I nominate Kaos GL from Turkey because of the solidarity they built on an academic level. In 2013, Kaos GL has started running a queer studies lesson at Ankara University.

The Turkish government has started a witch-hunt on oppositional voices in the country and as a result many scholars have been purged. Ankara University has been the epicentre of the latest academic silencing. The professor who was going to run next semester’s queer studies class has lost her job.

So, Kaos GL is organising solidarity for academic freedom and sovereignty. I believe that this is a very special kind of activism in a country where opposition literally means losing your job.

Kaos GL’s work is not only this. Its support for LGBTI refugees is priceless in a country with more than 2 million Syrian refugees and no real immigration policy, and even it managed to grow its academic activities into an academic journal, the first and only of its kind in Turkey.