Dezso Mate: I don’t like the word taboo because it indicates there are topics that society doesn’t want to acknowledge
Budapest-based researcher talks about how his experience as a gay Roma man has fueled his fight for acknowledgement and change.
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"Not talking about ‘taboo’ issues shows us who is leading the discourse, and why the discourse is being limited in the way that it is."
"We judge others by their social status, by their gender, and this is how our system fails."
Dafina Halili
Dafina Halili is a senior journalist at K2.0, covering mainly human rights and social justice issues. Dafina has a master’s degree in diversity and the media from the University of Westminster in London, U.K..
This story was originally written in English.