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We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never again' truly mean?

In the face of destruction and enforced forgetfulness, the madness of remembering is a weapon to reclaim Beirut’s identity and resist a world order built on erasure and imperial dominance.

A law deeming the UN agency a ‘terror group’ raises global concerns over humanitarian missions.

The role of migrant workers in the anti-coup movement in Myanmar shows how migration can be a transformative and revolutionary phenomenon.

Late August 2024, the supreme court in Brazil issued a ban for X (formerly Twitter). The following clash with its owner, Elon Musk, reveals the intricacies of the relationship between global tech companies and colonial legacies.

The word terror means extreme fear, and there is no greater terror than being dehumanized by the world's most powerful military machinery.

A year has passed, and the brutal machine continues to devour our bodies, moving between Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. 

A testimony from a detention center in Turkey reveals how the EU's outsourcing of border control results in severe detainee mistreatment, with overcrowding and abuse amid rising xenophobia.

Let’s turn a moment of potential despair into an exercise of love. What many white queer feminists lack in solidarity with Palestine here in Germany is Love for everyone.

Among other things, Gaza has exposed, once and for all, the neoliberal feminism that either stood idly by and watched, or actively contributed to the genocide.

Intimate encounters with a few plants and people along a pilgrimage route. What visions of an alternative future appear through these encounters and how can we renew the ways we relate to and inhabit the world around us?

The plants disclose their knowledge and complex histories of colonialism and migration, shifting the author's perception of the city.

The question of Palestine reveals the limits of Western governments’ commitment to their own Enlightenment values: in sacrificing Palestine, the West betrays itself.

What changes when we walk in different cultural and political contexts? Which (un)privilege do certain bodies have to walk and wander? Dina Mohamed departs from her own embodied experience to explore these questions.

While the Israeli military is carrying out an unprecedented slaughter of humans, the toll on the environmental habitat is high.

Walking through an other, how could we access imaginary and real landscapes of memory, grief and desire? The writer follows her embodied memory and that of the landscape. Where does trauma reside? And does nature know grief?

A very delicate and intimate ritual, where the author sheds off his multiple bodies, mourns his multiple deaths and welcomes his rebirth as a pine tree.

A walk along paths interwoven between inner landscapes of grief and the outer natural landscapes of transformation, in the village the writer has taken refuge in due to the economic and political crisis in Lebanon.

Much remains untold when it comes to grief, and much feels unheard as we walk and connect to everything by our side. This dossier reflects on the practice of walking through the writing of six artists.

The author reflects on identity as a trans man, in a time where pain and anger toward the unfolding massacre in Palestine should be silenced.

The newly elected Argentinian president Milei showed selective solidarity to crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza. His contradictory claims proves that he's the opposite of a libertarian.

In the past few months, several feminists collectives have reunited in transnational assemblies, formed by a plurality of voices from different countries, to reflect on the ongoing massacre in Palestine in relation with Global South's common colonial injuries and struggles, and to demand a permanent ceasefire.

A statement by a group of education researchers about the silence and silencing in academic institutions towards the unfolding genocide in Palestine and the crackdown on academic freedom across the world

What is happening to us? What is happening in this world? How can people witness all this in a single lifetime? 

If you are not outraged, look in the mirror and ask yourself why that is. Why is it that you choose to justify or even accept violence against these people but not against others?

Since 7 August 2023, the Italian philosopher, theorist and activist Franco Berardo “Bifo” has been keeping track of “Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and the violence of Tsahal's soldiers against young people imprisoned in the occupied territories or in the Gaza concentration camp.

By comparing the sense of loss that an earthquake in Southern Italy in 1980 and the destruction of the city of Homs by the conflict in Syria caused, the two authors explore what rebuilding homes means in the search to rebuild one's own community, after Turkey-Syria earthquake.