The Funambulist
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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 have a francophone version as well!
https://thefunambulist.net/shop/62-building-trans-communities
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
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
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
"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."
"A reckoning with the wars, imperial pasts and itineraries that shaped trans medicine moves beyond the simplistic retort that “the gender binary is colonial” to consider the ways in which transness emerged in relation to other sexes and sexualities."
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"A reckoning with the wars, imperial pasts and itineraries that shaped trans medicine moves beyond the simplistic retort that “the gender binary is colonial” to consider the ways in which transness emerged in relation to other sexes and sexualities."
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.
"The surplus of the caste society—the vulgar, the errant, the wayward—are not morally pure members of the society and any expectation of it is also a form of violence on them. As much as the state is responsible for their backward conditions, attributing all their sufferings solely to it, as
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"The surplus of the caste society—the vulgar, the errant, the wayward—are not morally pure members of the society and any expectation of it is also a form of violence on them. As much as the state is responsible for their backward conditions, attributing all their sufferings solely to it, as
to be subsumed under the Western definitions of trans.
"Who is to determine that two things cannot be true simultaneously, that a Panthi could desire penetration and still love a heterosexual woman? These are matters of self-identification that are beyond naming or struggles to legalise."
"Who is to determine that two things cannot be true simultaneously, that a Panthi could desire penetration and still love a heterosexual woman? These are matters of self-identification that are beyond naming or struggles to legalise."
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
to be subsumed under the Western definitions of trans.
"Who is to determine that two things cannot be true simultaneously, that a Panthi could desire penetration and still love a heterosexual woman? These are matters of self-identification that are beyond naming or struggles to legalise."
"Who is to determine that two things cannot be true simultaneously, that a Panthi could desire penetration and still love a heterosexual woman? These are matters of self-identification that are beyond naming or struggles to legalise."
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
to hold transphobic (usually transmisogynist) academics personally to account. This style of thinking protects those in institutions, and allows them to hide behind their offices. But why? Holding people to account is a solid way to change things—let people know what they do, and don’t allow people
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
to hold transphobic (usually transmisogynist) academics personally to account. This style of thinking protects those in institutions, and allows them to hide behind their offices. But why? Holding people to account is a solid way to change things—let people know what they do, and don’t allow people
and share among themselves, young trans people talk about living in bedrooms and not getting out. (One of the loudest protest groups is Trans Kids Deserve Better.) The suffocating social atmosphere constrains our lives. In strategy discussions, we hear from trans allies that it is “inappropriate”
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
and share among themselves, young trans people talk about living in bedrooms and not getting out. (One of the loudest protest groups is Trans Kids Deserve Better.) The suffocating social atmosphere constrains our lives. In strategy discussions, we hear from trans allies that it is “inappropriate”
forge practices of solidarity, care, and abolition feminism, resisting state violence and cultivating collective safety.
"The renewed rush of trans organizing by trans collectives, unions, organizations, and NGOs makes itself felt, heard, and seen. Meanwhile, in meetings, where trans people gather
"The renewed rush of trans organizing by trans collectives, unions, organizations, and NGOs makes itself felt, heard, and seen. Meanwhile, in meetings, where trans people gather
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
forge practices of solidarity, care, and abolition feminism, resisting state violence and cultivating collective safety.
"The renewed rush of trans organizing by trans collectives, unions, organizations, and NGOs makes itself felt, heard, and seen. Meanwhile, in meetings, where trans people gather
"The renewed rush of trans organizing by trans collectives, unions, organizations, and NGOs makes itself felt, heard, and seen. Meanwhile, in meetings, where trans people gather
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, authors of 'Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds' (2024), describe the ongoing transphobic reaction in Britain, particularly crystallized by the British Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling. Against this, trans communities and allies forge
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, authors of 'Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds' (2024), describe the ongoing transphobic reaction in Britain, particularly crystallized by the British Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling. Against this, trans communities and allies forge
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
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
"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
"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,
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
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.
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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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."
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
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.
"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
"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?"
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."
"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
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."
"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."
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
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,
"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
"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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The following text is written by William Tham and was originally published in Portside Review in 2023. It describes the ways through which Fan Chon revived this memory through both Ava’s photos and Anita’s words and how their gender identity escapes definitions and demarcations.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The following text is written by William Tham and was originally published in Portside Review in 2023. It describes the ways through which Fan Chon revived this memory through both Ava’s photos and Anita’s words and how their gender identity escapes definitions and demarcations.