ABSTRACT
Visualizing human rights and conflict has become central to contemporary and collective understanding about what human rights are, how they are created and how they can or cannot be protected. In investigating the relationship between politics, human rights and communications, this chapter first engages with the main debates and dilemmas that have dominated the field of human rights rhetoric. It then presents a number of digital artifacts of political engagement and cultural resistance practices of Italian LGBTQI actors, showcasing how the latter have successfully negotiated and re-envisioned the focus of their messaging, narratives and discourses, shifting from awareness-raising of human rights abuses and suffering, to building empathy and solidarity, promoting alternative behavior, and championing positive action.
