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.
The teaching material collection “We are here. What Our Colonial Past Has to Do with Flight and Migration” was published in May 2017.
This satirical video by U.S. artist Ken Tanaka uses an everyday scene to tell about the quick-witted handling of racist attributions and colonial stereotypes.
In her 1966 song “My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying,” Canadian-born musician, visual artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie addresses the colonization of the Americas, the mass killings, expulsions, and disenfranchisement of indigenous people that accompanied it, and the centuries-long denial of these acts.
Argentine artist Chocolate Remix makes reggaeton – but without the sexism that is otherwise often inherent in the tracks of this genre.
Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary is set in 1980s New York City and tells stories from the lesbian, gay, and transgender scene there, grouped around what she calls “ballroom culture.”
The transnationally organized network of grassroots activists in Togo, Mali, Guinea, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, among them numerous self-organized refugees, migrants and deportees, has existed since 2009.
The initiative was founded in 2015 and advocates for a critical view of Kassel’s colonial past and present.
In her short film “Semra Ertan,” Cana Bilir-Meier collages material from the life of activist Semra Ertan into a dense portrait.
The teaching folder “People.Use.Nature. deals with the management of resource wealth in Latin America/Abya Yala. It was developed by the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University.
“The Decolonial Atlas” is an online project dedicated to the creation of decolonial and domination-critical visualizations, mostly in the form of territorial maps.
“The ABC of Racist Europe” is a children’s book written and collaged by Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz.
BREAK THE SILENCE. Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh has been campaigning since the death of Oury Jalloh in the Dessau police station on 07.01.2005 for a comprehensive clarification of the circumstances of his death and for a commemoration of Oury Jalloh.