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

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Funny that we had to scream in all caps into this cyberpixeldust. We are all humbled by algorithm. 🥴
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Don’t mess with my children” that is part of a regional offensive strategy promoted by ultra-conservative sectors that seeks to curb the recognition of sexual and gender dissidence rights, using children as a tool."

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Care and Demedicalization in Colombia
CONVERSATION WITH LA LIGA DE SALUD TRANS TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY VALENTINA SARMIENTO CRUZ This discussion with La Liga de Salud Trans (Trans Health League) hints at a collective effort to make the…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
political, religious, and media actors used a fear tactic by arguing that they were instead seeking to mutilate children, impose sex changes, and remove parental rights. This led to a massive mobilization to generate pressure to have the bulletin withdrawn, and there is currently a bill called
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"There is a setback in trans health care for minors, which has been the main weapon used to attack the trans movement. Here in Colombia, in September 2024, the Superintendency of Health issued a bulletin stating they guarantee the right to health for trans people, but as in other parts of the world,
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
exchanges with anti-racist and feminist movements are all actions to counter a health system that reproduces the social hierarchy necessary for the functioning of the patriarchal capitalist system based on cisnormativity.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
crisis, the privatization of rights for the benefit of an economic-political elite, and processes of precarization, which require the defense of “traditional values,” i.e., white, anti-immigrant, supremacist, antigénero (anti-gender) values."

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The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity
TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY FELIPE GUERRA ARJONA We end this issue with a powerful manifesto written by Mikaelah Drullard. In it, she advocates against the idea of humanizing trans people to favor the…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"These processes of articulation of trans women, travestis, and marikas, such as contramarcha, allow us to understand that the collaboration between transphobic white feminism and the antiderechos (anti-rights) far right not only affects trans people, but it is also directly related to the housing
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"That is why I find it necessary that one form to marronage gender and racial logics of inferiority is fugitivity from the human, that is, to understand the abolition of the human as an urgent task through another way of being trans-travesti-marroon."
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"It is so difficult to live under systems that tell us things are normal, orderly, that the constant violence of enforcement is appropriate, that its targets are the aberration in need of correction."

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On Trans Community Care
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DEAN SPADE AND OHAN BREIDING In this epistolary conversation, Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"How do we continue to love in this fucked up world? Can we talk about what it means to have a body, protective of our big hearts in these unbearable times of political and environmental collapse? How do we protect ourselves and one another?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
creativity, and underground networks of care.

"Has the glacier been trans all along? People have always been afraid of glaciers. They are mysterious and beautiful, and when healthy, in constant flux. They are silent and also very loud, sending sound waves from deep time to the present."
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"For a long time, drag remained an avenue where they could perform being women. Drag held an appeal that cut across many lines, “racial” and socioeconomic alike. Europeans based there did it too, as did some aristocrats and the scions of rich families."

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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM