The Funambulist
@thefunambulist.bsky.social
The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.
We have a francophone version as well!
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We have a francophone version as well!
https://thefunambulist.net/shop/62-building-trans-communities
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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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For a long time, we wanted to publish a sharp yet nuanced text on the instrumentalization of Indigenous identities by the Bolivian State. We are happy to propose such a text today through the carefully articulated words of Magali Vienca Copa Pabón.
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
For a long time, we wanted to publish a sharp yet nuanced text on the instrumentalization of Indigenous identities by the Bolivian State. We are happy to propose such a text today through the carefully articulated words of Magali Vienca Copa Pabón.
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In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture
In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture
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project in Messina–exist and resist. Across Gela’s fields, Augusta’s beaches, or Trapani’s mountains, grassroots collectives oppose pollution, landscape destruction, land theft with actions centering agroecology, environmental self-determination, community care."
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Histories of Sicilian Rebellions Against Extractivism, Militarization, and Border Regimes
Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
project in Messina–exist and resist. Across Gela’s fields, Augusta’s beaches, or Trapani’s mountains, grassroots collectives oppose pollution, landscape destruction, land theft with actions centering agroecology, environmental self-determination, community care."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
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under utterly opaque arrangements. These interventions are enabled by national and European agendas that prioritize energy production and profit extraction over justice, local participation, and territorial autonomy. However, dozens of ecologist groups and movements, like NO PONTE–against the bridge
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
under utterly opaque arrangements. These interventions are enabled by national and European agendas that prioritize energy production and profit extraction over justice, local participation, and territorial autonomy. However, dozens of ecologist groups and movements, like NO PONTE–against the bridge
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policies, as well as its complicities with atlanticist militarism and Fortress Europe’s border enforcement.
"Key actors in this green-washing colonial web include multinational firms such as ENI, Edison, Lukoil, Sonatrach, Canadian Solar, and Alta Capital, which collaborate with local governments
"Key actors in this green-washing colonial web include multinational firms such as ENI, Edison, Lukoil, Sonatrach, Canadian Solar, and Alta Capital, which collaborate with local governments
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
policies, as well as its complicities with atlanticist militarism and Fortress Europe’s border enforcement.
"Key actors in this green-washing colonial web include multinational firms such as ENI, Edison, Lukoil, Sonatrach, Canadian Solar, and Alta Capital, which collaborate with local governments
"Key actors in this green-washing colonial web include multinational firms such as ENI, Edison, Lukoil, Sonatrach, Canadian Solar, and Alta Capital, which collaborate with local governments
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Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist
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I hadn't! Really cool, love the Funambulist
August 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I hadn't! Really cool, love the Funambulist
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As Tooze points out, Lambert made this point in 2016 & there’s a whole issue of The Funambulist from a few months ago on this.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
As Tooze points out, Lambert made this point in 2016 & there’s a whole issue of The Funambulist from a few months ago on this.
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...
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Ça me rappel cette vidéo qui parle de l'histoire spatiale du colonialisme français. Je dois piocher des truc dans son livre pour des cours de level design :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
États d'urgence: une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français - Léopold Lambert
YouTube video by lundimatin
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August 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Ça me rappel cette vidéo qui parle de l'histoire spatiale du colonialisme français. Je dois piocher des truc dans son livre pour des cours de level design :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
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Le travail de Léopold Lambert est précieux. Il est aussi le fondateur de la revue the funambulist
Ça me rappel cette vidéo qui parle de l'histoire spatiale du colonialisme français. Je dois piocher des truc dans son livre pour des cours de level design :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...
États d'urgence: une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français - Léopold Lambert
YouTube video by lundimatin
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Le travail de Léopold Lambert est précieux. Il est aussi le fondateur de la revue the funambulist
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Donald Trump and the de minimis couldn’t stop it!
September 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Donald Trump and the de minimis couldn’t stop it!
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In another example of my reading choices being prescient, a couple of months ago I stocked up on past issues of The Funambulist ("Politics of Space & Bodies"). Issue #1? "Militarized Cities". #ThursdayBookChat
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In another example of my reading choices being prescient, a couple of months ago I stocked up on past issues of The Funambulist ("Politics of Space & Bodies"). Issue #1? "Militarized Cities". #ThursdayBookChat
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net
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Within the Jewish community in Ru & Poland, fm the start, there were those that opposed the darker elements of Zionism. “The Bund loathed Zionism's nationalism, its racism, its contempt for the Jewish diaspora, and its slavish dependence on British imperialism.”
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Within the Jewish community in Ru & Poland, fm the start, there were those that opposed the darker elements of Zionism. “The Bund loathed Zionism's nationalism, its racism, its contempt for the Jewish diaspora, and its slavish dependence on British imperialism.”
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“For Aymara women, weaving means that the pace of change is different; women prepare revolutions in advance, sustain them, and care for them, and in this step-by-step process, new institutions are solidified.” Magali Vienca Copa Pabón in a very insightful text in the last Funambulist.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“For Aymara women, weaving means that the pace of change is different; women prepare revolutions in advance, sustain them, and care for them, and in this step-by-step process, new institutions are solidified.” Magali Vienca Copa Pabón in a very insightful text in the last Funambulist.
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el último número de @thefunambulist.bsky.social tiene por título "Building Trans Communities", favoreciendo un discurso que explora su dimensión colectiva y, por supuesto, crítica con las visiones individualistas liberales, especialmente occidentales.
gracias siempre, léopold, por tu sensibilidad.
gracias siempre, léopold, por tu sensibilidad.
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
el último número de @thefunambulist.bsky.social tiene por título "Building Trans Communities", favoreciendo un discurso que explora su dimensión colectiva y, por supuesto, crítica con las visiones individualistas liberales, especialmente occidentales.
gracias siempre, léopold, por tu sensibilidad.
gracias siempre, léopold, por tu sensibilidad.
Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist
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"...politics of land expropriation, subjugation of Arab and Amazigh Muslim laborers, white-ethno-nationalist contours of French “universalism,” and scientific racism in medical research and practice in Algeria, reveal more about the birth of the gender clinic."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
Trans-Medicine-Beyond-War, Histories from Colonial Casablanca and Cairo
In March 2024, Beshouy Botros and Léopold met in a cafe in New Haven in the United States. Beshouy described their research, and more particularly some aspects of what they write about in the…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"...politics of land expropriation, subjugation of Arab and Amazigh Muslim laborers, white-ethno-nationalist contours of French “universalism,” and scientific racism in medical research and practice in Algeria, reveal more about the birth of the gender clinic."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...
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"These Afro-Arab itineraries and geographies of trans medicine can be understood as epistemic formations with material consequences in order to tease out an alternative history of the body across Northern Africa and its bearing on the medicalization of gender transition."
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"These Afro-Arab itineraries and geographies of trans medicine can be understood as epistemic formations with material consequences in order to tease out an alternative history of the body across Northern Africa and its bearing on the medicalization of gender transition."
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In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.
In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.
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good morning with @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🌸
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
good morning with @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🌸
In this multigenre text, Shripad Sinnakaar traces three trajectories to understand Hijra communities in India. Flitting across beauty parlors, local trains, TikTok videos, street protests, goddess’ temples, and Dalit bastis, these trajectories introduce us to identities and socialities that refuse
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In this multigenre text, Shripad Sinnakaar traces three trajectories to understand Hijra communities in India. Flitting across beauty parlors, local trains, TikTok videos, street protests, goddess’ temples, and Dalit bastis, these trajectories introduce us to identities and socialities that refuse