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...

"This work recomposes uranium into coloured abstracted forms in yellow and red and superimposes them on top of a black and white image of an atomic bomb mushroom cloud, suggesting that exploitation of such underground geological formations, often via coerced labour, paved the way for nuclear war."

Sammy Baloji's present work, 'Shinkolobwe’s Abstraction' (with Pedro Monaville), links the Belgian uranium extraction in Katanga to the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The introductory text was written by Oliver Fuke for a recent exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024).

as well as the inseparable nature of indigenous peoples and societies from the geopolitical strategies which inherently exploit them and their ancestral lands. These micro-level realities often sit in the periphery of world powers as they justify their politically-driven military agendas."

"Following the Manhattan Project, the United States went on to conduct nuclear tests in what was identified as the “Pacific Proving Grounds,” sites in the Pacific Ocean where a total of 67 nuclear weapons were detonated between 1946 and 1962." thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, two US military aircrafts left the south Mariana islands of Tinian and Guåhan and went on to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the two decades that follow, the fallout of the 67 US nuclear bombings (designated as “tests”) in Micronesia led to deadly health

On August 6 and 9, 1945, two US military aircrafts left the south Mariana islands of Tinian and Guåhan and went on to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the two decades that follow, the fallout of the 67 US nuclear bombings (designated as “tests”) in Micronesia led to deadly health

Sammy Baloji's present work, 'Shinkolobwe’s Abstraction' (with Pedro Monaville), links the Belgian uranium extraction in Katanga to the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The introductory text was written by Oliver Fuke for a recent exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024).

The “Dig Up the Sun” map created by Roger Peet in 2022 is featured on the cover of our latest issue. It shows the interconnection of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Euro-American colonialism, and the extracted colonized land, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"By exceeding the limits of the perpetrator-victim binary, this criss-crossing of the nodes of the nuclear Pacific allows something unexpected yet powerful to emerge." thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

"Korean hibakusha testified in Chicago about the world-shattering aftermath of the bomb and its mutagenic effects. In calling for a nuclear-free world, they have focused on the United States, their supposed liberator from imperial rule, describing the 1945 US atomic bombings as “the original sin.”"

The 1945 defeat of Japan was meant to signify Korean liberation. In Manchuria, anticolonial and communist Korean guerillas were joined by the Soviet Union and Mongolian armies in August 1945, and proceeded to oust the Japanese from Korea. The US, however, imposed a partition of the peninsula...

in the extractive geographies of Canada, what I aim to illuminate here are its insidious aims to dispossess Indigenous peoples of an ontology of solidarity, reciprocity, and obligation borne of the land." thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

The latter can be seen as a formidable introduction to a land-as-relationship cosmology (and its subsequent ethical obligations) in opposition with the colonial land-as-property paradigm. "While the aims of settler colonialism to continually dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands are clear

This entire issue’s idea came after listening to Glen Sean Coulthard describe the 1998 visit of a group of Dene people to Hiroshima, during which the Indigenous delegation formally apologized to the city’s residents for the role their land and labor played in the US nuclear bombing of the city.

Through this commonality, they coined the manifesto notion of “Irradiated International” that links communities and nations evoked throughout this issue. As such, it was important for us to include an excerpt (the final third) of Lou’s lecture in it. thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

They insisted more particularly in the parallel between the history of Dene workers of Port Radium and that of their own Diné elders—despite being geographically distant, Dene and Diné (Navajo) people share an Athabaskan language—who were subjected to similar deathly radiation.

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.

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.

This entire issue’s idea came after listening to Glen Sean Coulthard describe the 1998 visit of a group of Dene people to Hiroshima, during which the Indigenous delegation formally apologized to the city’s residents for the role their land and labor played in the US nuclear bombing of the city.

J'adore la plage, dans 20 / 30 ans y en n'aura plus 😐 (Lecture de plage : @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🖤)

The 1945 defeat of Japan was meant to signify Korean liberation. In Manchuria, anticolonial and communist Korean guerillas were joined by the Soviet Union and Mongolian armies in August 1945, and proceeded to oust the Japanese from Korea. The US, however, imposed a partition of the peninsula...

The “Dig Up the Sun” map created by Roger Peet in 2022 is featured on the cover of our latest issue. It shows the interconnection of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Euro-American colonialism, and the extracted colonized land, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

When talking about colonized people who found themselves involved against their will in the US military infrastructure that culminated in the 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is crucial not to elude colonized Korean laborers who were displaced under duress from Korea to Japan,

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When we asked Jennifer Marley to reflect on the connections between Tewa land, stolen by the US settler colony for the construction of the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Hiroshima–Nagasaki, she told us that she had recently been in touch with Radiation and Revolution author Sabu Kohso.

"The uranium deposit at Shinkolobwe, when taken up and transmuted by the US Army’s corps of scientists and engineers, became the source of a power that had never before existed on Earth: the power to end everything, and to deny the future to every comer..." thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...

"...that had been used two decades previous to design, develop, and detonate the first atomic bombs. The idea of Shinkolobwe passing out of US and Belgian control and into the hands of Africans was unacceptable to Western authorities, and they had closed it when Lumumba took power."

A few years before us, Roger Peet mapped the interconnection of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Euro-American colonialism, and the extracted colonized land, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A few years before us, Roger Peet mapped the interconnection of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Euro-American colonialism, and the extracted colonized land, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The big Shinkolobwe map is on the cover of @thefunambulist.bsky.social this month! thefunambulist.net/magazine/col...