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Welcome to the 62nd issue of The Funambulist, the last one of 2025. Building Trans Communities is an invitation to approach trans identities and political struggles around the world through two angles: their collective dimension and their forever escape from clear-cut definitions, in particular those emerging from the West. Let’s begin with their collective dimension....

In June 2018, Lou Cornum gave a lecture for “Future Perfect” at Data & Society Research Institute in New York. In it, they drew links between several geographies and their peoples, who have been affected by the slow and accelerated deaths of uranium and the atomic bomb. They insisted more particularly in the parallel between...

Moses März is an independent researcher, writer, and mapmaker based in Berlin. After studying political science at Free University Berlin, and African Studies at the University of Cape Town he joined the editorial team of the Chimurenga Chronic in Cape Town in 2014. In 2018 he co-founded the independent publication project Mittel und Zweck (MUZ)...

Welcome to our 53rd issue! It is always a joy when we try something new. After publishing several dozen issues, the trap would consist in relying on what we do well, to stay in our comfort zone, to use methods that could be legitimately characterized as recipes… On July 18, 2023, we published a text...

In this contribution that allies research and an architectural vision, Mackenzie Luke examines the engrainment of the plantation, its enslaved labor and the sugarcane monoculture’s long-standing impact on both human and non-human ecosystems. She then explains how she envisions the architectural embodiment of the counter-plantation in the larger framework of the reparations struggle Barbadian activists...

In this text, Lauda Virginia Vargas shares with us memories of her experience as an undocumented child and young adult in Arizona, which we asked her to place in dialogue with her reflection on the last decade of violence deployed by the Dominican state against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. From the Caribbean Sea...

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON AND SABRIEN AMROV The concept of “Indigenous” is a complex and nuanced one when applied to peoples who have intimate and sophisticated political relationships with the land and waters to whom they belong and whose lives are fraught with the violence of dispossession stemming from different forms of colonialism....

On the morning of June 27, 2023, 17 year old Algerian French boy Nahel M. was murdered by a French police officer in his hometown of Nanterre (western Paris banlieue). The last words he heard were those of his murderer: “If you don’t stop I’m gonna put a bullet in your head,” and of  his...