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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’

"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

An inspirational source and practical guide on how to defend public libraries through collective organizing is @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org

For The Peoplewww.librariesforthepeople.org

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 VoidThe 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...direct.mit.edu

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

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

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 DarkroomFor 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...tinyurl.com

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 BelongingDespite 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...www.tandfonline.com

the last two days I learned about seed preservation practices in Lebanon’s mountains 🌱

“(…) conflicts increasingly appear in direct form as disputes over entitlement – who may dispose over shared conditions of life, and who must adapt. Those who have the power to take and defend property with force increasingly shape the future of the planet.”

good morning with @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🌸

Read this in the foreword by Angela Y. Davis for “The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements” (2017) Ad student protests

Our Queer Analog Darkroom Calendar 2026 is out with beautiful photographs on celebrating queerness and sport; donations go to @ouryjalloh.bsky.social and Hope and Haven who are supporting Sudanese refugees; Order via tinyurl.com/3dtyxthe

It’s biscotti’s first birthday today and I feel so much gratitude because I couldn’t have asked for a better companion in life 🌹 with @flexuebel.bsky.social

Auf dem Weg nach Erfurt, um über die Studierendenproteste an Berlins Universitäten zu sprechen – und darüber, wie die Repression, der die Studierenden ausgesetzt sind, in breitere Tendenzen der Versicherheitlichung des öffentlichen Raums eingeordnet werden kann. @interactfu.bsky.social