Communication, design, and ethics in practice…
This final part shows how a portable faith script travels, how media turns it into atmosphere, and how it lands inside families as warm words with cold distance. I name the mechanism, the cost, and the reason it persists in diaspora life, where belonging can be guarded, conditional, and controlled.
Part 2 explains how LGBTQ people become the price of belonging. It links Soviet era criminalization and inherited silence, the 1990s search for moral certainty, and Russia’s traditional values laws to a portable media script. In diaspora churches and families, protection language becomes exclusion, even when it sounds like love.
This blog post reflects on an online exchange about LGBTQ+ issues, highlighting the escalation of misinformation and targeted fear from individuals like Vladimir. The author counters claims that LGBTQ+ visibility equates to predation and emphasizes the importance of acceptance, compassion, and truth. Ultimately, it advocates for dignity and resilience against hate.
Mikhail Oparin 