Iris Hefets for Klassekampen (NO)

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Iris Hefets moved from Israel to Germany 23 years ago because critique about the Zionism she grew up with grew too strong inside of her and she wanted to protect her children. Now, she is thinking about having to change countries again.

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Forensic Psychiatry for ZEIT Online

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"Women should currently not work in a forensic psychatry.", says Julia Heise (name changed) who has been attacked working there as doctor. She is referring to the current conditions which have been worsening for years but are not taken seriously enough by politicians.

„Women should currently not work in a forensic psychatry.“, says Julia Heise (name changed) who has been attacked working there as doctor. She is referring to the current conditions which have been worsening for years but are not taken seriously enough by politicians. Too many patients, too little staff, too many vacant positions – all factors that reinforce each other and regularly lead to outbreaks and attacks against the people working there, oftentimes women.

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Body Identity Dysphoria for ZEIT Magazin

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Klaus suffers from a rare condition called BID (Body Identity Disphoria) which describes the incoherence of the physical and the felt body meaning that affected persons feel that certain parts of the body don't belong to them and want to get rid of them.

Klaus wants to lose his lower right leg but due to little knowledge and acceptance about this condition he hasn’t yet found a doctor who wants to legally perform this surgery on him. He fears to be stigmatized and therefore wants to remain anonymous.

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