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Last year, Reykjavík Bear celebrated five years of fur, friendship and increasingly ambitious bear-related shenanigans. Apparently, nobody told them to calm down afterwards.

Reykjavík Bear returns to the Icelandic capital from 3-6 September 2026, bringing together bears, admirers and friends from Iceland and around the world for four days of parties, tours, geotherma...

OPINION | Iceland has officially, and finally, lifted restrictions that barred individuals from donating blood based on their gender or sexual orientation, thanks to a new regulation from the Minister of Health. Guðlaugur Kristmundsson looks back at the fight to end a discriminatory policy and what it feels like to finally be allowed to give blood himself. Guðlaugur Kristmundsso...

Author Kris Bryant on Sapphic Romance and Coming to Reykjavík.

It took Kris Bryant twenty years to find her first sapphic romance novel. Now she has written a dozen of her own, winner of two Goldie Awards, read by women who grew up starving for the same thing she once was: a story where the queer girl gets to live, and to love, and to stay.

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OPINION | Þorbjörg Þorvaldsdóttir writes about the strength of standing together in uncertain times.

In a great song by Páll Óskar and Benni Hemm Hemm, “Eitt af blómunum”, the lyrics argue for inclusion and empathy towards people who are pushed to the fringes. One line in particular has stuck with me and gives me full-body chills every time I hear it: If you’l...