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 I.L.A. collective’s publication “At the expense of others?” is about how imperial lifestyles and exploitative structures in the 21st century prevent a good life for all. On the associated website, one chapter of the booklet is made freely available every month.
“Young, Gifted and Black” by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippin, is a book for children that features 52 influential Black people and their accomplishments.
The network ADBs for NRW! and the anti-discrimination office of the association Public Against Violence have published a brochure against discrimination in the police. In the booklet, causes and consequences of (racist) discrimination on the part of the police are addressed and possibilities of intervention are shown.
The volume “Decolonize the City!” focuses on the everyday life of migrants and people of color and their struggles in the postcolonial city.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, has published the brochure “Gender raus!” – 12 Corrections to Anti-Feminism and Gender Criticism.
The track of the Berlin rapper Matondo is about (colonial) racism in his hometown Berlin, which reaches up to the present, and about resistance.
Some five years after the discovery of the NSU, the events surrounding the NSU complex have still not been comprehensively clarified. Scientific analysis is also still in its infancy. In the volume, innovative concepts and international perspectives on the study of the complex are presented and bundled.
Names of people from non-Western societies are regularly mispronounced, Europeanized and replaced, or even avoided in use, by members of the majority society in Germany, in Europe, and in the United States.
Kwame’s Bookshelf is a blog by Erica Campayne where she collects and describes children’s books with Black protagonists and/or main characters with disabilities.
On the Amnesty International website, Adrienne Keene of Standing Rock Solidarity has provided 10 practical tips for acting in solidarity. The recommendations are for allies who want to responsibly support marginalized communities and do not have minority status themselves.
In the volume by Florian Fischer and Nenad Čupić it is shown that the genocides for which Germany was responsible did not occur only in the middle of the 20th century, but are connected with 500 years of European expansion and exploitation.
AUDREAM – that stands for “Audre Lorde & Our Dreams” and is the name of a mobile anti-racist, feminist library.