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Last year the magazine moved from a symbolic to a physical social space (although I hate the
word “space” by now). Many people whose hands I deeply appreciate came together to find
pathways of (re)mapping and reimagining our existence in Berlin despite the pain of imagining
yourself in a place you probably would never have chosen voluntarily if it wasnt for the
exploitation structures.

We asked ourselves: what other modes of resilience can lead to alliances, safety, and slow
transformation? And how can these modes emerge through lived, practical forms of communion
that, even if just in small ways, help undo the constant states of survival and the collective (often
internalized) fragmentation we carry? How do emancipatory narratives take shape in the real world beyond the existence of the magazine and its political messaging?

The result was the project „Afghan Punk City“ an art project in Berlin for young adults that attempted to
counter systematically imposed mental, spiritual, and physical entrapment through cultural heritage. These practices are mainly bodily and therefore experimental - not trying to impose a fixed idea, but about creating collaboratively, carefully, slowly and seeing what happens.

We used dance and cooking as forms of ritualistic communion while also opening artistic
movement for social and political self-organization. Through simple collective acts (despite the
art world’s insistence on reframing them as complicated gestures): critical
cartography, attan dance, and cooking and eating together became our ways of building trust,
joy, and alliances countering fragmentation narratives.

Special thanks for this incredible poster by the talent @lotsofbroth (more posters dropping)

And lots and lots and lots of lovely caring people with strong hearts that exist in this world
despite it all @iznezz @jet.asti @atibelll_ @attan_berlin , @mariam_mumtaz12 @hanif_freestyler_official hanif_freestyler_official and sahar (who i can’t tag!!) and many others!!l
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Ein Teil von DRAUSSENSTADT. Das Projekt wurde gefördert vom Berliner Projektfond Urbane Praxis sowie von der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.

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