and resistance
“People might speculate on why someone might end up homeless – mental health issues, substance misuse, debt, abuse, relationship breakdown – but very few people understand the day-to-day experience of being homeless.”
Editor's pick
“Never again”: The defiant Rohingya of Bradford
“The international community always says never again”, says Salah Uddin, a Rohingya man born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, “but we are letting genocide happen in the 21st century.” In Bradford, we meet the founding members of the British Rohingya Community speaking from the first office used and run by a Rohingya-led organisation anywhere in the world.
Lacuna Magazine is proud to publish stories by younger writers. Here is a selection of stories from school pupils, university students and recent graduates.
“I was a homophobic teenager before I realised I was gay”
Like many LGBT people across the UK, this year’s spate of homophobic attacks has left me hurting. It’s also forced me to reflect on my past, as I’ve noticed a worrying pattern with these incidents – the involvement of young people.
