[youtube id=”lpPASWlnZIA&list=PLSfmMVczsBAieaBClLuYj6nnmmX3pGSyw”] The poetry performance “Lost Voices” addresses experiences of sexism and racism as well as (political) solidarity in the existing relationship of overlapping social inequalities: In the video, Darius Simpson, a Black man, and Scout Bostley, a white woman, tell each other’s stories. Lost Voices | Darius Simpson/Scout Bostley | USA | 2015 | English | Performance | 2,59 min.
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In her lecture “Looking at the Suffering of ‘Others’ – Flight, Solidarity and Postcolonial Social Work” María Do Mar Castro Varela describes how we can come to a new humanism via the deconstruction of current images of flight and migration. Almost casually, Castro Varela succeeds in introducing postcolonial theories and also describes possibilities for acting in solidarity with the idea of affirmative subversion. Looking at the Suffering of ‘Others’ – Flight, Solidarity and Postcolonial Social Work | María Do Mar Castro Varela | timms | 39th Social Pedagogy Day 2015: Flight. Challenges for Social Work | 2015 | Lecture |…
In her poem “For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend,” African American feminist Pat Parker talks about desires and demands for potential white friends. The first two verses from the poem (“The first thing you do is to forget that i’m black. Second, you must never forget that i’m black.”) are often quoted to make clear that neither a total focus or even a fixation on blackness nor a denial of the experiences and perspectives that go along with it can be the basis of a friendship/partnership/cooperation, but rather white people must always weigh…
In this essay, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga questions the concept of development and describes what consequences the reference has for postcolonial Africa and argues for a decolonization of the mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8 Kurzer Erklärfilm zum Thema Zustimmung zu Sex/sexual consent am Beispiel von Tee. Tea Consent | Emmeline May and Blue Seat Studios | USA | 2015 | 2 min | English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FmMJjqBEQ Der Filmclip von leftvision geht mit Hilfe von Interviews mit Aktivist*innen der Frage nach einer kritischen Perspektive auf die neuen Hilfsstrukturen an der Balkanroute, in Österreich und in Deutschland nach. Aus der Beschreibung: “…Innenansichten und kritische Perspektiven einer sich neu entdeckten “Willkommenskultur”. Auf unserer Reise über den Balkan und Österreich nach Deutschland konnten wir uns ein eigenes Bild über die Situation an Bahnhöfen und Grenzstationen machen und sind mit Aktivist*innen in Kontakt gekommen, die eine kritische Perspektive auf die neuen Hilfsstrukturen eröffnen. Dass Hilfeleistung wichtig ist, wird hier nicht in Frage gestellt. Doch erlauben wir uns in dieser kurzen…
In her book Precarious Life, Judith Butler reflects on the reactions to 9/11 and explores the question of the different valence of life. The book offers a theoretical examination of grief, violence, and the link to privilege and global power relations. Judith Butler 2004: Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. New York: verso. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is: http://www.links-lesen.de/article/1-84467-544-0
The iz3w of the Informationszentrum 3. Welt in Freiburg is a magazine that has been taking a critical stance on North-South issues since 1970. With a focus on social movements and space for discussion of postcolonial & antiracist perspectives, iz3w’s six issues per year offer many timely articles, as well as an extensive archive tracing debates from a majority-white, internationalist politics of the past decades. In addition to the magazine, the Information Center has published other interesting publications, such as the FernWeh project on tourism criticism.
ZAG is the magazine of the Antiracist Initiative of Berlin (ARI). It is published two to three times a year and is dedicated to a focal topic from current discussions of predominantly white, left-wing anti-racism, thus contributing to debate and opinion-forming. ZAG has been around since 1991; more recent issues worth reading include Police.State.Racism, Classism, and Repressive Tolerance.
The online daily newspaper Migazin: Migration in Germany focuses with its articles and commentaries on the topics of migration/integration, (anti-)discrimination and racism in Germany. The topics range from politics, law and economics to feature articles. The goal of Migazin is to promote the participation of migrants and to make so-called migrant issues accessible to the majority society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-p8dOqf3P4 Decoded ist eine Serie von kurzen Erklärfilmen zu Rassismus mit Franchesca Ramsey auf MTV. Von gängigen Abwehrmechanismen über rassistische Polizeigewalt, rassistischen Verkleidungen zu Whitesplaining findet sich eine große Bandbreite an aktuellen rassismuskritischen Themen informativ und humorvoll präsentiert.
The 2/2015 issue “Struggles of Migration as Invisible/Invisible Politics” of movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research is dedicated to current struggles of refugee protests in Europe.