In this latest podcast episode with Schirn Kunsthalle, I spoke with Jena Samura about the Kara Walker exhibition, “A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be”.

I interviewed Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro for the Decolonization in Action Podcast. Mba Bikoro’s work analyses processes of power & science fiction in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles & colonial memory focusing on queer indigenous and feminist biopolitics.

„Das Lesen, das Organisieren und auch das Erstellen von Erzähl-Archiven der Audio-Geschichten ist ein Weg neue Strategien zu entwickeln und damit auch sich die Zukunft vorstellen zu können.“

I am happy to announce that I will be a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France during the Fall. As a Core Fellow, I will join other creatives to support groundbreaking research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities.

On a rainy summer day in Berlin-Neukölln, I spoke with Moritz Gansen and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss. We met for a “theory conversation” initiated by Nacre Journal and loosely centered around the theme of its Issue 4, General Public.

With Decolonial Culture of Remembrance in the City, the Dekoloniale Netwerk in Berlin is a cultural project which began in January 2020 to critically examine the history of colonialism and its consequences. As a member of the network, I hope to work alongside other anti-colonial people in Germany.

Epidemics are not just about the bacteria and viruses that coexist with us; they also reflect the social divisions that push some people to the margins of society. Whether it is the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Black American communities or the high incidence of maternal mortality for Black people, we have to reckon with how histories and legacies of inequality create the phenomenon of premature death.

Koch designed, set up, and personally ran medical concentration camps in East Africa, causing immeasurable suffering and pain for thousands of people. So why are his colonial endeavours being ignored in modern conversations about his legacy?

How does a digital code become racist and when did it first begin to integrate itself into the technologies we use? The coding problem, for Benjamin, is the problem of how ‘race as a form of a form of technology’ is engineered by the humans who design the machinery.

As Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrice Khan-Cullors put it, being a Black mother means being someone “who has to carry the weight of having to protect her children in a world that is conspiring to kill them.”

I interviewered Tiffany Florvil for the Decolonization in Action Podcast and we discuss Black-led social movements in Germany, the history of German colonialism, and transforming academic institutions.

The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.