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BBC Witness History

Sweden's fight for gender-neutral personal pronoun ‘hen’. Maddy Savage speaks with Nasim Aghili from the queer art collective Ful, for the BBC World Service 'Witness History' strand. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c3l

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