Call for Submissions: analog photographs / visual projects / poetry / written words for the queer analog darkroom calendar 2027 deadline: 31.08. link to last year’s calendar: www.instagram.com/p/DTI78VVjMG...
lilian mauthofer
@becomingothers.bsky.social
writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography, phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin (they/them)
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
Solidarität mit den Betroffenen des Anschlags auf den Berliner CSD!
I’ve had the chance to learn about a new way to be connected to water & the calming effects free diving has on me. Today I went through my copy of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and found myself thinking with water about the fluidity of the self. ‘I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves’
lilian mauthofer@becomingothers.bsky.social · last yr.I keep returning to Jackie Wang’s essay on ‘oceanic feeling and communist affect’ and decided to start a thread with visual and text based associations on the topic. not sure what exactly comes out of it but it feels like a good practice of thinking about connection (to the archive and each other) 🎞️
When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about it, or if you went away. - Sara Ahmed
Demonstrations break out in Bologna after Moroccan man dies while being restrained by police
Demonstrations break out in Bologna after Moroccan man dies while being restrained by police
Protesters and police clashed in Bologna, Italy on Monday after Moroccan-born entrepreneur Abderrahim Fakir died while being forcibly restrained by police. Widely shared footage of Fakir's death show police holding the 42-year-old face-down on the ground, where he repeatedly calls for help before falling still.
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10.000 neue Mitarbeitende wurden eingestellt und Haftkapazitäten massiv ausgebaut. Auch an Geld für ICE und die US-Grenzschutzbehörde mangelt es nicht: Im Juni billigte der Kongress weitere 70 Milliarden Dollar. 5/6
In Shameful Vote, Congress Gives $70 Billion to Ongoing Cruelty Against Immigrants
Congress is shamefully fueling cruelty and human rights violations with an injection of nearly $70 billion taxpayer dollars
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Jannis Grimm & @becomingothers.bsky.social for @merip.bsky.social: "Whether the university emerges as a site that resists carceral logics or as an institution that helps normalize them will depend on the ability and the will of scholars and students to keep holding the line."
The Palestine Test for German Universities
In February 2025, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) cancelled a planned lecture by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The un...
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"Safety" as pharmakon *and* poisonous injunction. Elsa Dorin's conceptualization of safety raises the question of how we can collectivize protection without reproducing the governing rationalities through which safety disciplines political life
We have a new article out: ”Theorising the violence-resistance-nexus in the context of Gaza: towards a situated research perspective“, co-authored with Jannis Grimm and @hfranzki.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access!
Theorising the violence-resistance-nexus in the context of Gaza: towards a situated research perspective
Divergent, often implicit, concepts of violence shape judgements about what counts as legitimate resistance or illegitimate harm, and about which actors and grievances become visible. Against this ...
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An inspirational source and practical guide on how to defend public libraries through collective organizing is @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org
For The People
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · last mo.Der #NDR meldet: Hamburger Universitätsbibliothek: Kein Geld für neue Bücher Der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (StaBi) fehlt es an Geld, um Bücher zu kaufen. Sie hat den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern mitgeteilt, dass sie ihren Kernauftrag momentan nicht erfüllen könne:
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...
The Israeli army committed a massacre on Saturday in the town of Qennarit, in the Saida district, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 others, including five children, according to a preliminary toll released by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. 🧵
Who and what is really behind what's been happening in Belfast? Marisa asked me to explain what's been going on
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agoI learned a lot from editing this important piece by Lee Hurley (@hleehurley.com) and I hope you do the same by reading it.
Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable
Asylum by Algorithm
The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.
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I’m very grateful for this special recognition from @apsamena.bsky.social for Jannis Grimm’s and my article! Thank you! Here’s the link to read it (open access) direct.mit.edu/daed/article...
Multi-Perspectivity & Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza & October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void
The language that researchers use to describe the increasingly violent reality in Gaza has become a contested space. Analytical terms like “genocide,” “self-defense,” “terrorism,” and “resistance,” wh...
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APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnnouncing awards for best articles on MENA politics published in 2025: Best Article, Special Recognition: Jannis Julien Grimm and Lilian Mauthofer "Multi-Perspectivity and Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza and October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void" Many congrats Jannis and Lilian!
I just finished Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout - The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat’. Next on my reading list for soothing troubling thoughts while remoting between cities is this book by @manuelaz.bsky.social 📚🚃
this week has been so colorful 🍄🟫 these lemon and pink oysters grew at home, and ‘chicken of the woods’ in Grunewald
Und da ist die Polizeigewalt nicht mit einberechnet
dokmz@dokmz.bsky.social · 3mo agoPolizei meldet höchsten Stand von rechter Gewalt seit 2016 In Deutschland gab es im vergangenen Jahr so viele rechts motivierte Gewalttaten wie seit 2016 nicht mehr. In den meisten Fällen wurde wegen Körperverletzung ermittelt dokmz.com/2026/05/03/p...
Interview with Saidiya Hartman “on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary” by Catherine Damman. www.artforum.com/columns/said...
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary
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NEW: The Palestine Test for German Universities For our Campus Politics issue, Jannis Julien Grimm and Lilian Mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social examined how campus occupations and repression are reshaping university life in Germany. buff.ly/xKWJazC
The Palestine Test for German Universities
In February 2025, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) cancelled a planned lecture by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The…
merip.org
I’m very grateful to be part of @merip.bsky.social’s new special issue on Campus Politics: Palestine and the New University Order. You can read Jannis Grimm and my article ‘The Palestine Test for German Universities’ here: www.merip.org/2026/04/the-... @interactfu.bsky.social
Middle East Research and Information Project@merip.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
One of the first US labor actions against apartheid came in 1970, when Black workers at the Massachusetts-based Polaroid protested the film’s use in “passbooks”. The ‘Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement’ successfully forced Polaroid to end business in South Africa in 1977.
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Berlin, 26.03 save the date 🎞️ My collective Queer Analog Darkroom was invited to take over Spätschicht, Rirkrit Tiravanija's untitled 2025 (Waiting Room), at Gropius Bau Berlin x C/O Berlin, accompanying the exhibition by Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision. tinyurl.com/589hx6su
Queer Analog Darkroom
For this edition of Spätschicht, the collective Queer Analog Darkroom take over Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled 2025 (waiting room), a common space at Gropius Bau, opening it as a temporary refuge. Taki...
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Our new joint article in Middle East Critique is out (open access), with @thaddaea.bsky.social and Jannis Grimm “‘If Gaza Burns, Berlin Burns’—Transregional Solidarity Between Appeal, Accountability and Belonging” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘If Gaza Burns, Berlin Burns’—Transregional Solidarity Between Appeal, Accountability and Belonging
Despite being embedded in longstanding structures of oppression and occupation, the genocide in Gaza is experienced across the globe as a critical juncture that unsettles prior categorizations of v...
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the last two days I learned about seed preservation practices in Lebanon’s mountains 🌱
