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The Funambulist The Funambulist Magazine | Politics of Space and Bodies It operates in parallel with two open-access online platforms: a blog and a podcast.

The Funambulist is a bimestrial printed and online magazine that examines the politics of space and bodies. The magazine was founded in 2015 by Léopold Lambert.

We are excited to announce that our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025) is going to be out i...
13/10/2025

We are excited to announce that our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025) is going to be out in two weeks from now!

Until October 31, we offer the possibility to preorder the print+digital version of our forthcoming issue, which constellates collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

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.

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

Pre-order our 62nd issue now to receive your print copy at the earliest.

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Collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world

"Many had fled to Southern Rhodesia, escaping Salazar’s conscriptions in central Mozambique. They worked for the railway...
06/10/2025

"Many had fled to Southern Rhodesia, escaping Salazar’s conscriptions in central Mozambique. They worked for the railways and on the settler farms. The railway stockyards and bottle stores where Africans gathered in the evening were ideal for sniffing out communist sympathizers—which is to say, any native with anti-Portuguese sentiments. Gwambe, knew to keep PIDE in the folds of your most private things. He had obtained his freedom from the Beira arrest by agreeing to become a PIDE informant, and was under orders to infiltrate the exile communities."

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You can read this contribution by Parselelo Kantai, which was commissioned and edited by Koni Benson, in our current issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025).



PARSELELO KANTAI COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY KONI BENSON Koni Benson: “Uhuru Hustlers” is less of a blindspot than a deep dive and extension of conversations that link, layer…

"In te ao Māori, a healthy community is one which collectively meets each person’s differing needs, through collaboratio...
29/09/2025

"In te ao Māori, a healthy community is one which collectively meets each person’s differing needs, through collaboration of the differing roles best held by each (he waka eke noa). This is reflected in the relatively-new term tākata whaikaha. This can be understood as “people who are capable/strong enough”—or, who have the appropriate abilities and contributions for their own distinct role in community."

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You can read this contribution by Zarae Whakaka Davis, which was commissioned and edited by Xan Coppinger, in our current issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025).



ZARAE WHAKAKA DAVIS COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY XAN COPPINGER ARTWORK BY OLIVIA CHIN Xan Coppinger: “Blindspots are vulnerable and intimate spaces. Inhabited by many, missed by many, erased by many.

"Indeed, the Latin American landscape appears to be fertile ground for discussing obstetric and gynecological violence, ...
26/09/2025

"Indeed, the Latin American landscape appears to be fertile ground for discussing obstetric and gynecological violence, as it is connected to several very current social struggles in the region, giving rise to strong positions and debates. One of the structures that underpins the fight against obstetric and gynecological violence is the general fight against gender violence. This issue is prevalent in the region thanks to various feminist movements that have gotten renewed popular support since the “Ni una menos” (Not one [woman] less) movement."

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You can read this contribution by Constanza Evans, which was commissioned and edited by Lissell Quiroz, in our current issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025).

This text has been translated from Spanish by Valentina Sarmiento Cruz.



CONSTANZA EVANS COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY LISSELL QUIROZ TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY VALENTINA SARMIENTO CRUZ Lissell Quiroz: The Funambulist is a magazine that covers a wide range of topics.

"We can’t abandon the rural to the Right, and most of our crews are in cities. Should we get more focused on building mi...
11/09/2025

"We can’t abandon the rural to the Right, and most of our crews are in cities. Should we get more focused on building militant landless and unhoused collectives reclaiming land from the absentee landlord and investment classes? Living deeply outside the state while living surrounded by it, a modern multicultural marronage, maybe that’s a way to build a Left flank?"

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You can read this conversation Between Antonio Roman-Alcalá and David E. Gilbert, which was commissioned and edited by Kai Bosworth, in our current issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025).



A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANTONIO ROMAN-ALCALÁ AND DAVID E. GILBERT COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY KAI BOSWORTH Kai Bosworth: For years, The Funambulist has examined land struggles in forests, urban areas…

"Through mockery, parody, and joy, the police clowns managed to protect the physical and even legal integrity of the str...
08/09/2025

"Through mockery, parody, and joy, the police clowns managed to protect the physical and even legal integrity of the strikers in the face of repression, while at the same time going viral on social media and in the mainstream media, denouncing the ridiculousness of the police force. Nothing disarms like parody. Every citizen who laughs at another video of the police clowns loses their fear of the oppressors."

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You can read this contribution by Luis Othoniel Rosa, which was commissioned and edited by WAI Architecture Think Tank, in our current issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025).

The text has been translated from Spanish by Felipe Guerra Arjona.



LUIS OTHONIEL ROSA COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY WAI ARCHITECTURE THINK TANK TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY FELIPE GUERRA ARJONA WAI Architecture Think Tank: How to loudread anti-colonial strategies and…

🎂✨ We are happy to share with you our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025), where ten gues...
04/09/2025

🎂✨ We are happy to share with you our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025), where ten guest editors address the magazine’s blind spots across its first decade.

These guest editors include Michaëla Danjé, Xan Coppinger, Lissell Quiroz, Kai Bosworth, Sara Greavu, Andrea Francke, Giuliana Vidarte, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Ana María León, and Koni Benson.

Additionally, this issue proposes a text about the usefulness of The Funambulist’s contents and editorial orientation by regular contributor Sinthujan Varatharajah, as well as descriptions from four readers, Adam Arca, Yamina Sam, Kimberly F. Monroe, and Juli Reithinger, about the issue they deemed most useful for their work and organizing.

In the News from the Fronts section, you can read a text on the continuity of plantation logics in the Dominican Republic’s tourism industry by Luisa Jimenéz, a description of the Brazilian state policies regarding the country’s semi-arid region by Leonel Olimpio, and an analysis of the use of spoil tips for antifascist and working-class organizing in the French miner city of Saint-Étienne by Thomas Goumarre.

The cover artwork is by Lori Micu.

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Ten Guest Editors Address the Magazine’s Blind Spots Across its First Decade

We are excited to announce that our new issue "Ten Years of The Funambulist" (September–October 2025) is going to be out...
26/08/2025

We are excited to announce that our new issue "Ten Years of The Funambulist" (September–October 2025) is going to be out in ten days from now!

Until September 04, we offer the possibility to preorder the print+digital version of our forthcoming issue, where ten guest editors address the magazine's blind spots across its first decade.

On August 13, 2015, in the e-flux headquarters in New York’s Lower East Side, Léopold, alongside contributors and friends Sadia Shirazi, geunsaeng ahn, and Minh-Ha T. Pham, launched The Funambulist magazine, after five years of existence of The Funambulist as a blog (and later, a podcast). Ten years later, we propose an issue to celebrate this anniversary and take a pause to reflect on our trajectory. Rather than engaging in a self-congratulatory exercise, this issue favors an introspective one, insisting on what we could have done better this past decade.

The cover artwork is by Lori Micu.

Pre-order our 61st issue now to receive your print copy at the earliest.

https://thefunambulist.net/shop/61-ten-years-funambulist

Separated by 18,000 kilometers, continental Malaysia and Honduras could hardly stand any further from each other geograp...
23/08/2025

Separated by 18,000 kilometers, continental Malaysia and Honduras could hardly stand any further from each other geographically. In contrast, this text by Semine Long-Callesen and Nancy Dayanne Valladares traces bridges between the two territories through British colonial and, later, US imperial past and present histories of botanical displacement and agricultural endeavors.

Read more in our current issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" (July–August 2025).



Separated by 18,000 kilometers, continental Malaysia and Honduras could hardly stand any further from each other geographically. In contrast, this text by Semine Long-Callesen and Nancy Dayanne…

Since late 2023, calls for solidarity with the Congo, particularly from the diaspora, have become increasingly pressing....
22/08/2025

Since late 2023, calls for solidarity with the Congo, particularly from the diaspora, have become increasingly pressing. Countless social media posts talk about hundreds of thousands—even millions—of killings in Kivu, genocide, a Rwandan invasion, Western extractivism… This text, commissioned from Onesphore Sematumba, who fled Goma a few hours before the invasion of the city by the M23, is the first outcome of our long learning process of a “political blind spot”—obscured by our understanding of the Great Lake region through an imaginary mostly influenced by the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. We wanted a reference text that would allow us to unravel the multiple layers of complexity in the situation, which Onesphore has generously provided.

(Translated from French by Léopold Lambert)

Read more in our current issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" (July–August 2025).



TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY LÉOPOLD LAMBERT Since late 2023, calls for solidarity with the Congo, particularly from the diaspora, have become increasingly pressing. Countless social media posts talk…

In her final year architecture thesis, Zara Metin presented an illustrated analysis of her grandmother’s neighborhood, “...
20/08/2025

In her final year architecture thesis, Zara Metin presented an illustrated analysis of her grandmother’s neighborhood, “Les 3000,” in the northeastern banlieues of Paris. She describes the drastic destruction that the large housing project has experienced these past years, as well as the daily resistance of its residents, who are always reconstructing forms of architectural expressions of their intimacy.

(Translated from French by Léopold Lambert)

Read more in our current issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" (July–August 2025).



TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY LÉOPOLD LAMBERT In her final year architecture thesis, Zara Metin presented an illustrated analysis of her grandmother’s neighborhood, “Les 3000…

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The Funambulist is a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Our hope is to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales. Through articles, interviews, artworks, and design projects, we are assembling an ongoing archive for anticolonial, antiracist, q***r, and feminist struggles. The print and online magazine is published every two months and operates in parallel with an open-access podcast and a blog. Editor-in-Chief: Léopold Lambert Editorial Assistant: Caroline Honorien Head of Strategic Outreach: Margarida Waco