POLITICS

Full-framed portrait of a woman with brown hair and red lipstick standing outside in the sun. She is smiling big and her eyes are squinting. In the background, there is a clear blue sky and folks hanging out recreationally on a grassy field with trees in the distance.

Jes Walsh on being a doula: care, queers, and reproductive rights

Jes Walsh is a zine-maker, the co-facilitator of the now-defunct queer space “Boys Club” in Berlin, and a doula. We asked Jes some questions about what it means to be…

Live performance documentation. In a dimly lit room with a black floor and veiled dark blue windows, four dancers in white t-shirts and diapers stand in a cluster, mostly with their backs to the camera, while another dancer facing forward, is semi illuminated by a spotlight on a white sheet behind them.

EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS

Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….

ON TIME

Our bodies are a clock. Right here and now, always. Time is proportion, time is scale, timing is everything. Time passes. The MC is on the mic, gentlemen. And you…

What matters about matter? In the October edition of VULVA CLUB,f riendship-based collective female trouble hosted an evening around different intellectual notions of matter, material, and materiality. They drew from…

INTERVIEW WITH MARI LUZ ESTEBAN

Mari Luz Esteban is a feminist anthropologist who studies the body and human emotions. She teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), where she is also a mentor for…

LABOR OR LABOR – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #5

Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about, and acts around, labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIBERATION (PART III): CYBORG MONSTERS ARE THE REAL KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR

Donna Haraway describes the cyborg in “The Cyborg Manifesto” as a biotic system in a post-gender world, and a creature of social reality and fiction. This cyborg is closer to…

Technologies for liberation (Part II): Denying masculinity and becoming Grace Kelly, or how to avoid femininity by becoming Clint

Marcela Negro de Leserre, in her essay “El deseo es el deseo del otro. La influencia de Hegel en Lacan”[1], explains a revolutionary idea: if a person only becomes dignified…

Technologies for liberation: Pepper, Dorian, Octavia, the many Grace Kellys and the Cyborg Monsters (Part I)

I saw “Paris is Burning”, a documentary by Jennie Livingston, and watched the part when participants competed for the title of “FQ Realness” over and over again. To me, this…

EDITORS’ LETTER #4

“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made…