63 Reasons Why 2025 Wasn't All Bad

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Sometimes we all need a little reminder that the world isn’t as bad as it seems, and there are always — in between the darkness — moments of hope and light.

Here are just 63 reasons why 2025 wasn’t all bad. 🤍

1. Because our collective action for Palestine finally led to a ceasefire in Gaza.
2. Because Syria is rebuilding.
3. Because Italy officially made femicide a crime with a punishment of life in prison.
4. Because Norway passed an “only yes means yes” law that clearly defines rape as sex without consent.
5. Because France also did the same.
6. Because Austria made it a crime to send unsolicited dick pics.
7. Because Malta made period products free for all students in middle and high school.
8. Because Japan will now allow women to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription for the first time.
9. And also elected its first woman prime minister.
10. Because Ireland elected an independent left-wing woman prime minister in a landslide.
11. Because Zohran Mamdani became New York’s first Muslim mayor and showed what can happen when everyday people believe they can win.
12. Because people in Moldova elected a pro-EU party despite extreme Russian interference.

13. Because people in Romania rejected the far-right.
14. As did the Netherlands, which elected a young, openly gay leader.
15. Because same-sex marriage is now legal in Thailand.
16. Because Poland abolished its last “LGBTQ-free” zone.
17. And the EU’s top court ruled all member countries must respect and recognize same-sex marriages.
18. Because Saint Lucia found that a colonial-era law banning gay sex is unconstitutional.
19. Because South Korea officially recognized same-sex couples as spouses in national census for the first time.
20. And Italy will now allow lesbian couples who got pregnant abroad using IVF to both be legal parents of their child.
21. Because a court in Ukraine recognized a same-sex couple as a family for the first time.
22. Because a court in India ruled that trans women are legally women.
23. Because Cuba passed a law making it easier for trans people to change their gender.
24. Because the Church of Norway formally apologized to LGBTQ community for decades of discrimination.

25. Because for the first time in history, a woman will lead the Church of England.
26. Because Denmark formally apologized to women and girls in Greenland for forcibly inserting birth control devices into their bodies without their consent.
27. Because a bill rolling back Indigenous rights in New Zealand failed to pass.
28. Because Namibia made all public universities free for students.
29. Because the Pacific island of Tuvalu got its first ATMs.
30. Because Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fatah was finally freed after 14 years in prison.
31. Because a group of students from the Pacific islands refused to accept the fate of losing their homes to rising sea levels and instead rallied the entire world to get the International Court of Justice to issue a landmark ruling finding climate change is an existential threat and countries have a duty to act.
32. Because Brazil created 10 new Indigenous territories after Indigenous people held protests at COP30.
33. Because the Maldives became the first country to ban smoking for future generations.

34. Because all the members of BTS have finished their military service and announced their comeback in spring 2026.
35. Because people all across Finland played Darude’s “Sandstorm” at the same time to celebrate 25 years of the song.
36. Because an Indonesian boy danced on a boat and gave the world “aura farming.”
37. Because the threat of a TikTok ban in the US led to a hilariously wholesome culture exchange between Americans and Chinese people on RedNote.
38. Because "Johanne Sacreblu", the Mexican parody of "Emilia Pérez", showed what art can do when it’s made by the people it’s supposed to represent.
39. Because Mexico’s woman president gave the world a masterclass in how to deal with US President Donald Trump.
40. Because on the 14th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, the Syrian army dropped flowers instead of bombs.
41. Because more than 100,000 people in Hungary defied the government’s ban and held its biggest ever LGBTQ pride parade.
42. Because Australian fruit shop owner Ahmed Al Ahmed showed us that not all heroes wear capes.

43. Because in the same year the UK saw one of the largest far-right rallies in its history, locals came together to wash racist graffiti off a Chinese takeaway, answering hate with love.
44. Because a Muslim boy in India shut down a reporter trying to incite hate against Pakistan and demonstrated to the world what real moral clarity looks like.
45. Because young people in Serbia, Nepal, Madagascar, Morocco and Peru showed the world change is possible.
46. Because even in China, where protest is almost impossible, one man projected anti-government slogans onto a city wall and reminded us it’s still possible to speak.
47. Because Pope Francis had his popemobile turned into a health clinic for Palestinian children in Gaza as his final wish.
48. Because “No Other Land” won Best Documentary at the Oscars.
49. Because Palestine broke through every aspect of public life, across film, music, sports and art.
50. Because dozens of countries began to recognize Palestine and act to end their complicity.
51. And Israeli leaders began facing tangible consequences.
52. Because BDS started to work.

53. Because the UN finally declared that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, confirming what Palestinians have been saying all along.
54. Because the Global Sumud Flotilla carried the hope of millions, becoming proof that love, resistance and solidarity will always prevail, even in the face of a genocide.
55. Because the first university has reopened in Gaza.
56. Because Bethlehem is celebrating Christmas again.
57. Because Ukraine will be free.
58. Because Myanmar will be free.
59. Because Afghanistan will be free.
60. Because Sudan will be free.
61. Because the Congo will be free.
62. Because Hong Kong will be free.
63. Because Palestine will be free.

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