mangoes & bullets is for anyone who wants to engage with racism and other relations of domination, seeking inspiration for resistance and alternatives. Here you will find, among other things, films, songs and poems, but also information about campaigns and political activism. These materials challenge injustice from different perspectives and in different ways.
A sigh, two quenched eggs, the bubbling of boiling water: this is how Sharon Dodua Otoo’s text begins, for which she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the 2016 “Days of German-Language Literature” in Klagenfurt.
The online magazine calls itself a “Network for local and global Sounds and Media Culture.” and writes about itself: “Norient searches worldwide for new music, sounds and noise. It discusses current viewpoints of the music world critically, from different perspectives and always close to the musicians and their networks.(…)”
Colonialism, space, post-racist future: Simone Dede Ayivi’s performance in Berlin’s Sopiehensälen tells at the same time about today, about the past and about another tomorrow, because: “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travels”.
The campaign was initiated in 2016 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London by students and faculty.
Afrofuturist, filmmaker, and activist Amadine Gay’s documentary assembles the experiences of Francophone European Black women in the diaspora into a multi-layered collage about Blackness, art, racial discrimination, and the reappropriation of one’s own narrative.
The PENG! Collective writes on the website of their “Haunted Landlord” campaign to resist rent increases, gentrification and eviction: “With this action we want to make this area-wide, structural problem visible and audible through personal stories and confront those responsible directly with the voices of the displaced and the consequences of their actions.(…)”
Brooklyn artist KRTS’s music video addresses police violence in superimposed, fast-cut found footage images.
The international online database for female, transgender and non-binary DJs, musicians, composers, producers, visual artists, journalists, researchers and facilitators in the field of electronic music and digital arts exists since 1998 and was founded by the Viennese Electric Indigo.
This interview by Annie Goh with Alexander G. Weheliye is subtitled “Untuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno” and asks questions about the genesis of the history of the Berlin techno scene in the 1990s and its (claimed) heterogeneity.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s online dossier deals with issues of housing, rising land prices and rents, and examples of resistance in (video) interviews, articles, studies, and further reading references.
This teaching module is aimed at students in grades 10 to 13 and can be used, for example, in the subjects of political education, German, history and ethics/religion.
The independent cooperative, based in London, has been working in the fields of critical reporting, research and education since 1996. The focus is on the question of what serious effects the capitalist management of large companies has on people and the environment.