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Nearbynesses around the BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE book by May Ayim in last Nearby Reading Room. Thank you so much for participating and for so generously sharing your relations to the issue, links, feelings, and knowledge. 01/ notes from the book 02/ Remix by DJ Cashesclay @djcashesclay of the song “Fremd im eigenen Land” by Advanced Chemistry, featuring 2Pac’s track “Changes” 03/ Most common non-German languages in Germany 04/ May Aim poem Blues in Black and White 05/ Echos der Bruderländer, exhibition at HKW, Berlin, 2024 06/ The Homes We Carry (2022), documentary film by Brenda Akele Jorde @brenda_upside_down 07/ Madgermanes, comic book by Birgit Weyhe @birgitweyhe 08/ The Fasiathek is a learning center in Hamburg with an on-site library has been open since 2022 09/ Streets in Berlin named in honor of May Ayim and Audre Lorde + a poem by May dedicated to Audre 10/ @volksbuehne_berlin Volksbühne’s response to the racist scandal made by German politicians in August 2026 11/ Hate / Hasse: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion (2025), book by Şeyda Kurt @seyda.kurt 12/ @eliferalp Elif Eralp, a politician from the @dielinkeberlin die Linke party, of Turkish-Circassian descent 13/ Ugliness/ Hässlichkeit (2025/2023), book by Moshtari Hilal @mooshtariii 14/ Quote from bell hooks text 15/ @blackunicornlibraryproject The Black Unicorn: library and archives project in Pittsburgh + poem by Audre Lorde 16/ A quote from the movie The Green Book (2018) 17/ An example of the creolization of colonial English in Jamaica 18/ French-based creole languages 19/ Poem by Dinara Rasuleva @pustotalitarism 20/ A Gate at the Stairs (2010), book by Lorrie Moore by @de_colonialanguage
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АЛ ЕНДІ ӨЗІМІЗ ШАЙ ІШЕЙІК / AL ENDI ÖZIMIZ SHAI ISHEIK Сборник текстов писательниц курса «Семейная этнография, или как деколонизировать свое письмо» @family.ethnography   Следующая встреча Nearby Reading Room состоится 8 Ноября в 15:00 (CET, Берлин) в онлайн-формате. Обсуждение будет проходить на русском языке.   Если вы хотите присоединиться к нам, напишите нам на de.colonialanguage@gmail.com.   Это сборник — результат работы и процесса, через который прошли участницы курса «Семейная этнография, или как деколонизировать свое письмо». Настроение этих текстов — это интимный момент, когда мы находим силы и смелость быть уязвимыми, когда писательницы ищут поддержки или щедро делятся ею; это способы осознать себя и свою реальность в группе единомышленниц.   Эти тексты улавливают дух времени — те слова, образы, обороты, чувства, в которых мы живем здесь и сейчас. Это письмо в первую очередь о самих авторках: живых, рефлексирующих, где-то неловких, где-то острых и точных, но всегда придающих смысл своему существованию от первого лица. Для многих тексты в этом сборнике стали первой попыткой письма; многие услышали свой писательский голос впервые.   Этот сборник —знакомство с самими собой. Также этот сборник показывает, чем может быть современная литература. Чтобы спросить: кто решает, какой она должна быть, какие критерии существуют и для кого. Не все люди, о которых идет речь в текстах, — персонажи; не все сюжетные арки приводят к разрешению. Это письмо, которое фиксирует жизнь такой, какая она есть: незаконченной, не до конца понятной, разной, сложной, необъяснимо притягательной.   В обсуждении примут участие Эльмира Какабаева @mikkakakka и участницы курса «Семейная этнография».   Формат чтения - онлайн и вокруг-да-около: ~ кажд:ая читает текст самостоятельно, возможно прочесть лишь часть, ~ кажд:ая приносит на встречу околость (ассоциацию), связанную с прочитанным текстом. Это может быть что угодно: стихотворение, изображение, видео, манифест, игрушка, предмет… что угодно ~ мы коллективно обсуждаем наши околости и другие впечатления от текстов удобным для участвующих языком.   Присоединяйтесь и вы! by @de_colonialanguage
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AFTER SOLIDARITY participative performance by Grace Euna Kim @grace.euna.kim with support from @de_colonialanguage October 11 15:00 at WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst @museumangewandtekunst Schaumainkai 17 60594 Frankfurt am Main Languages: mainly the body, non-verbal communication, and English. Contributions in German are welcome. Free admission. Register by email at de.colonialanguage@gmail.com “Beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there.” (Rumi) Design by @masha_makes_____ taken in Frankfurt am Main by @de_colonialanguage
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Nearbynesses around the OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA by Eduardo Galeano in last Nearby Reading Room. Thank you so much for participating and for so generously sharing your relations to the issue, links, feelings, and knowledge! 1/ notes from the book. 2/ Queen Victoria erased Bolivia from the map. 3/ Quote from the book Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1995). 4/ Manifesto Antropófago by Oswald de Andrade (1928). 5/ Cumbia del Petróleo, a popular school song in Mexico. 6/ A quote from Pablo Neruda’s epic poem Canto General (1950). 7/ Under Alberto Fujimori’s rule in Peru (1990–2000), 300 000 Indigenous women were forcedly sterilized. @womensmediacenter 8/ The American territory referred to by the name Abya Yala. A parade by the indigenous community carrying the Wiphala flag of Abya Yala. 9/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) novel by Gabriel García Márquez, cover of the book’s first edition. 10/ Chicha is a fermented beverage produced by the indigenous peoples of the Andes. 11/ Kaingang indigenous people resisting to settlers in Nonoai, Brazil, 1978. 12/ The sculpture park Pedras do Silêncio in Nova Petrópolis tell the history and daily life of German immigrants in Brazil. 13/ The Longest Train in The World, video work by Júlia Pontés, 2019. @_juliapontes_ 14/ Abstauben in Brasilien, book on profit-driven practices of German corporations in Brazil. 15/ Words from neocolonial vocabulary refer to dominant empires and the territories they are possess. 16/ Cotton Production In Armenia during the Soviet period. 17/ The protests at the Kushtau shikhan in Bashkortostan (2020). 18/ An Orthodox icon known as the “Church Militant,” depicting the colonization of the Kazan Khanate by the Russian Tsardom. 19/ The Soviet invasion of Georgia (1921) , Russian occupation of Georgia (2008). 20/ Ukrainian forces have carried out numerous long-range drone strikes targeting Russian oil refineries. by @de_colonialanguage
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Thank you so much for your support and for joining us at Spore that Saturday!!! Batlay Matenov @rodina_alar and Viliuia Choinova @viliuiac spoke about extractivist logging on indigenous lands in Irkutsk oblast and the transport of this timber through China to be used in European furniture. Adiba @quotidian_pleasures @artofadiba, Marina Solnzewa @solnzewa.marina, and Altyn Kapalova @altyn_kapalova prepared kurut and shorpo for all of us, and Adiba shared what memories and archives this dish preserves. Caterina Pîslari @katischsch described how to practice decolonial design. Vitalie Sprînceană @vtlspr, Julietta (Dzhulyetta) Grigoryan @zhduliet, and Alisher Khassengaliyev @alialihandro_cher discussed and illustrated the catastrophic consequences of the extractivist colonial policies of the Soviet Union and Russia. Thank you to everyone who came for the conversations, support, and inspiration! 🌿 @beda_media 💚 @spore.initiative 🌱 @asiansofrussia ☘️ @oi.publishing 🌾 taken in Spore Initiative by @de_colonialanguage
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AFTER SOLIDARITY participative performance by Grace Euna Kim @grace.euna.kim with support from @de_colonialanguage October 11 15:00 at WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst @museumangewandtekunst Schaumainkai 17 60594 Frankfurt am Main Languages: mainly the body, non-verbal communication, and English. Contributions in German are welcome. Free admission. Register by email at de.colonialanguage@gmail.com “Beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there.” (Rumi) After Solidarity is an immersive playspace for adults where imagination is a political act. Artist and choreographer Grace Euna Kim presents this new participatory performance in cooperation with de_colonialanguage. Audience are invited to explore the co-creation of a post-ideological future, leading into a collective discussion and sharing of reflections. As anti-migrant tensions are ever more on the rise across Germany and Europe, the encounter is grounded in questions of how conflict-based ideologies are inscribed within bodies and the possibilities to transform them. How can we imagine a world beyond violence, when we are embedded in the systems that reproduce it? How can we approach solidarity without producing other forms of exclusion? How can we enact resistance without producing other forms of oppression? After Solidarity thus offers a space to explore ways of reclaiming lost futures and reworlding our relation to the “other”. We question how to manifest a peaceful co-existence—a post-violence radical future—amidst plural lived realities of injustice, fear, disagreement, and vulnerability. Performance is part of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 @wdc2026 Design by Masha Egorova @masha_makes_____ taken in Angewandte Kunst by @de_colonialanguage
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BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE A Collection of Essays, Poetry, and Conversations by May Ayim, translated and by Anne V. Adams Next Nearby Reading Room session will take place on October 3 at 12PM (CET) online. The discussion will be held in English. Send us an email on de.colonialanguage@gmail.com if you would like to join us. Blues in Black and White is May Ayim’s first collection of poetry. It was published in 1995 by Orlanda Frauenverlag. The book contains eight cycles of poems and is illustrated with Adinkra symbols from Ghana (in German book). The book has been translated into English and French. The English-language edition also includes essays and interviews by and with May Ayim. In the 2020s, the texts were adapted for the stage. May Ayim (3 May 1960 – 9 August 1996) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Brigitte Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a white German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name. Opitz wrote a thesis at the University of Regensburg, “Afro-Deutsche: Ihre Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte auf dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen” (Afro-Germans: Their Cultural and Social History on the Background of Social Change), which was the first scholarly study of Afro-German history. It included accounts by many women of Afro-German descent. Ayim worked as an activist to unite Afro-Germans and combat racism in German society. She co-founded Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland [de] (Initiative of Black People in Germany) to that purpose in the late 1980s. The nearby reading are supported and accompanied by: Neseine is a researcher, an artist and an indigenous person engaged in an interdependent relationship with the world. S/he practices decolonial queerdom and produces texts as well as other artistic works. Born from the spirit of the time, s/he creates art of various complexity and searches for meaning. Jon in ~<< by @de_colonialanguage
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Trees, Soil, and Water as Witness Sat, 12 September | 1 – 5 pm For adults | In English At Spore Initiative (Hermannstr. 86, Neukölln) “Trees, Soil, and Water as Witnesses: The Environmental Consequences of Russian and Soviet Colonial Policies”, published in July 2026 by @beda_media with support from @oi.publishing , collects essays on the ecologies of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Armenia, the Palessie Lowland stretching across Belarus and Ukraine, the Tuvan Republic, and the Nogai Steppe in present-day Russia. Together, the essays reveal how colonial structures operate and the lasting impact they have on landscapes, climate, and communities. This event brings together a conversation and Q&A with the book's editors and authors, a discussion with the co-founder of @asiansofrussia on the ecological situation in North Asia, a food ritual, and the chance to buy a copy.  No registration needed. More info on the Spore website. Images: Julietta Grigoryan & Denis-Esakov taken in Spore Initiative by @de_colonialanguage
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the SOVIET COLONIAL MYTH of “FRIENDSHIP of PEOPLES” Our new text on imperial ideology under the cover of an “emancipatory” smoke screen published on @syg.ma.editorial Sometimes narratives of domination and alienation sound friendly. Under the guise of important concepts familiar to many—such as friendship or solidarity—authoritarian political regimes build structures of subjugation and propaganda. This is exactly what happened with the Soviet concept of “Friendship of Peoples.” A very personal feeling familiar to everyone was overlaid with monuments and loyalty parades, sharply polarizing society and distinguishing between “us” and “them.” This space of politically constructed “Friendship” very clearly defined the conditions under which so-called “Friendship” was to take place. Soviet narratives cannot be viewed in a vacuum — merely as historical phenomena of their time. The ideology, concepts and wordings that emerged and were popularised at various stages of the Soviet period travel across time and live on in the present as transformed concepts. In the current election campaign in Russia (2026), the United Russia party—Vladimir Putin’s backyard—is using the “Friendship of Peoples” concept for its advertising. It is therefore important to consider ‘Friendship of Peoples’ not only as a Soviet internationalist, romanticised phenomenon in its own form, but also in terms of how these ideas are received within contemporary Russian ideology, political and public discourse or among the neo-imperial thinkers, who sometimes are described as Neo-Eurasianist. Keep reading the whole thing on Sygma via the link in profile ~~> by @de_colonialanguage
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Nearbynesses nearby the issue of FOOD, CULTURE and HERITAGE in last Nearby Reading Room: 1/ who owns Goulash? 2/ Goulash Communism (Hungarian: gulyáskommunizmus), also known as refrigerator communism (Hungarian: fridzsiderkommunizmus), Kádárism, is the variety of state socialism in the Hungarian People’s Republic following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. 3-4/ A map of the dumpling expansion across different cultures and geografies. 5/ „Nutrition connection“, work by Sayaka Shinkai @sayakashinkai 6/ The Jarkent Mosque. 7/ Dungan summer dish ashlyam-fu. 8/ Qurt, artickle by @aliyabolatkhan Aliya Bolatkhan. 9/ The consumption and production of kumis in Central Asian communities. The second photo was taken by Maria Chernova in 1915. 10/ A quote by Langston Hughes on tea culture in O‘zbekiston from his diaries (1932–33). 11/ Asian Noodles of the East Bay. 12-13/ Timeline of noodler history. 14/ The 4 types of temperament according to Ibn Sina. 15/ The exhibition «Prosaic Elegy For Hungry Streets» by Sujatro Ghosh @sujatroghosh 16/ Bigos and Solyanka. 17/ Traditional homemade meat dishes. 18/ A 1700 map of Asia dividing «Great Tartary» into «Muscovite Tartary», «Chinese Tartary», and «Independent Tartary». 19-20/ A map of Latvia on the box of the renowned Latvian “Laima” candies. by @de_colonialanguage
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TREES, SOIL, AND WATER AS WITNESSES The Environmental Consequences of Russian and Soviet Colonial Policies Save the Date 12. September 2026 13.00-17.00 at @spore.initiative in English Russian colonialism has devastated the ecosystems of the territories it occupies, and the Soviet period was no exception. The most extreme form of this kind of destruction, the ongoing colonial war against Ukraine, has reached the level of ecocide. Three collectives @beda_media, @de_colonialanguage, and @asiansofrussia — working on Russian colonialism are dedicating a day to the subject, built around a recently published book. Trees, Soil, and Water as Witnesses: The Environmental Consequences of Russian and Soviet Colonial Policies, published in July 2026 by Beda.media with support from @oi.publishing, collects essays on the ecologies of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Armenia, the Palessie Lowland, the Tuvan Republic, and the Nogai Steppe in present-day Russia. Together, the essays reveal how colonial structures operate and the lasting impact they have on landscapes, climate, and communities. Program 13:00–14:00 Batlay Matenov @rodina_alar, Forests for Sale: Colonial Extraction and the Global Timber Trade in Eastern Siberia 14:00–15:00 Food offering by Adiba @quotidian_pleasures @artofadiba , donation-based 15:00–16:00 Book presentation with contributing authors Caterina Pîslari @katischsch, On making Trees, Soil, and Water as Witnesses: collective editing, design and publishing Vitalie Sprînceană @vtlspr, Man, Nature and Economy in Soviet Socialism: The Ialpug-Taraclia Irrigation System Julietta (Dzhulyetta) Grigoryan @zhduliet, Chasing the Tail: Towards Ways of Exploring Mining Memory Alisher Khassengaliyev @alialihandro_cher, The Steppe Remains: Memory, Responsibility, and the Practice of Nuclear Justice 16:20–17:00 Conversation between Asians of Russia, de_colonialanguage, Beda.media and the book’s authors on anti- and decolonial solidarities across borders Come and bring your friends with you << Part of the money from the book sales will be donated to Solidarity Collectives @solidaritycollectives and Freefilmers @freefilmers.ua taken in Spore Initiative by @de_colonialanguage
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OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA  Eduardo Galeano   Next Nearby Reading Room session will take place on September 5th at 10AM (CET) online. The discussion will be held in English.   Send us an email on de.colonialanguage@gmail.com if you would like to join us.    This discussion will revolve around Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of a Pillage of a Continent (1971). This is a counter-narrative: it is a counter-epistemology and counter-history, retold by a bleeding continent subjected to the Western imperial violence since the 15th century. In 1961, Frantz Fanon encouraged us to learn from the countries of South America to achieve decolonization of Africa: “Latin America, made up of new independent countries which sit at the United Nations and raise the wind there, ought to be an object lesson for Africa. These former colonies since their liberation have suffered the brazenfaced rule of Western capitalism in terror and destitution. [...] We know today that this fascism at high interest which has triumphed for half a century in Latin America is the dialectic result of states which were semi-colonial during the period of independence.” Looted, robbed, exploited, deformed, enslaved, militarised, and internally exiled, bleeding Latin America is not a document of the past. Its bleeding veins are the history of the present.        Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), a Uruguayan writer, essayist and journalist, was one of the most distinctive voices of Latin America. He is particularly known for blending lyrical writing with political discourse, outspokenly condemning dictatorships, imperialistic exploitations and injustices in Latin America. For his political views, he was forced to flee, first to Argentina, and then Spain.              The reading format remains the same: always nearby and online. The frame is open: ~ each reads the text independently, partial readings are possible ~ each brings to the meeting an association (nearbyness) with the text we have read. It can be anything: poetry, image, video, manifesto, toy, object, your body, anmeldung ... anything ~ we are discussing collectively our nearbyness-associations. organization: @ma__rnus by @de_colonialanguage
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