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The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.

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We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

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WHAT? WE ARE SHADOWBANNED ON TWITTER AND HAVE ONLY A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND FOLLOWERS HERE! SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!!! 😒
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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this was such a thought-&-feeling-provoking interview for me! i found myself longing for this approach in the states—resistant to medicalization of our self-determination, yet not shaming those who decide to embrace medical assistance, & resistant to any reductionist ideas of tr@ns care.
This discussion with La Liga de Salud Trans (Trans Health League) hints at a collective effort to make the demedicalization and collectivization of healthcare a field of resistance and agency for trans people in Colombia. Advocating for alternative health protocols, redress for violence, and
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - our international talks series - wraps up next week with Léopold Lambert @thefunambulist.bsky.social in conversation with @saragreavu.bsky.social.

Sat 29 Nov, 7pm, IAF House

More tickets released! www.eventbrite.ie/e/leopold-la...

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November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This discussion with La Liga de Salud Trans (Trans Health League) hints at a collective effort to make the demedicalization and collectivization of healthcare a field of resistance and agency for trans people in Colombia. Advocating for alternative health protocols, redress for violence, and
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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◆Gorashi, Omer Mohamed, 2025, "On Bulldozer Politics: An Interview with Léopold Lambert & Shivangi Mariam Raj", NoNiin, 29 (April 2025), (no-niin.com/issue-29/on-...).
NO NIIN Magazine — On Bulldozer Politics: An Interview with Léopold Lambert & Shivangi Mariam Raj
In an interview with Omer Gorashi, Léopold Lambert and Shivangi Mariam Raj of the Funambulist discuss “Bulldozer Politics,” revealing how ruins are strategically weaponized for state power through dem...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In this powerful manifesto, Mikaelah Drullard advocates against the idea of humanizing trans people to favor the construction of a new ontology, that of the travestinegra (blacktravesti) outside of a humanity forged by colonial structures that simultaneously racialize and gender.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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La mejor revista del mundo.
Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face of political, ecological, and emotional collapse. Interweaving personal memories, reflections on community, grief and global crises, their letters affirm the urgent need for solidarity,
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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this issue of my beloved @thefunambulist.bsky.social is dear to my heart & utterly, vitally necessary. you can order on the website if you want!
Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face of political, ecological, and emotional collapse. Interweaving personal memories, reflections on community, grief and global crises, their letters affirm the urgent need for solidarity,
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face of political, ecological, and emotional collapse. Interweaving personal memories, reflections on community, grief and global crises, their letters affirm the urgent need for solidarity,
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Look what arrived from @thefunambulist.bsky.social just in time to come to Outburst Queer Arts Festival, where contributor Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social will be one of the panellists for the closing Big Talk on Sat 21 Nov, on Trans Formations. Join us!
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The photograph on this issue’s cover and the ones featured in these pages, were found by artist Hoo Fan Chon in an antique shop in George Town, in Malaysia. In doing research, he traced back the photos’ owner, Ava, and got to know about her through multiple meetings with her lifetime friend, Anita.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We are honored to begin with a text by Fusako Shigenobu.

The cover features a photograph found by artist Hoo Fan Chon in an antique shop in George Town, Malaysia.

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November 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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and militarism (Giuseppe Procida), and the misappropriation of Indigenous symbols, in particular the whipala, by the Bolivian state (Magali Vienca Copa Pabón). We also inaugurate a new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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and the US (Dean Spade and Ohan Breiding). In the News from the Fronts section, you can read three texts about the history of Brazilian formerly enslaved people who returned to Benin and Nigeria (Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber), the long Sicilian resistance against capitalism
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Contributions include reflections about/from Colombia (La Liga de Salud Trans), colonized Casablanca and Cairo (Beshouy Botros), Britain (Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha), India (Shripad Sinnakaar), newly independent Malaysia (Hoo Fan Chon and William Tham), Mexico (Mikaelah Drullard),
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This issue is an invitation to approach trans identities and political struggles around the world through two angles: their collective dimension and their forever escape from clear-cut definitions, in particular those emerging from the West.
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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My copy came in the mail last Friday and I’m eager to read it
We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...
November 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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"We also inaugurate a new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We are honored to begin with a text by Fusako Shigenobu."
We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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This looks really good (due to be published Oct. 31st) and is truly #Transnational:

The Funambulist (@thefunambulist.bsky.social ) no. 62: Building Trans Communities

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Issue: Building Trans Communities
Collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world…
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October 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Le nouveau numéro de @thefunambulist.bsky.social arrivé ajd dans la boite aux lettres 🖤🔥🏳️‍⚧️
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Allez hop encore un réveil par ma tête à 4h30 alors que je suis en repos car je suis matrixée par mes horaires de taf 😐

(Bon bah on va lire @thefunambulist.bsky.social en attendant le lever du soleil 🤓)
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM