The Dishwasher is the blog for the magazine of the same name ‘For Studying Working Children’. The website features “articles on social selection in education, educational disadvantage, and classism in education and other fields.” (project self-description). Individual articles from the magazine are available for download in the blog.
Author: glokal e.V.
The Refugee Radio Network (RRN) is an online radio program by refugees. Under the motto “Empowering people and connecting cultures”. the station makes the voices of refugees and migrants heard. The online program, which is being designed in Hamburg, is primarily – but not exclusively – aimed at refugees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The station is part of the independent Refugee Radio Awareness Network project, which promotes human rights and development. The aim of the radio program is to promote peace and human dignity: “Information should help people to defend themselves against discrimination, as well as to…
“It’s about emancipation, about how privilege works, and about space to breathe. […] I want theories to be understandable,” says the illustrator and author of the website. The blog is a place full of emancipatory comics and alternative grammar.
The website of Andreas Kemper – researcher of classism and founder of the magazine “The Dishwasher”- contains lectures and articles on the topics of classism, biopolitics, social philosophy and gender.
The Girls’ Team is a queer feminist blog by a collective of writers. By their own account, the team notes things and news that make them happy or raise the hairs on the back of their necks. In the blog, topics are considered from different social positionings and repeatedly from an intersectional point of view. In particular, the links between racism and sexism in Germany are a recurring focus.
Anarchy and Lihbe is a blog about everyday life, culture and media from a (white) feminist perspective. The author now blogs primarily on Techno Candy more.
“Amaro Foro e.V. is a youth association of Roma and non-Roma with the goal of creating space for young people to become active citizens through empowerment, mobilization, self-organization and participation.” (Amaro Foro self-description). The organization runs a counseling service in Berlin for Romanian and Bulgarian Roma as well as an educational program for immigrant elementary school children.
With the ironic title Africa is a Country, the creators of the blog take aim at the one-sided and distorted perception and representation of Africa that is widespread in the “West”. The bloggers counter with media criticism, alternative knowledge and present ideas and diverse works that challenge traditional and ahistorical ways of looking at things.
Learning from History is an educational portal on the history of the 20th century. Teaching and learning materials on important topics, people or events can be identified using the search function. In addition, in other areas, international expert contributions can be discussed or web seminars can be attended, which are supervised by experts.
Migrante International is an organization that advocates for the rights of migrants and works against their discrimination and exploitation. The core topics of its work are law and social welfare, campaigning and advocacy, education and research, networking and cultivating international cooperation.
In Plantation Memories, Grada Kilomba episodically describes and contextualizes experiences of everyday racism of Black people in white-dominated, post/colonial societies. Her analysis incorporates approaches from psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, working with concepts such as “trauma” and “memory.” “Everyday racism […] is experienced as a violent shock which suddenly places the Black subject in a colonial scene – depriving one’s link with society. Unexpectedly, the past comes to coincide with the present and the present is experienced as if one were in that agonizing past, as the title Plantation Memories announces.” (Quote from the publisher’s description). A work based on the…
After a Black trans* person was discriminated against by bathers present at the Stadtbad Neukölln (Berlin), the Initiative Schwarze Menschen (ISD) Bund e.V. addressed an open letter to the Stadtbad Neukölln as well as the Berliner Bäderbetriebe: Appalled about the treatment of a black trans* person in the Stadtbad Neukölln on 03.11.2015 On Tuesday, 03.11.2015 a Black Trans* person visited the Stadtbad Neukölln at 11 am accompanied by a person. Both people decided to use the women’s area of the locker rooms according to their positioning, but also because there are no other options available. In the locker room, there…