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Just wanna share a recent thing that happened to me. I was invited to attend a summit in France in 3 weeks. I told them I need the funding to travel and support for visa RIGHT NOW, if they want to bring me.

For people with privileged passports, you need at least a month for a visa to be processed. We cant just pop up at the airport like most of you do.

So this institute said they want to bring 'Global South' (I hate this term) voices to the summit. Cool. But they want the 'Global South' people to have an existing visa in Europe. Where the hell do u find these people? Do random aid workers in Timbuktu just apply for random Schengen visa for fun? Or a 'global south' person with a European passport?

If you want to bring people from poorer countries, you need to engage well in advanced and ensure people get their visas on time. Or you will perpetuate visa apartheid to global events. Global events are already dominated by people from rich countries whose voices seem to matter more than the rest of us.