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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 2d

that sounds the knell of all potentialities. Time to share something other than a heap of absences."

"I was convinced that I was living several lives simultaneously, hoping that one day I will be entering the right house."

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Of Mutual Dreams and Non-habitable Worlds

BERHANE AND MEBREK COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY MICHAËLA DANJÉ TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY NESSA KALFOU Michaëla Danjé: Since the first contribution of my collective, Cases Rebelles, to The Funambulist in...

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 2d

enduring effects.

"Since I can’t fight what has been irreparably undone, I would simply like to have time in Ethiopia, time spent at doing ordinary things, playing soccer, washing cups, to have the luxury to get angry at measly things, without thinking about the ticking of the imperial clock

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 2d

it is missing from our transnational activist analyses. In this powerful text, built on back-and-forth jumps between France and Ethiopia, they narrate their stories, while analyzing the systemic dynamics at play in displacements justified by a disastrous humanitarian grammar of assistance and their

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 2d

anniversary issue, I immediately thought of asking Berhane and Mebrek to write on international adoption. Issue 26 had already featured an article on being Black and adopted, but the specific topic of international adoption has never been broached and the positionalities of people who experienced

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 2d

Michaëla Danjé: "Since the first contribution of my collective, Cases Rebelles, to The Funambulist in 2019, I have been an attentive and regular reader of the magazine. In 2025, I even started a reading group of The Funambulist’s texts. When Léopold asked me to be one of the editors for the

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10d

"This art that I never thought I would take far, because sometimes they tell us that we are ignorant, because we are women who have no education. But put that aside. Remember that we have ancestral knowledge that our grandmothers have taught us..."

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No Es Sencillo

OLINDA SILVANO AND CORDELIA SÁNCHEZ (SOI NOMA) COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY SARA GREAVU, ANDREA FRANCKE, AND GIULIANA VIDARTE TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY MARÍA VIGNAU LORÍA Sara Greavu: The gap or…

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10d

the structures that host them and distribute their work visible? What if voices from the Global South were doing the analysis instead of producing testimony that is then analysed in the Global North?"

"I felt like I was the owner of the kené. I felt the kené in my whole body."

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10d

by appealing to specific codes that have been proved effective and seductive to an international art-world context. Giuliana suggested, what if we asked them completely different questions? What if we talked about their experiences travelling? What if instead of making themselves legible, they made

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10d

"Giuliana Vidarte raised the point that whenever Cordelia and Olinda, or anyone in the SOI NOMA collective, speak about their work, it is quickly limited to contextualizing and making it legible. It’s trapped in the eternal loop of producing legibility

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10d

Andrea Francke: "Perhaps it is inevitable that institutions in the Global North, which hold unequal power in knowledge-making and distribution, repeat colonial structures, even when well-meaning. It’s hard to escape the conditions of where thinking happens."

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Sep 8

For its 60th issue, @thefunambulist.bsky.social commemorated the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by convoking Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for these two massacres we-make-money-not-art.com/the-colonize...

The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb

The contributors of the magazine convoke Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Antonio Roman-Alcalá @antidogmatist.bsky.social · 29d

Having received my copy of this issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social in the mail, I am extra stoked and grateful to have been included in such a fantastic publication!

Thank you to @kaibosworth.bsky.social & @davidegilbert.bsky.social for this! Also the editor Leopold & all the other contributors

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

We asked ten loyal readers (some of whom are also contributors to the magazine) to play the role of editors in this issue, and commission a piece on a topic they feel has been remarkably missing from our first 60 issues’ editorial line.

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎂✨ We are happy to share our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025)!

It features ten guest editors, Michaëla Danjé, Xan Coppinger, Lissell Quiroz, Kai Bosworth, Sara Greavu, Andrea Francke, Giuliana Vidarte, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Ana María León, and Koni Benson.

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · Sep 5

«The refusal of Global North legibility is a choice.»

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Andrea Francke on ‘No es sencillo’ at @thefunambulist.bsky.social #61 the anniversary issue. On the decision of being legible in the Global North or instead, work with your local context in ways that makes sense for them.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · Sep 6

What is the power of ‘direct land politics’ today, from the Americas to SE Asia?

Me in conversation with @antidogmatist.bsky.social with guest editor @kaibosworth.bsky.social in @thefunambulist.bsky.social, a vital source for all things politics and culture.

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Direct Land Politics

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANTONIO ROMAN-ALCALÁ AND DAVID E. GILBERT COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY KAI BOSWORTH Kai Bosworth: For years, The Funambulist has examined land struggles in forests, urban areas…

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can read texts on international adoption; the relationship between ableism and settler colonialism; the politics of motherhood and the struggle against obstetric and gynecological violences; agriculture and land reform; South-centric approaches to Peruvian artistic creation;

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

This issue also features descriptions from four readers, Adam Arca, Yamina Sam, Kimberly F. Monroe, and Juli Reithinger, about the issue they deemed most useful for their work and organizing.

The cover artwork is created by Lori Micu specifically for this issue.

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The Funambulist 61 - Ten Years of The Funambulist

Ten Guest Editors Address the Magazine’s Blind Spots Across its First Decade

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

an analysis of the use of spoil tips by militants in Saint-Étienne by Thomas Goumarre; and a text on the continuity of plantation logics in Dominican Republic’s tourism industry by Luisa Jimenéz.

+ a text about the usefulness of The Funambulist’s editorial orientation by Sinthujan Varatharajah!

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

tactics to publish in fascist times; Chilean neighborhood organizing using graphic novel; and complexities and contradictions in Pan-African history.

"News from the Fronts" features a description of the Brazilian state policies regarding the country’s semi-arid region by Leonel Olimpio;

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can read texts on international adoption; the relationship between ableism and settler colonialism; the politics of motherhood and the struggle against obstetric and gynecological violences; agriculture and land reform; South-centric approaches to Peruvian artistic creation;

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can read texts on international adoption; the relationship between ableism and settler colonialism; the politics of motherhood and the struggle against obstetric and gynecological violences; agriculture and land reform; South-centric approaches to Peruvian artistic creation;

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

We asked ten loyal readers (some of whom are also contributors to the magazine) to play the role of editors in this issue, and commission a piece on a topic they feel has been remarkably missing from our first 60 issues’ editorial line.

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎂✨ We are happy to share our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025)!

It features ten guest editors, Michaëla Danjé, Xan Coppinger, Lissell Quiroz, Kai Bosworth, Sara Greavu, Andrea Francke, Giuliana Vidarte, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Ana María León, and Koni Benson.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congrats to @thefunambulist.bsky.social on 10 years of important work - I learn something new about internationalist, anti-colonial struggles every time I open it.

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