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Aug 2022
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Sweden’s pronoun battle

Bbc World Service
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Sweden has a long history of championing LGBTQ+ rights. But campaigners spent years battling to get the gender-neutral personal pronoun ‘hen’ included in Swedish dictionaries. The word was finally added in 2015. Maddy Savage spoke to Nasim Aghili from the "queer" art collective Ful, which rallied to get the word recognised. This is a Bespoken Media production for the BBC World Service.

(Photo: Nasim Aghili. Credit: Thomas Straub)

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