In most global contexts, anti-trans politics align with rightwing populism and are part of wider attacks against LGBT+ rights, gender equality, reproductive justice, and sexual freedoms. The intern…

Protesters and police clashed in Bologna, Italy on Monday after Moroccan-born entrepreneur Abderrahim Fakir died while being forcibly restrained by police. Widely shared footage of Fakir's death show police holding the 42-year-old face-down on the ground, where he repeatedly calls for help before falling still.

Congress is shamefully fueling cruelty and human rights violations with an injection of nearly $70 billion taxpayer dollars

In February 2025, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) cancelled a planned lecture by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The un...

Divergent, often implicit, concepts of violence shape judgements about what counts as legitimate resistance or illegitimate harm, and about which actors and grievances become visible. Against this ...

The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

The language that researchers use to describe the increasingly violent reality in Gaza has become a contested space. Analytical terms like “genocide,” “self-defense,” “terrorism,” and “resistance,” wh...

Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary

In February 2025, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) cancelled a planned lecture by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The…

For this edition of Spätschicht, the collective Queer Analog Darkroom take over Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled 2025 (waiting room), a common space at Gropius Bau, opening it as a temporary refuge. Taki...

Despite being embedded in longstanding structures of oppression and occupation, the genocide in Gaza is experienced across the globe as a critical juncture that unsettles prior categorizations of v...

Nach den ICE-Morden in den USA ist das Abgrenzungsbedürfnis in Europa groß. Dabei ist die Migrationsabwehr der EU keineswegs humaner – der Unterschied ist nur, dass die rechtlose Gewalt ins Mittelmeer und nach Nordafrika ausgelagert wird.

Heute wurde in Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datena...

In Bochum hat die Polizei auf ein zwölfähriges Mädchen geschossen. Der Zustand des Kindes ist nach einer OP kritisch, aber stabil.