Interviews at Feminist Futures Festival 2019: Sarah Wansa, Jelena Miloš, Barbara Fried

Indeed, the political lesson that we can learn from “Caliban and the Witch” is that capitalism, as a social-economic system, is necessarily committed to racism and sexism. For capitalism must justify and mystify the contradictions built into its social relations – the promise of freedom vs. the reality of widespread coercion, and the promise of […]

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Feminist Futures Festival report part one

This translation from German to English was done with the help of www.DeepL.com/Translator “We are visible in the name of all forgotten women.” Ruhr Youth opens the Feminist Futures Festival “As non-white, non-academic women, we were invisible for a long time. And today we stand here and welcome you. As activists of the Ruhr youth, […]

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Mails from Borneo: “BORNEO BURNING!”

Photo: By courtesy of the Ranu Walum Foundation This mail reached me from Indonesia, Borneo (Kalimantan) today: “A friend of mine took pictures in Borneo, but is already back after a week, because she also got lung disease. The same thing happens in Sumatra and the government is silent and sends no help and there […]

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The work of Minerva Cuevas

At the “Alle Dörfer bleiben-Demo” in June I got to know Minerva Cuevas from Mexico City. She is currently a studio scholarship holder in Mönchengladbach and I visited her in her studio. Only then did I realize how comprehensive and impressive her political and artistic work is. Graphics, painting, video and installations: Each of her […]

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Uranium on Diné (Navajo) Land

LEONA MORGAN is a Diné and reports from the uranium-contaminated land of the Diné (Navajo) culture in New Mexico. She came to Germany aiming to combine her fight against uranium mining with the environmental movement in Germany. After all, uranium is not carbon-free either, and the European company URENCO (1/3 RWE and EON) also operates […]

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