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Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, authors of 'Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds' (2024), describe the ongoing transphobic reaction in Britain, particularly crystallized by the British Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling. Against this, trans communities and allies forge

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Pra quem lê em inglês, essa é uma das melhores revistas de pensamento crítico afiado que temos hoje. Sigam.

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this was such a thought-&-feeling-provoking interview for me! i found myself longing for this approach in the states—resistant to medicalization of our self-determination, yet not shaming those who decide to embrace medical assistance, & resistant to any reductionist ideas of tr@ns care.

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - our international talks series - wraps up next week with Léopold Lambert @thefunambulist.bsky.social in conversation with @saragreavu.bsky.social. Sat 29 Nov, 7pm, IAF House More tickets released! www.eventbrite.ie/e/leopold-la... #IAFFutureHeritage

This discussion with La Liga de Salud Trans (Trans Health League) hints at a collective effort to make the demedicalization and collectivization of healthcare a field of resistance and agency for trans people in Colombia. Advocating for alternative health protocols, redress for violence, and

We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world. Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...

◆Gorashi, Omer Mohamed, 2025, "On Bulldozer Politics: An Interview with Léopold Lambert & Shivangi Mariam Raj", NoNiin, 29 (April 2025), (no-niin.com/issue-29/on-...).

In this powerful manifesto, Mikaelah Drullard advocates against the idea of humanizing trans people to favor the construction of a new ontology, that of the travestinegra (blacktravesti) outside of a humanity forged by colonial structures that simultaneously racialize and gender.

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this issue of my beloved @thefunambulist.bsky.social is dear to my heart & utterly, vitally necessary. you can order on the website if you want!

One of the many great reads in the most recent @thefunambulist.bsky.social magazine on trans communities thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...

Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face of political, ecological, and emotional collapse. Interweaving personal memories, reflections on community, grief and global crises, their letters affirm the urgent need for solidarity,

Look what arrived from @thefunambulist.bsky.social just in time to come to Outburst Queer Arts Festival, where contributor Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social will be one of the panellists for the closing Big Talk on Sat 21 Nov, on Trans Formations. Join us!

The photograph on this issue’s cover and the ones featured in these pages, were found by artist Hoo Fan Chon in an antique shop in George Town, in Malaysia. In doing research, he traced back the photos’ owner, Ava, and got to know about her through multiple meetings with her lifetime friend, Anita.

activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We are honored to begin with a text by Fusako Shigenobu. The cover features a photograph found by artist Hoo Fan Chon in an antique shop in George Town, Malaysia. Order now: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...

and militarism (Giuseppe Procida), and the misappropriation of Indigenous symbols, in particular the whipala, by the Bolivian state (Magali Vienca Copa Pabón). We also inaugurate a new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an

and the US (Dean Spade and Ohan Breiding). In the News from the Fronts section, you can read three texts about the history of Brazilian formerly enslaved people who returned to Benin and Nigeria (Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber), the long Sicilian resistance against capitalism

Contributions include reflections about/from Colombia (La Liga de Salud Trans), colonized Casablanca and Cairo (Beshouy Botros), Britain (Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha), India (Shripad Sinnakaar), newly independent Malaysia (Hoo Fan Chon and William Tham), Mexico (Mikaelah Drullard),

This issue 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.

My copy came in the mail last Friday and I’m eager to read it

"We also inaugurate a new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We are honored to begin with a text by Fusako Shigenobu."

We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world. Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...

This looks really good (due to be published Oct. 31st) and is truly #Transnational: The Funambulist (@thefunambulist.bsky.social ) no. 62: Building Trans Communities thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...

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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

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."

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...

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

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.

🎂✨ 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.

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

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. thefunambulist.net/magazine/ten...

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;

🎂✨ 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.

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. Subscribe if you don't already.

My latest is “Strategies of Invisibility (For Repressive Times)” You can get in English, Spanish and French right here: thefunambulist.net/.../strategi... . And check out @thefunambulist.bsky.social for discovering amazing thinkers and artists pushing our horizons of political possibility.

"Ten Years of The Funambulist" is going to be out in ten days from now! Until September 04, we offer the possibility to preorder the print+digital version of our forthcoming issue where ten guest editors address the magazine's blind spots across its first decade. thefunambulist.net/shop/61-ten-...

"Resistance to American military abuses of our lands on Kahoʻolawe, Makua and Pōhakuloa have politically and culturally reunited many Hawaiians, but our actual relationship to the armed services is complicated." thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

is a sobering tenor in our people’s voicing of opposition to the continuation of US occupation in Hawaiʻi, while the sheer economic importance of its 11 billion dollar annual expenditures keep local politicians relatively malleable when it comes to military prerogatives."

Hawaiian language and knowledge scholar Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio describes the US invasion and subsequent militarization of Hawaiʻi, the role the kingdom was forced to play during the Pacific War, as well as the interconnectedness produced by US imperialism.

Our new issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" is out! On August 6 and 9, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This issue convokes Indigenous perspectives from lands that were exploited for these bombings. thefunambulist.net/shop/60-colo...

Hawaiian language and knowledge scholar Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio describes the US invasion and subsequent militarization of Hawaiʻi, the role the kingdom was forced to play during the Pacific War, as well as the interconnectedness produced by US imperialism.

where dozens of thousands of them were killed by the Bomb. Lisa Yoneyama draws a line between this history back to Dene Country where we started the issue. "In contradiction to universalist representations of atomic bomb victimhood, Korean survivors have endured distinctive post-bomb trajectories

"As Monaville has recently written, ‘Colonial extractivism in Katanga literally powered the forces of the Cold War, as the nuclear arms race aggravated and foreshadowed the growing antagonisms between the Soviet Union and the United States.’" thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...