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oi publishing’s books will be at the @byobfair bring your own book fair at the end of this week ~~~ table number 71 Friday 16th of October - 14:00—21:00 Saturday 17th of October - 11.00–21:00 at @loods6 KNSM-Laan 143, Amsterdam Save the date and come for books and talks << See you at Loods6 taken in Amsterdam Loods 6 by @oi.publishing
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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 @oi.publishing
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FLEA MARKET SPOTLIGHT: Community & Art Market As part of “In the Mountains” - a queer and feminist art festival dedicated to art in exile, reclaiming heritage, and building solidarity - join us outdoors for our Community & Art Market! Browse an interactive outdoor flea market featuring hand-picked vintage, upcycled fashion, handmade art, artisan goods, and cultural information tables from regional collectives and independent creators. Come connect, discover unique local crafts, and support independent makers and community initiatives! @crimeiscommon @ginda_geogourmet @kamamakestuff @oi.publishing @de_colonialanguage @profundoediciones More Market details coming soon 🗓 When: 26 September | 14:00 – 20:00 📍 Where: Outdoors @festsaalkreuzberg (Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 Berlin) 🎟 Entry: FREE (Donation-based - everyone is welcome!) 🔗 Full program link in bio! 💚 Support Us: We are actively raising funds to cover production costs and keep the festival accessible to all. Find the link to our GoFundMe in the bio! Supported by @rosaluxstiftung, dreilinden ggmbh, @riakeburiafoundation, and @thesupportingactfoundation taken in Festsaal Kreuzberg by @oi.publishing
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See you at @readconvention on September 16.-18. this week. Come to take books and share your feelingsthoughts << We are by the table #154 taken in Barcelona, España by @oi.publishing
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Invitation to join us on Saturday, September 12th, to the gathering around the book we’ve published this summer. There will be discussions with the book’s authors Vitalie Sprînceană @vtlspr, Julietta (Dzhulyetta) Grigoryan @zhduliet, Alisher Khassengaliyev @alialihandro_cher, designer Caterina Pîslari @katischsch, publishers oi publishing, presentation by Batlay Matenov @rodina_alar (Asians of Russia), food offering by Adiba @quotidian_pleasures, and, of course, there will be books! Check the full program in the carousel. The money collected will be spread between the organisers and as donations to the Solidarity collectives @solidaritycollectives and Freefilmers initiatives @freefilmers.ua. Location: @spore.initiative Hermannstraße 86, Neukölln by @oi.publishing
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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 @oi.publishing
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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 @oi.publishing
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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 @oi.publishing
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We are happy to present you our first-ever printed book. It includes essays on the environmental consequences of Soviet and Russian policies in O‘zbekiston, Qazaqstan, Moldova, Armenia, Palessie Lowland (situated mostly in Belarus and Ukraine), as well as the Tuvan Republic and the Nogai Steppe in current-day Russia. Authors: Shaxrizoda Ergasheva, Vitalie Sprînceană, Julietta Grigoryan, XYANA, Alisher Khassengaliyev, Odot’ To’xtash, Eugene Yin @umrbahori @xyana.xyz @alialihandro_cher @vtlspr @zhduliet Editing: Beda Collective Design: @katischsch @e.emitu Language: English Publisher: oi publishing @oi.publishing @de_colonialanguage Edition: 200 copies 2026 Get your printed copy on our Patreon and support our work. Link in bio. by @oi.publishing
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КОММЕНТАРИЙ МИРЕЙ РОЗЕЛЛО К ДНЕВНИКУ ЭМЭ СЕЗЕРА Выборочный перевод вводной статьи (1995) переводчицы Mireille Rosello [Мирей Розелло] к поэме «Дневник возвращения в родную страну» Эмэ Сезера / Aimé Césaire: «Notebook of a Return to My Native Land» (1938). Авторка комментария анализирует колониальные условия в которых появился и оформился как самостоятельный креольский язык. Эме Сезер (фр. Aimé Fernand David Césaire) —мартиниканский писатель, поэт, политик и общественный деятель. Антиколониалист, сторонник независимости Мартиники, один из создателей концепции негритюда. Мирей Розелло — профессорка французского и сравнительного литературоведения в Северо-Западном университете (Northwestern University). Она является авторкой шести книг, в том числе «Отказ от стереотипа: репрезентация и этничность во французских культурах» (1998); «Литература и креольская идентичность на Антильских островах» (1992), а также многочисленных статей о женщинах-мигрантках, национальной сексуальности, столкновениях с идеологией модернизации. Перевод текста с английского: Денис Есаков @denisesakov Текст перевода доступен на @syg.ma.editorial по ссылке в профиле ~> by @oi.publishing
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TREES, SOIL, AND WATER AS WITNESSES: The Environmental Consequences of Russian and Soviet Colonial Policies A collection of essays on the environmental consequences of Soviet and Russian policies in O‘zbekiston; Qazaqstan; Moldova; Armenia; Palessie Lowland, situated mostly in Belarus and Ukraine; the Tuvan Republic, and the Nogai Steppe. Authors: Shaxrizoda Ergasheva, Vitalie Sprînceană, Julietta Grigoryan, Xyana, Alisher Khassengaliyev, Odot’ To’xtash, Eugene Yin @umrbahori @xyana.xyz @alialihandro_cher @vtlspr @zhduliet Editing, proofreading: Beda Collective @beda_media Design: @katischsch @e.emitu Language: English oi publishing 2026 The stories in this collection reflect the environmental consequences of projects that the Soviet Union and, across a broader timespan, “Russia” carried out across Eurasia. There is a growing positive attitude toward the USSR in Euro-American and South American left-wing media, and we want to warn against it: while our positionality is anti-capitalist, our decolonial and anti-authoritarian lenses compel us to resist treating Soviet state top-down, centralizing policies as inherently liberating. This collection includes testimonies of secret nuclear testing, water contamination, mining, draining of lakes for cotton production, and destruction of Indigenous peoples’ ways of living, languages, cultures, and world-making practices, all carried out by the Soviet Union in an attempt to prove its superiority over capitalism. As it turns out, for Indigenous peoples, both Soviet socialism and capitalism were “modernizing” and “civilizing” mission-in-action—interested neither in understanding, nor in co-existing, but in subjugation and oppression. The authors turn to their environments to reveal Soviet indifference to the reciprocal relations between humans and nature, as Soviet discourses had been predominantly focused on overcoming nature’s constraints, material culture, class and social relations. Water, trees, and soil occupy various positions across these texts. Sometimes they witness, sometimes they die, sometimes they emerge as agents of colonial cruelty. request by email at de.colonialanguage@gmail.com by @oi.publishing
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It was hot, but the people at @missreadberlin the Miss Read art book fair were even hotter than the Berlin weather. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, picked up books, and shared their experiences with publishing and distribution! It was a very fulfilling weekend < 3 Sending hugs to our neighbors, new and old friends, and the organizers of Miss Read. You are our inspiration! It feels so great to have your support and to be companion-species with you all << We’ll be releasing at least two more publications this year—stay tuned ~~ P.S. We’re thinking about launching an online store to make it easier to buy our books. We’d love any advice, tips, or help. In the meantime, you can order books via email at de.colonialanguage@gmail.com taken in silent green by @oi.publishing
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