In light of what's happening with the "anti-LGBT" law in Kazakhstan, I think it's important to listen to this superb podcast in Russian with the superb queer researchers/practitioners voices Salta Shoshanova and Medina Bazargali: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4F...

Bombastic new episode of YurtJurt podcast! Tune in to listen to the amazing BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...

Gavazzeni claimed “many, many, many Italians” were alleged to have been involved, without providing a figure. “There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians.”

Join us for our next RUTA webinar on family stories through art, literature, and decolonial thinking, featuring a round table conversation with Elmira Kakabayeva, Aida Sulova & Victoria Sarangova October 31, 11:00 EST / 18:00 EEST - Kyiv time Link for registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Honestly the Russian government mustn’t believe its luck of how easy this has been.

Wees welkom bij deze middag over het werk van Asja Lacis, bij boekhandel Pegasus, 30 oktober, 16.30: www.pegasusboek.nl/nieuws/post/...

nothing need be this way

Somehow very soothing, very comforting to watch www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wat een goede en belangrijke serie op de Westkrant, over armoede, en vooral solidariteit, in Amsterdam-West. "Een groepje van tien vrouwen legt elke maand een bedrag apart dat ze kunnen missen. Dit potje met een paar honderd euro gaat elke maand naar een ander." www.dewestkrant.nl/geld-op-halv...

as the year 2025 moves towards the close, people are still out there 'coining' things

A Tajik citizen married to a German gets denied asylum in Germany and is forced by immigration authorities to return to Tajikistan to apply for a family reunification visa. A few months after his return, he was abducted, tortured and killed by Tajik security services freedomforeurasia.org/2729-2/

There have been 80 documented attacks on maternity units since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and this is a read for the “it’s just a war in Ukraine not genocide” crowd. Imposing measures intended to prevent births, Article II of the genocide convention www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

👇👇👇 More info at exchanges.uiowa.edu/about-turkos... — ! Looking forward to reading so many translations all at once soon.

Kunst op komst | De tentoonstelling in De Appel onderzoekt bovendien wat er moet en kan veranderen zodat kinderen onderdeel kunnen zijn van culturele ruimtes.

Tomorrow my country will commemorate the victims of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site, clearly a colonial project of the Soviet Union to test poisonous weapons in the sacred steppe. Today we release YurtJurt podcast with anti-nuclear activist Aigerim Seitenova ❤️ Tune in!

voel ineens veel genegenheid voor het buiksloterwegpontje

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

This man made a false claim about a guy in Gaza and when confronted by both that guy and the people who have talked to him, he's ignored them. The man in Gaza said he's even willing to jump on a video call with Ton Aarts but to no avail.

⚡️Ukrainian artist killed on front lines in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukrainian artist-turned-soldier David Chychkan was killed at the age of 39 while repelling a Russian attack on the frontlines in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, his military unit announced on Aug. 10.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Russia has made €900B from fossil fuels since invading Ukraine – money fueling its war. To dodge sanctions, it built a “shadow fleet” of old tankers. Western shipowners made $6B selling ships to this fleet.

Kamchatka: Indigenous land (of ao Koryak, Aven, Itelmen, Chukchi), stolen by russia

Mensen komen samen, maar ieder afzonderlijk gezicht blijft een merkwaardige introversie uitstralen.

"I witnessed the IDF shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population" www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence. Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.

Victimhood is not for real victims, it is a label or tool those in power can use to either advance themselves, their means, their goals within society's current structures, or to demean, discredit, dehumanize others

An observation that stayed with me, is that affluent Dutch (white) people got compensated more easily for their internment in Japanese WW2 camps, as they could present a coherent story with a list of material losses

"Suddenly, everyone stopped being Russian, but continued to defend their professional right to speak on behalf of the entire region of the former Russian colonies." Lia Dostlieva, always spot on: www.eurozine.com/not-epistemi...

Not a single European country responded to the SOS of a sinking metal boat carrying 50 people including children. Were it not for Sea Watch, they would have drowned. Europe doesn’t need a Trump. This is already the norm. www.instagram.com/reel/DLu9XXm...

“Bewilderment,” she writes in The Wedding Dress (2003), is both “a poetics and a politics” www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

We know that Israeli forces torture Palestinian medics because both Israeli forces and Palestinian medics have told us

BREAKING The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations. This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.

Those campist idiots who think all Ukrainians are anti-Palestinian should be at the conference in Ukraine where I am currently. Talking to and socialising with Ukrainians, plus other victims of Russian imperialism from Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Lithuania, Georgia, Chechnya,

know almost nothing about the Muslims of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Crimea, Dagestan, etc etc... If they did they would understand that Russia's empire is as racist and genocidal as any other.

It is interesting too to meet Muslims from places like Kazakhstan - a people who suffered a forced famine genocide under Russian rule. The iron curtain separating Muslims under the Russian boot was more solid than the curtain separating east and west Europe. Muslims elsewhere

Ondertussen is dit mooie boekje verschenen, een kennismaking met leven, denken, werk van Asja Lacis in twee vertalingen en twee essays: tijdschriftterras.nl/product/kind...

Artists have long been addressing nuclear waste & testing on Palestinian land: "The number of sheets used while creating each image corresponds to the site’s recorded quantity of Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear reactors and weapons." www.bostonartreview.com/read/issue-1...

Nederlandse kunsttijdschriften zitten in zwaar weer doordat het Mondriaan Fonds, dat ook de kunstkritiek moet ondersteunen, weigert structurele subsidie te geven aan de dagelijkse kosten. ‘Het fundament brokkelt af.’ Lees het stuk van Laurens Otto op Platform BK www.platformbk.nl/kritiek-in-c...

The familiar IDF maps are back, now with Tehran instead of Gaza or Lebanon and Farsi instead of Arabic. This massive area of Tehran is being threatened.

zie nog steeds antieke viral tweets als eigen gedachtegoed voorbijkomen in columns en romans, of dat is wat ze op de kunstacademie intertekstualiteit noemen

Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. In Ecocide in Ukraine, @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social offers the first account of the devastation of Ukarine’s biodiversity and ecosystems. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

De Poolse kunstenaar Magdalena Abakanowicz onderzoekt de grens tussen textiel en sculptuur en die tussen mens en materiaal. Alles bestaat volgens haar uit vezels.

have forsaken my to-do list, my inbox, my little deadlines to read a long essay on the semicolon by the inimitable Gerald Murnane

Besprak het 'drieluik' aan exposities van en over de Poolse Magdalena Abakanowicz, die fascinerende, enorme textielsculpturen maakte; de grootste daarvan hangt al een halve eeuw in een ambtelijke vergaderzaal in Den Bosch. Nu dan eindelijk hernieuwde erkenning. www.groene.nl/artikel/ondo...

Het Asja Lacis- boekje is er bijna! Presentatie (samen met het Baltische nummer van tijdschrift Terras) 17 juni, 1900 bij Marci Panis, Amsterdam. Voor de liefhebber is het hier vast te reserveren: athenaeumscheltema.nl/a/asja-lacis...

Le service archives de CEA n’a déclassifié que 380 docs en 4 ans. « Le CEA n’a absolument pas les ressources humaines pour traiter correctement leur système d’archive », a justifié le ministre des armées Ça fait 40 ans que le CEA chante cette chanson au lieu d’embaucher davantage d’archivistes 🤔