Per Koch

LGBTQA Refugees in East Africa Need Your Help! Nakafeero Swabulah is a lesbian leader of LGBTQ refugees i Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and in another camp in South Sudan. They need medication, shelter, food, sanitary pads, detergents, clothes and ...

1. I am leading a group of Ugandan LGBTQ refugees in a camp in South Sudan - 100 souls, half of which are children.

I do not like asking for help, but the truth is that we do not have enough for food, medicine and other necessities.

Any amount helps!

Crowdfunder: fundrazr.com/LGBTKakuma?r...

This says it and it’s exactly what it is….

Over at the magazine I am editor of there is a discussion regarding Rudolf Steiner and a local #Steiner college. Steiner was a speculative occultist. But he was also an interesting philosopher. So what do you do?

www-fpol-no.translate.goog/steinerhoysk.... (Google translation)

There is this saying: "The Devil eats his own". I am reminded of this when I see Trump and his serfs collapse i fear and confusion as his MAGA rhetoric stops working. There is still hope for American democracy. Keep on fighting!

Per Koch posted a story update on LGBTQA Refugees in East Africa Need Your Help! Those of you who have followed Nakafeero and her Uganda LGBTQ-friends for a while, know that they originally fled to Kenya and lived in the Kakuma refugee camp over there. Due to anti-LGBTQ hara...

I have posted a new post on the needs of my LGBTQ-friends in the Kakuma camp in Kenya. We need to get them out of there due to harassments and threats.

fundrazr.com/stories/5N0q...

#LGBTQ #transgender

My friend Nakafeero is asking for donations that can help her get #trans friends in Kenya to where she and her group are right now. It is relatively safer in the South Sudan camp and the chances of getting to a LGBTQ-friendly country higher.

I am part of her admin team.

#LGBTQ #transgender

Living as LGBTQ Refugees in South Sudan How is it to live as a LGBTQ refugee from Uganda in a camp in South Sudan?  Nakafeero tells the story. By Nakafeero Swabulah, Ugandan LGBTQ ...

My friend Nakafeero has published an article about how it is to be a queer refugee in South Sudan.

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2026/02/livi...

#LGBTQ

This is what makes being so human so hard: bigots who project their own fears and desires onto other groups, thinking that erasing them will end suffering. The fact is that these prejudices *cause* much of the suffering.

YouTube video by Anton Petrov World’s First Tool-Using Cow Shocked Cognitive Scientists

Scientists have tried to draw a clear line between humans and other animals. Toolmaking was the litmus test. Now we know that chimps, crows, dolphins and octopuses use tools, and now COWS. We are going to look at our burgers in a different way from now on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3o...

Canada is interviewing refugees in South Sudan Nakafeero tells me that Canada is accepting quite a few refugees from their camp in South Sudan and that her and her group of LGBTQ refugees...

I have updated the blog I manage for the LGBTQ refugees I am helping in South Sudan. I dare not to hope: Could they be accepted by the Canadians?

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2026/01/cana...

Former Norwegian Chief of Defense to Aftenposten: "USA under Trump is a Fascist banana-republic."

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

The US government is essentially leaving all organizations that are not willing to fully embrace MAGA ideology. It is as if tTrump & Co do not understand basic concepts of human interaction and learning.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? The oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like?

theconversation.com/what-were-bo...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

So the US has attacked #Venezuela and kidnapped its president. I have no sympathy for #Maduro, but Trump has essentially killed any trust the rest of the world has about the US following international law. I suspect the Danes are preparing for war now.

YouTube video by Per Koch LGBTQ refugees in South Sudan preparing Christmas meal

My LGBTQ refugee friends in South Sudan have shared some photos and videos from their holiday celebration. I cannot give you photos of the 100 people taking part for security reasons, but I can share images of the food being prepared.

youtube.com/shorts/-WmRh...

fundrazr.com/stories/2Mvu...

That was the year I was born. Great picture!

Science is based on trust. Not perfection. Trust. If you remove that trust, 1st class science becomes 3rd rate science. This is where the US is heading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/20/data-information-federal-government-trump/

https://archive.ph/fA6Tr

Here is an overview over all the articles in the latest edition of the Nordic magazine I am editing: Forskningspolitikk (Research Policy). There are some articles in English, as well.

www.fpol.no/forskningspo...

Dersom EU lempar på det digitale personvernet, undergrev dei sitt eige mål om styrka konkurransekraft, meiner den irske personvernforkjemparen Johnny Ryan.

www.fpol.no/omkamp-om-pe...

Senior-galaksenes utfordring | Forskningspolitikk Det var vitenskapsmannen Thomas Kuhn som populariserte paradigme-begrepet i boken Vitenskapelige revolusjoners struktur.  Han dokumenterte at når en disiplin står overfor en krise – i den forstand at ...

"Vi kan stå overfor et paradigmeskifte på linje med relativitetsteorien og kvantefysikken, ja. Men det er bare om man tror at all vitenskap leverer objektive fakta at dette er et problem. All læring er en prosess."

www.fpol.no/senior-galak...

Hvordan kan værdien af kunst og humanistisk forskning bedst synliggøres? | Forskningspolitikk I en tid, hvor samfundsmæssig impact spiller en afgørende rolle i forskningspolitik og -evaluering, har kunst og humanistisk forskning en særlig udfordring med at demonstrere impact, som ofte definere...

I en tid, hvor samfundsmæssig impact spiller en afgørende rolle i forskningspolitik og -evaluering, har kunst og humanistisk forskning en særlig udfordring med at demonstrere impact, som ofte defineres i økonomiske termer.

www.fpol.no/hvordan-kan-...

I am editing the Nordic magazine for #research and #innovation policy, Forskningspolitikk.

Most of the articles are in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, but you can also find some English language ones:

www.fpol.no/category/eng...

#SciencePolicy

I had some interesting discussions with my good friend professor Mark Knell regarding what makes #AI different from human intelligence. Here is the result:

www.fpol.no/the-creativi...

Follow my y friend Nakafeero, who is taking care of Ugandan LGBTQ refugees in a camp in South Sudan.

@nakafeeroswabulah.bsky.social

There is no obligation to donate, although any help is welcome.

Here's a new post from me regarding their situation:

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...

The hidden struggle for LGBTQ refugees in East Africa and beyond Those seeking refuge and safety are often silenced

Abrina has written her story about fleeing from Uganda to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and about how LGBTQ refugees are never truly free to be who they are in these camps. My story is very similar. www.washingtonblade.com/2025/10/23/t...
#lgbtq
#lesbian
#transgenders

The Creativity Illusion: Why AI Can Imitate Everything Except the Future | Forskningspolitikk Creativity has become the battleground of our technological moment. Generative AI now produces songs, images, and text at industrial scale, and many claim that machines have finally crossed the line i...

"AI’s creative process is mechanical. It detects patterns, optimizes similarities, and recombines elements drawn from its training data. Humans do something different: we redefine the problem itself."

www.fpol.no/the-creativi...

More on the LGBTQ refugees in South Sudan It is time for an update on what is happening to Nakafeero and her extended LGBTQ-family in the refugee camp in South Sudan. By Per Koch, Os...

I have written a new report on how my #LGBTQ friends in South Sudan are doing here. Yes, they still need help.

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...

The world is changing. Is it time we reimagine our universities? | Forskningspolitikk What if today’s higher education institutions are holding back their potential to prepare society for the future? The globally recognised pioneer in sustainability education, Professor Emeritus Stephen Sterling, warns that academia is currently not doing enough to change its ways. What then, must the sector do next?

What if today’s higher education institutions are holding back their potential to prepare society for the future? The globally recognised pioneer in sustainability education, Professor Emeritus Stephen Sterling, warns that academia is currently not doing enough to change its ways.

Alicia Wanless’s The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality delivers a sweeping study of how societies shape — and get shaped by — their information environments.

www.fpol.no/the-informat...