Violence is not a right, fighting it is a duty

Five stories of hate, each assigned to a card to be shared on social media, tell the story of homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, biphobia, and aphobia, precisely in the forms we encounter them every day in reality. The five stories are drawn from news stories from the last 12 months, and demonstrate how hate can change shape, appearance, language, actors, and occasions. But it's still hate, even when those who practice it claim it in the name of a misunderstood freedom, almost as if it were a right. Instead, "“Violence is not a right. Fighting it is a duty.”", reads the slogan of the campaign launched by Arcigay for May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia, and Aphobia. And to fight hatred, we must recognize it, whether in the glass of a bottle brandished to attack, or in the funeral poster with which a family humiliates their estranged daughter, or in the writing on a locker in the locker room, or on a social media wall.