Statements

INPUTS shows solidarity with people in war zones worldwide

Since the Russian attack on Ukraine we have a war in Europe, a war that we have not seen since Hitler's megalomaniac world war, a war that even now is unimaginable and incomprehensible for most Europeans, a war that brings death, terrible suffering, destroyed cities and landscapes, destroyed lives and trauma. 

We stand in solidarity with all Ukrainians who are suffering from the war, defending their country, fearing for their lives, living in ruins or fleeing. We stand in solidarity with all the people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus who are courageously demonstrating against the war or who are working as journalists or activists to inform about its inhumane consequences. We thank all people in Europe and worldwide, who so selflessly support Ukraine and help people fleeing regardless of their nationality and origin. 

At the same time, there are wars and conflicts that are less present in Europe, in Syria, Yemen and other areas, wars and conflicts that cause just as much death, suffering, destruction and trauma. For years, Kurds and Uyghurs have been subjected to the most severe repressions in Turkey and China. After the Taliban took power, a humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Afghanistan and further catastrophes in Somalia and other areas due to rising wheat prizes. People in these areas also need help from Europe, for political resistance, for bare survival, for flight. 

We stand in solidarity with people in all areas ravaged by wars, totalitarian regimes and humanitarian catastrophes. We speak out against systemic and individual unequal treatment of people fleeing, against a stealthy racialization of people fleeing that divides them into welcome and less welcome groups. We speak out against any kind of racism, discrimination and violence in crisis areas and on refugee routes. 

INPUTS Bremen

Call for Donations to Black Lives Matter-Movement

As has been widely reported and discussed in the German press by now, millions of citizens have protested in the US and worldwide. They all demand an end to the murderous police violence against Black people and an end to the structural, institutional antiblack violence which – as the afterlife of slavery – marks the everyday lives of Black populations. How much those unbroken practices of violence dominate over all areas of Black life has been amply demonstrated during the last months: Black people have been victimized by illness and death of Covid-19 in disproportionally higher numbers due to the structural exclusion of Black people from the already precarious health care system in the USA.

This movement has taken to the streets now across the US and has already – in the face of the most massive police terror and legal prosecutions of their protest – successfully fought for the prosecution of all four police officers now indicted of the murder of George Floyd. This struggle though will continue way beyond this to pursue radical antiracist demands with the ultimate goal of abolishing the police apparatus.

For now, though, the protest is highly endangered by president Trump’s fascist politics, in particular his announcement that “when there is looting, there will be shooting” and the recent deployment of army units in major American cities – which threatens military intervention by the state against its own population. This has only been the latest escalation of Trump’s absolute lack of scruples in order to – at any cost – secure and aggressively expand his own interests and the persistence of white social and economic power. This policy includes the president’s public support and activation of white militias groups. 

This escalation has initiated a broad and ongoing debate on the side of the liberal US public (as in the press, higher education and cultural institutions) – who, particularly in view of the elections in November, calls for the destruction of the system Trump.

The movement for Black Lives Matter will not leave the streets, however, because it is obvious that only grassroots struggles and radical public pressure has been, and will be, able to put the defense of Black lives and any possible realization of civil rights for Black people on the agenda. Accordingly, the white majority population in the US sees themselves confronted one more time in the long history of Black liberation struggles with the urgent question of: which side are you on? It is this Black movement which has insisted that the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others have not been scandalous exceptions, which could lead to spontaneous rage that peters out quickly. Instead these murders are part and parcel of the encompassing systemic violence on the part of a US white majority population for whom Black life has no human value – as Black organizations, as well as activists and intellectuals (from Fredrick Douglass through James Baldwin to Frank Wilderson, and from Harriet Brent Jacobs through Angela Davis to Toni Morrison and Christina Sharpe and the countless Black feminist organizers of the Black Lives Matter – movement) have decried for decades.

As many European, including German, Black organizations, initiatives and activists have amply demonstrated, this structural racism is a transnational practice. Germany’s civil structures (in the political, social and cultural sectors – most visibly also the sector of Higher Education) have been and keep reproducing the exclusion of Black people. In Germany, too, the Black community has demanded an end to this systemic racism for decades. At this point, nobody can retreat into a position of ignorant innocence. 

The situation now demands not only declarations of solidarity, but instead calls for massive political interventions – this will be a struggle to outlast the sensationalist media agenda of this moment. Right now, the Black Lives Matter-movement urges their allies and supporters to give substantial donations in order to back their work: huge amounts of money will be necessary to finance legal costs but also to support incarcerated activists. 

Therefore, the INPUTS at U Bremen, Germany (after correspondence with activist members of the movement), calls on its members and supporters and the public to donate to the following organizations:

Support for incarcerated women: https://donorbox.org/operationrestoration

Bail out Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/

For further information see also: https://www.aaihs.org/status-of-the-bail-funds/

Atlanta – what exactly happened?

Open Letter

Berlin, 16th April 2021

For Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan and Yong Ae Yue

Open Letter

Atlanta – what exactly happened?

Against anti-Asian racism and silence!

For cross-community solidarity and decolonized remembrance!

Exactly one month ago today, on March 16, 2021, six Asian immigrant women from China and Korea and two white clients were murdered in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia by a young white Christian fundamentalist. Activists from Asian-diasporic communities held a candlelight vigil for the victims of the racist and sexist attacks at the Peace Statue Against Sexual Violence Towards Women in Berlin on March 23, 2021. A rally was also held in front of Brandenburg Gate across from the U.S. Embassy on March 28, 2021.

We are a diverse group of people with different stories, from different Asian German communities, as well as from other Asian diasporas. We demonstrate transnational solidarity with Asian American communities. With our political engagement and action, we want to raise awareness for and oppose anti-Asian racism. This can only be done in solidarity with the fight against other forms of racism as well as sexism and classism!

With dismay, we notice that the socio-political significance of this anti-Asian mass murder continues to not be recognised in the U.S. and, to an even lesser-degree, in Germany. Politically, the massacre of innocent and unarmed victims has not yet been classified as a terrorist attack, nor has it been prosecuted as a racially-motivated hate crime. Yet, there is no question that the murders were premeditated and targeted Asian women in Asian-diasporic areas with inhuman brutality. Given the scale and gravity of this event, we are disappointed and angry; however, we are not surprised that the majority of German media has paid little to no attention to it. Furthermore, insufficient information was reported on the historical and social context and background. German politics and society have also failed to acknowledge these murders. These failures perpetuate a tradition in which anti-Asian racism is systematically underestimated in society, institutionally negated, and still, too often, made invisible.

We reject the vilification and refuse to be scapegoats for the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 3,750 attacks against Asian Americans have been recorded in the U.S. since the beginning of 2020. In Germany, too, verbal and physical attacks on Asian Germans have risen drastically. The fact that statistics on anti-Asian racism only started to be gathered and documented recently, is telling. Yet, anti-Asian racism is not a new phenomenon in Germany. A system of anti-Asian racism established roots in Germany when Germany colonized Chinese and Pacific territories in the 19th century. The racist pogroms in Hoyerswerda in 1991 and in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992, as well as the murders of Nguyễn Ngọc Châu and Đỗ Anh Lân in Hamburg in 1980, Phan Văn Toản in Fredersdorf in 1997, Duy-Doan Pham in Neuss in 2011, and the rape and murder of Yangjie Li in Dessau in 2016, among others, demonstrate examples of historical continuity. Our commitment against anti-Asian racism is fundamentally connected to anti-racist struggles and historical experiences of other communities of color. This includes, for example, confronting NSU terrorism, the attack in Hanau, and our support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

One year after the racist terrorist attack in Hanau, there is still no federal strategy to combat racism. It remains unclear how the measures presented by the Kabinettausschuss gegen Rechtsextremismus und Rassismus (Cabinet Committee for the Fight Against Right-Wing Extremism and Racism) are to be implemented. The CDU's blocking of the Demokratiefördergesetz (the Democracy Promotion Law) also demonstrates, once again, that the fight against racism and right-wing extremism is not prioritized and that the commitment of civil society organisations is not valued.

Our demands:

1. We call on the German government to recognise anti-Asian racism and recognise Asian and Asian-diasporic people as a vulnerable group worthy of protection in their “National Action Plan against Racism.”

Furthermore, Germany is called upon to conduct transparent data collection on both a political and legal level to identify systemic structural and institutional marginalization, exclusion, and exploitation of Asian-diasporic persons as a racialized, ethnicized, and culturalized group of people in Germany.

2. We demand the acknowledgement of Asian/Asian German perspectives in institutional decolonisation processes as well as the recognition of multiple perspectives in the politics of remembrance.

In the context of decolonisation initiatives, it is vital to critically confront and examine the institutional, cultural, and educational patterns of exclusion and thought. Areas in Africa, parts of Asia, and the Pacific were also targets of German colonial expansions. A postcolonial Germany is only possible if the political demands of an inclusive, discrimination-free, and democratic society are respected. To achieve this, the equal inclusion and perspectives of community organisations, post-migrant scholars, and cultural workers have to be taken into account. We also support the demands for the clarification of colonial cultural theft and its immediate restitution. We are also in favour of reparations to all former colonies of Germany, although these colonial crimes cannot be erased or amended.

3. We demand that anti-racist learning approaches be enshrined in the educational system – from daycare to university.

In order to ensure the longevity and sustainability of structural changes and to fight racism, the revision of curricula in educational institutions is indispensable. This includes a critical analysis of and confrontation with German colonial history and its lasting effects up to the present day, migrant knowledge and perspectives regarding past and present migration, as well as the confrontation with different forms of racist discrimination.

4. We need institutional structures that can adequately represent the spectrum of social diversity–from the topics to the people – this is particularly applicable to the media sector.

Journalism schools, film and art colleges, media publishers, funding institutes, and editorial offices are of particular importance, because their work can (re)produce racist narratives or make a meaningful impact and contribution towards coexistence with less discrimination. We do not want to be alone with our grief and resistance. We are grateful that many people from different communities of color and also white people from German society demonstrate their solidarity and support us in our protests. We don't want to just react, we want to be increasingly proactive and engage in an exchange of solidarity with other post-migrant organisations and communities. We call on all interested people to take a stand against anti-Asian racism. It is close to our hearts to join together, equally, and oppose all globally intertwined forms of racism, sexism, neocolonial exploitation, and oppression.

Solidary organisations, institutions, and groups, as well as individuals can support this open letter as co-signers even after its publication!

Permalink: www.korientation.de/atlanta-offener-brief

Contact email address: kontaktasiatische-deutsche.org

Hashtag: #StopAntiAsianRacism

Initiative Group (FLINTA alphabetical)

Sara Djahim (korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.), Jee-Un Kim (korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.), Victoria Kure-Wu (ichbinkeinvirus.org), Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn (ichbinkeinvirus.org), Thủy-Tiên Nguyễn (korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.), Tú Qùynh-nhu Nguyễn, Cuso Ehrich (Diaspor.Asia), Dieu Hao Do (BAFNET), Kien Nghi Ha.

First Signatories

Asian-German or Asian-Diasporic Initiatives and Organisations

(alphabetical)

• Afghan Refugees Movement
• AK Asia:Deutsche des Autonomen BIPoC Referates der Universität zu Köln
• Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL), Berlin
• Asian Voices Europe
• Ban Ying e.V. Koordinations- und Beratungsstelle gegen Menschenhandel
• Berlin Asian Film Network (BAFNET)
• Berlin For India
• Bundesverband der Vietnamesen in Deutschland (BVD)
• Deutsche Asiat*innen, Make Noise! (DAMN!)
• diaCRITICS Magazine, USA
• Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), USA
• DIASPOR.ASIA
• DIGNITY FOR ASIANS IN GERMANY
• Ensemble ~su, Berlin
• Hamam Talk Podcast
• ichbinkeinvirus.org
• Koreaverband e.V.
• Korea Stiftung
• Koreanische Adoptierte Deutschland (KAD) e. V. Bonn
• korientation. Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
• MAI LING - Verein zur Förderung von zeitgenössischer, asiatischer Kunst und Kultur, Wien Migrant Support Network e.V.
• MSG & Friends
• Perilla – Verein zur Förderung und Sichtbarmachung der asiatischen Diaspora in Österreich
• Philippine Studies Series Berlin
• Rice Up! - Netzwerk, Sachsen
• Solidarity of Korean People in Europe
• Tiger.Riots
• Vietnamesischer Verein Trier und Umgebung e.V.
• Vietnam-Zentrum Hannover e.V.
• W.I.R. - Werdauer Initiative gegen Rassismus e.V., Sachsen

First Signatories

Asian-German or Asian-Diasporic Individuals (alphabetical)

• Souzan AlSabah, Inhaberin Praxis AlSabah - Praxis für systemische Therapie und intersektionale Gesundheit, Köln
• Viktoria So Hee Alz, Drehbuchautorin, Berlin
• Shiva Amiri, freie Bildungsreferent*in, Trainer*in, Künstler*in, Frankfurt am Main
• Yela An, Künstlerin, Wien AT
• Amina Aziz, Journalist*in
• Melmun Bajarchuu, Dramaturgin/critical companion & Produktionsleitung, Berlin, Sophiensæle und Initiative für Solidarität am Theater (ISaT)
• Abilaschan Balamuraley, Maangai Podcast, Berlin
• Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Kuratorin, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee, Chair of American Studies, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Biplab Basu, Mitarbeiter Reachout/KOP. Opferberatung und Bildung gegen Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus, Berlin
• Dr. Heike Berner, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Köln
• Hà Ngo Bich, DAMN!, Berlin
• Dr. Erica Brindley, Professor of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University
• Viet Duc Bui, Hotelfachmann, München
• Dr. Jana Cattien, Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
• Dr. Kyung-Ho Cha, Dozent, Mitglied korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Mi Young Chae, Diezenbach
• Dr. Myung Soo Chae, Rechtswissenschaftler, Diezenbach
• Prof. Dr. Yong-Seun Chang-Gusko, Kosin University, Busan/Korea, Vorstand Korea Stiftung und Geschäftsführer maxingpact gGmbH
• Helen Chau, Master Studierende Lebensmitteltechnologie, Freising
• Kuan-Chen Chen, Studentin der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Berlin
• Xiyin Celine Chen, Studentin, München
• Karen Cheung, Kuratorin und Produzentin
• Joanne Miyang Cho, Professor, History Department, William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Dong-Ha Choe, Fotograf, Berlin
• Dr. Sun-Ju Choi, neue deutsche medienmacher*innen e.V., korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Tai Ho Choi, Vorsitzender des Vereins der Koreanischen Minjung-Kultur e.V, Hattingen
• Dr. Keum Sun Chong, Berlin
• Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, anthropologist, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Philippine Studies Series Berlin
• Yen Dang, Köln
• Dieu Linh Dao, Entrepreneur, Co-Gründerin VLab Berlin und Knowledge Transfer Associate Freie Universität Berlin
• Lizza May David, Künstlerin, Vorstandsmitglied korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Philippine Studies Series Berlin
• Smaran Dayal, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, New York University
• Sumona Dhakal, politische Bildnerin, Masterstudentin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Netzwerk für Demokratie und Courage (NDC)
• Sabrina Diekow, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Ly-Gung Dieu, Sozialarbeiterin, Antidiskriminierungsberatung KiDs - Kinder vor Diskriminierung schützen!, Berlin
• My Anh Dinh B.A., Wien
• Thien Ditze, Fotograf, Berlin
• Sara Djahim, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
• Dieu Hao Do, Autor und Regisseur, Berlin Asian Film Network, Vielfalt im Film, Berlin
• Hue San Do, Referentin beim Bildungsnetzwerk China, Berlin
• Trong Do Duc, Leipzig
• Tuan Do Duc, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Kurator, Leipzig
• Viet Duong Duc, Masterstudent Biotechnologie an der Beuth-Hochschule für Technik Berlin
• Raquel Kishori Dukpa, Filmemacherin, JÜNGLINGE, Berlin
• Thúy Chinh Dương, Berlin
• Cuso Ehrich, Bildungsreferent:in, Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum für Antirassismusarbeit in NRW (IDA-NRW)
• Sarah F.
• Popo Fan, Independent Filmmaker, Activist, Curator, Berlin
• Yannic Han Biao Federer, Schriftsteller, Köln
• Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Doktorand und @AsianGermanUpdates auf Instagram, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Sung Un Gang, Kulturwissenschaftler, Podcaster "Bin ich süßsauer?", Köln
• Sayaka Ganz, Artist, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Qiang Gu, Bürokaufmann bzw. Area Sales und Produkt Manager Asia, Hamburg
• Walter Grunt, Mediengestalter, KARAKAYA TALKS
• Linda H.
• Dr. Kien Nghi Ha, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaftler, Universität Tübingen und korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
• Linda Hafeneger, Studentin, Essen
• Thao Ho, Studentin, Berlin
• Marcel Hopp, Lehrer und Podcast Co-Host von „Power of Color“, Berlin
• Leh Hwang, Graphic Design Student, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin
• Jungeun Jang, Artist, Asian Voices Europe, Berlin
• Kyung Ok Jang, Rentnerin, Hattingen
• Frank Joung, Journalist & Podcaster, Halbe Katoffl, Berlin
• Wooyoung Jun, Künstler, Wien AT
• Sae Yun Jung, Animation Filmemacher, Köln
• Suk Kang, Bankangestellte, Frankfurt
• Dîlan Yekda Karacadağ, Medienschaffende, Hanau
• Esra Nayeon Karakaya, Produzentin und Journalistin, KARAKAYA TALKS
• Ayesha Khan, Redakteurin und Journalistin, Frankfurt am Main
• Angelika Kim, Sozial- und WIrtschaftswissenschaftlerin, Dachverband der Migrant:innenorganisationen in Ostdeutschland DaMOst e.V., W.I.R. - Werdauer Initiative gegen Rassismus e.V., Initiative Postmigrantisches Radio
• Bo-Sung Kim, Musikerin/Performer*in, Berlin
• Caroline Kim, Berlin
• Jee-Un Kim, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Kyung Tae Kim, Unternehmer, Berlin
• Dr. Natalie Kim, Hamburg
• Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Künstlerin-Kuratorin-Aktivistin, Berlin/Frankfurt a.M.
• Soon-Sil Kim, Schriftstellerin, Taunus
• Sylbee Kim, Künstlerin, Berlin
• Youngeun Koo, Ph.D candidate, University of Tübingen
• Dr. Aki Krishnamurthy, Referentin für Antirassismus und Empowerment Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
• Divina Kuan, Regisseurin & Filmproduzentin, Berlin
• Victoria Kure-Wu, Digital Konzepterin, Berlin
• Obok Kwon, Unternehmer, Berlin
• Long Lam
• Laura Lasswell, Unternehmensberaterin, Berlin
• Venus Le, Sozialarbeiterin, Berlin
• Felix Yang-Hua Leckebusch, Elektroingenieur, München
• Haebin Lee, Assistant Professor, Hoseo University Cheonan
• Yundok Lee, Priester/Lehrer für Won-Buddhismus, Won-Buddhistischer Tempel Regensburg
• Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee, Abteilungsdirektor Koreanistik der Universität Tübingen
• Candy Leong, Projektmanagerin, München
• Fook Choy Leong, Koch, Günzburg
• Franco Leong, Fachinformatiker, München
• Joanne Leong, Bachelor Studierende Soziale Arbeit, Berlin
• Karen Leong, Bachelor Studierende Modedesign, Hamburg
• Tieu Muoi Leong, Gastronomin, Günzburg
• Steven Li, Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut/Systemischer Supervisor, KJP am Neumarkt/Supervision am Neumarkt, Köln
• Han-Na Lie, Bibliothekarin, Taunus
• Jung Lin, Student, Cologne
• Min Lin, Ph.D Student, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
• Chang Liu, Ph.D Candidate and Lecturer, Universität Heidelberg
• Virginia Lui, Künstlerin, Dänemark
• Christopher Lukman, Berlin
• Jasmin Luu, Regisseurin, Drehbuchautorin und Gründerin von Seoi Collective, Hamburg
• Dr. Hanna Hoa Anh Mai, Diplom-Pädagogin und Erziehungswissenschaftlerin, Berlin
• Joo-Seuk Maing, Diplom-Ökonom, Tokyo
• Jin Hyang Moeck-Kim, Rentnerin, Berlin
• Mari Nagaoka, Pädagogin und politische Bildungsreferentin, Bildungsstätte Bredbeck, Bremen
• Jeasuthan Nageswaran, Diversity-Trainer, Vorstandsmitglied korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Saboura Naqshband, Politikwissenschaftler*in, Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) und Berlin Muslim Feminists
• NASHI44, Rapperin, Berlin
• Kim Oanh Navarro, Groß-& Außenhandelskauffrau, Hamburg
• Văn Bình Nghiêm, Diplom-Jurist, Berlin
• Minh Tam Ngo, Strategic Designer, Berlin
• Yung Ngo, Schauspieler, Pulheim
• Ân Nguyễn, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Angelika Nguyen, Filmwissenschaftlerin und Autorin, Berlin
• Dan Thy Nguyen, fluctoplasma Festival, Studio Marshmallow, Hamburg
• Duc Nguyen, Logopäde, Berlin
• Giang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Lehrerin (in Ausbildung), Freie Universität Berlin/Bildungsoase Berlin UG/Studierende machen Schule GbH, Berlin
• Hiyan N., Aktivist bei Migrant Voices Halle, Halle (Saale)
• Hảo-Thơ Nguyễn
• Lina O. Nguyen, Bühnenbildnerin, Berlin
• Maria Denise Nguyen, Frankfurt am Main
• Nhu Nguyet Nguyen
• Như Ý/ Linda Nguyễn, Studentische Hilfskraft der Kunstpädagogik, Kunsthochschule Mainz
• Phuong Thanh Nguyen, Kommunikationsdesignerin und Filmemacherin, W.I.R. - Werdauer Initiative gegen Rassismus e.V.
• Phương Thúy Nguyễn, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftlerin, Hochschule Mittweida, W.I.R. - Werdauer Initiative gegen Rassismus e.V.
• Quang Nguyễn-Xuân, Werbetexter und politischer Bildungsreferent, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Quynh Le Nguyen, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Thanh Dung Nguyen Webentwicklerin, Berlin
• Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn, freie Autorin, Medienwissenschaftlerin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Thuy My Nguyen
• Thủy-Tiên Nguyễn, freie Tanztheaterschaffende, politische Bildnerin, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., NRW / Berlin
• Toan Nguyen, freiberuflicher Bildungsreferent und Berater, Berlin
• Tú Qùynh-nhu Nguyễn, Geschäftsführerin der AG Mädchen* Freiburg, Sozialpädagogin (mit Schwerpunkt Diskriminierungskritik), politische Bildungsreferentin, freie Autorin
• Prof. Dr. Van Thoai Nguyen, Universität Trier
• Vo Duy Thanh Nguyen, Elektroniker, München
• Shanti Suki Osman, Musikpädagogin, Musikerin, Musikwissenschaftlerin an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Berlin
• Elizabeth C. Palathra, Grundschullehrerin, Berlin
• So Jin Park, Berlin
• Dr. Antony Pattathu, Heidelberg
• Rosy Patttahu, Krankenschwester, Bad Bergzabern
• Murali Perumal, Schauspieler, Diversity Aktivist
• Giang Pham, Visual Designerin, Berlin
• Hong Anh Pham, Studentin, TU und UDK, Berlin
• Marque Pham (MSG & Friends) Berlin
• Thanh Thu Pham, UI/UX Designerin
• Billy Phan, Student/Praktikant, Karlsruhe
• Liliane Phan, Master International Business an der Universität Tübingen
• Vanessa Phan, Master Sales, Ravensburg
• Lê Phan-Warnke, Forschung und Politikberatung zu Menschenrechten, Berlin
• Dr. Mariam Popal, Allgemeine und Comparative Literature, Universität Bayreuth
• Pete Prison IV
• Mazyar Rahmani, Ingenieur, Berlin
• Iris Rajanayagam, Leitung, xart splitta e.V. Berlin
• Mala Reinhardt, Filmemacherin, Berlin
• Stefanie Ren, Drehbuchautorin, Berlin
• kate-hers RHEE, Künstlerin, Berlin
• Young Sook Rippel, Vorsitzende der Organisation Solidarity of Korean People in Europe, Berlin
• Dr. Suin Roberts, Associate Professor of German, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA
• Rebecca Roth, Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen, Berlin
• Dr. So Young Ryou, Ärztin, Diezenbach
• Ngoc Anh Sattler
• Anika Schäfer, Studentin, Nürnberg
• Sylvia Schedelbauer, Filmemacherin, Berlin
• Sina Schindler, Projektkoordination MEGA, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Laura Shirin, Politische Performerin, Berlin
• Anna So-Shim Schumacher, M.A. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Koordination im Projekt "Zusammenleben Willkommen", Köln
• Dr. med. Kyung-Hee Lee-Schumacher, Ärztin und Künstlerin, Heidelberg
• Bastian So-Song Schumacher, Medizinstudent, Zagreb/Heidelberg
• Dr. Marc Schwalbach, Ingenieur, Berlin
• Dr. Roshni Sengupta, Institute of Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
• Jiye Seong, Operations Assistant, Clingendael - The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Hague, NL
• Qinna Shen, Associate Professor of German, Department of German and German Studies, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA
• Hyo Jin Shin, Musiker*in/Performer*in & Projektmanagerin, Tangram Projects, Berlin
• Eui Ok Shu, Heilpraktikerin, Berlin
• Prof. Sunny Singh, London Metropolitan University, U.K.
• Dasniya Sommer, Tänzerin/Choreografin, Berlin-Wedding
• Miae Son, Künstlerin, Wien AT
• Mia Spengler, Regisseurin/Autorin, Produzentin, House of Nabi
• Yen-My Steudten, Einzelhandelskauffrau, Hamburg
• Manoj Su, Sicherheitsfachmann, Erkelenz
• Dr. des. Kimiko Suda, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., Berlin
• Dr. Raphael Won-Pil Suh, Rechtsanwalt, Regional Governor für Deutschland der IAKL Int. Association of Korean Lawyers
• Thea Suh, Musikwissenschaftlerin, DonnaSori Podcast, Hamburg
• Makoto Takeda, migrantischer Unternehmer, Papas of Color, Berlin
• Yvonne Tang, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Eppingen, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
• Prof. Dr. Chris Tedjasukmana, Professor für Alltagsmedien und Digitale Kulturen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Frankfurt am Main
• Ritz Tidoso, Kindergartenpädagoge, Wien, Österreich
• Sung Tieu, Künstlerin
• Bilal Torun, Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragter bei freier zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften e.V.
• Anita Tran, Holztechnologin, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
• Daniela Khánh Duyên Trần, Ethnologie B.A., Mainz
• Hoai Phuong Tran Thi, Videojournalistin, Hamburg
• Kila Tran
• Nathalie Trần
• Ngoc Anh Sarah Tran Duong, Studentin, München
• Ngoc Bich Alexandra Tran Duong, Studentin, München
• Sandy-Julia Trần, Sozialarbeiterin, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V., München
• Sophie Trần
• Thao Nguyen Yen Tran, Studentin, wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im FEM Power Netzwerk Sachsen-Anhalt
• Thu Hoài Trần, Theatermacher*in & Bildungsvermittler*in, Berlin
• Hai Anh Trieu, Filmemacherin & Künstlerin, Berlin
• Van-Lam Trinh, Künstler*in, Hildesheim
• Sarnt Utamachote, Filmemacher und Kurator, un.thai.tled Kollektiv Berlin
• Jasper J. Verlinden, M.A., Lecturer in English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Victoria, korientation - Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
• Trang Vo, Filmstudentin, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Ngoc Le Huan Vu, Filmproduzent, Regisseur, Autor, Ludwigsburg
• Simon Dat Vu, Cinematographer, Berlin
• Xuân Ái Nhi Vũ, Sozialarbeiterin in München
• Thu Hien Vuong, Ingenieursstudentin, TU Berlin
• Berthold Wahjudi, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Kai Wang, English Trainer/Referent für Dachau KZ-Gedenkstätte/Fahrrad Mechaniker/Social Justice und Radikal Diversity Trainer(auszubildende), München
• Xin Wang, Studentin, Freie Universität Berlin
• Ming Wong, Artist, Professor, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
• Beina Xu, writer / filmmaker, Berlin
• Marie Yan, Autorin und Dramaturgin, Berlin
• Hui Ye, Künstlerin, Wien AT
• Dilan Yildirim, Studentin, Deutschland
• Shi Yin, Architektin, Wien
• Chandrika Yogarajah, Freie Journalistin, MA Kandidatin am Institut Asien - und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
• Jae-Hyun Yoo, Künstler & Kurator, Vorstand Art5 e.V., München/Seoul
• Jin-Bum Yoon, Rechtsanwalt, Frankfurt
• Woon Sup Yoon, Rentner, Pulheim
• Young Tak Yoon, Rentner, Essen
• Weina Zhao, Filmemacherin und Autorin, Perilla Zine, Wien
• Caro Zhu, Deutschland
• Juli Zhu, Psychologin, Köln

Other Supporters

Initiatives and Organisations (alphabetical)

• (un)Sichtbar - BIPoC Inititiative
• AfroPolitan Berlin
• Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Berlin
• amira - Antidiskriminierungsberatung, Hamburg
• AntiDiskriminierungsBüro Köln
• Antidiskriminierungsnetzwerk Berlin des Türkischen Bund in Berlin-Brandenburg
• Autonomes BIPoC-Referat im AStA der Uni Münster
• Autonomes BIPoC Referat Universität zu Köln
• bbk berlin - berufsverband bildender künstler*innen berlin e.V.
• Berlin Postkolonial e.V.
• Bildungswerkstatt Migration & Gesellschaft
• BiPoc-ensemble netzwerk e.V. Berlin
• BIPoC+ Feminismen* Tübingen
• BIPoC*Freiburg
• BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
• BIWOC* Rising, Berlin
• Black Brown Berlin
• Black Earth Climate Justice Kollektiv, Berlin
• The Black Humanitarian
• BLM-Flensburg
• Black Womxn Matter Deutschland
• BlackInTech Berlin
• Bremen Solidarity Centre (BreSoC) e.V.
• Büro für diskriminierungskritische Arbeit Stuttgart
• Bundesjugendwerk der AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt)
• Bundeskonferenz der Migrantenorganisationen (BKMO)
• Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ)
• Coach e.V., Köln
• Copwatch Frankfurt
• Dachverband der Migrant:innenorganisationen in Ostdeutschland DaMOst e.V.
• DaMigra – Dachverband der Migrantinnenorganisationen e.V.
• Diversity Roundtable of the German Association for American Studies
• DADDY Magazine, We are DADDY Media, Berlin
• Decolonize Bremen
• Decolonize Academia Tübingen
• DIELINKE.SDS KÖLN
• Each One Teach One e.V., Berlin
• empower - Beratung für Betroffene rechter, rassistischer und antisemitischer Gewalt in Hamburg
• ezra - Beratung für Betroffene rechter, rassistischer, antisemitischer Gewalt
• glokal e.V.
• Holla e.V., Zentrum für intersektionale Gesundheit, Köln
• Fairburg Interkultureller Verein e.V., Freiburg
• Flüchtlingsrat Berlin e.V.
• Geschäftsstelle AG Mädchen* in der Jugendhilfe, Freiburg i.Br.
• IDiRa (Initiative für Diskriminierungssensibilität und Rassismuskritik) Hannover
• Initiative Kein Generalverdacht
• Initiative postkolonialer Stadtrundgang Flensburg
• Initiative Postmigrantisches Radio, Ostdeutschland
• Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS), Universität Bremen
• Integrationshaus e.V., Köln
• ISD Gießen - Initiative Schwarze Deutsche und Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland, Regionalgruppe Gießen
• KARFI - Schwarzes Kollektiv für Empowerment und rassismuskritische Bildung
• Kidayo, Initiative für afrodeutsche / Schwarze Kinder in Freiburg
• Kollektiv KlimaDeSol - Klima Dekolonial und Solidarisch
• Kompetenzzentrum Anti-Schwarzer Rassismus
• Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e.V. (KuB)
• Kuratorium "Dear White People" Symposium, Freiburg i.Br.
• Label Noir Künstlerkollektiv, Berlin
• Mensch Mensch Mensch e.V., Berlin
• Migrantifa Hildesheim - Von & für BIPoCs
• Migrantischer Verein Migration, Entwicklung und Partizipation (MEPa) e.V.
• Netzwerk für (rassismus)kritische Migrationsforschung: Repräsentation, Community & Empowerment
• neue deutschen organisationen e.V.
• neue unentd_ckte narrative
• Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V.
• Opferperspektive – Solidarisch gegen Rassismus, Diskriminierung und rechte Gewalt e.V.
• Our Voice-Redaktion von Radio Dreyeckland. Freiburg i.Br.
• Ousa Collective, Berlin
• philippinenbüro e.V.
• Polnischer Sozialrat, Berlin
• ReachOut - Opferberatung und Bildung gegen Rassismus, Rechtsextremismus und Antisemitismus, Berlin
• Reality Diversity Talk (rassismus- bzw. diskrimimierungskritische Social Media-Seite) aus Deutschland
• Reistrommel e.V., Berlin
• SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
• Schülerpaten Deutschland e.V.
• Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln
• Soligruppe Kiez-Döner, Halle
• SWANS Initiative, Berlin
• Tritta* - Verein für feministische Mädchen_arbeit, Freiburg i.Br.
• Verein ufuq.de
• unofficial.pictures, Leipzig/Suhl
• Verband der Beratungsstellen für Betroffene rechter, rassistischer und antisemitischer Gewalt e.V.,
• Verband für interkulturelle Wohlfahrtspflege, Empowerment und Diversity
• Verein Iranischer Flüchtlinge in Berlin e.V.
• Wayv Run Kollektiv, Berlin
• Women in Exile
• W3_Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik e.V.
• Xart Splitta e.V., Berlin
• XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin

Other Supporters

Individuals (alphabetical)

• Dr. Aischa Ahmed, Historikerin, Berlin
• Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Politikwissenschaftler, Menschenrechtsaktivist
• Muna AnNisa Aikins, Sozialwissenschaftlerin, Berlin
• Raaed Al Kour, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Gabriele Alex, Tübingen
• Jîyan Alkan, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Michael AlliMadi, Panafrikanische Organisation
• Reinaldo Pinto Almeida, Filmemacher, Berlin
• Dr. Eva Ambos, Ethnologin, Universität Tübingen
• Cecil Arndt, Bildungsreferentin* und Empowerment-Trainerin*, projekt.kollektiv (IDA-NRW), Köln
• Ferda Ataman, Publizistin, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, Rassismusforscherin, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, www.verwobenegeschichten.de
• Yemisi Babatola, Empowermentbeauftragte* weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
• Marianne Ballé Moudoumbou, Pan African Women’s Empowerment and Liberation Organisation (PAWLO-Germany)
• Samera Bartsch, Politikwissenschaftlerin und Mediatorin, Berlin
• Dr. Manuela Bauche, Historikerin, Freie Universität Berlin
• Dr. Yener Bayramo lu, Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaftler, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
• Sohal Behmanesh, Organisationsberater*in, Berlin
• Olenka Bordo Benavides, Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Pädagogin, SVK - Selbstverteidigungskurs mit Worten, Berlin
• Karima Benbrahim, Leiterin von Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum für Antirassismusarbeit in NRW (IDA-NRW), Köln
• Dr. Tanu Biswas, Postdoc, Bildungsphilosophie/Pädagogik, Universität Bayreuth
• Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Noah Böhm, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Frauke Boggasch, Künstlerin, Vorstandsmitglied im bbk berlin
• Edna Bonhomme, PhD, Historian and Writer based in Berlin
• Melina Borčak, freie Journalistin und Filmemacherin, Berlin
• Nora Brünger, Kuratorin, Kunstverein Hildesheim
• Ebony Anchelle Bühler, Managing Consultant, Ernst & Young GmbH, Berlin
• Miriam Siré Camara, Organisationsberaterin, akoma coaching & consulting, Berlin
• Dr. des. Halil Can, Politikwissenschaftler, Berlin
• Mariama Ceesay, Studentin/Schulbegleiterin, BLACK COMMUNITY Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense & Initiative Bildung-Macht-Rassismus, Hamburg
• Yasmine Chehata, M.A. Dipl-Soz.Arb., Lehrende und Forschende an der TH Köln
• Sonja Collison, Creative Producer & Diversity Coach, Hamburg
• Nenad Čupić, Trainer, Berater u. Coach, Ne_uN Consulting, Dortmund
• Johanna Dangel, Kulturmanagerin, zusammen leben e.V.
• Anna Barbara Dell, Soziologin, Mitgliedschaft: KulturQuer QuerKultur Rhein-Neckar e.V. und Arbeitskreis Kolonialgeschichte Mannheim
• Ehsan Djafari, Iranische Gemeinde in Deutschland
• Jennifer Drake, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Sami Dzemailovski, Verband für interkulturelle Wohlfahrtspflege Empowerment und Diversity
• Ahmet Edis, Dipl. Medienökonom (FH) und Fachreferent im Paritätischen Jugendwerk NRW, stlv. Vorsitzender des Integrationsrat der Stadt Köln
• David K. Ehlers, Musiker & Musikologe, Universität Hildesheim und Center for Worldmusic
• Meral El, neue deutsche organisationen
• Prof. Fatima El-Tayeb, Literatur und Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
• Petra Fachinger, Ph.D., Department of English Language and Literature, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
• Dr. Abigail Fagan, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Sarah Fartuun Heinze, Theater Games Musik Empowerment
• Leila Fatima, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Kemi Fatoba, Founder, DADDY Magazine, We are DADDY Media, Berlin
• Silvia Fehrmann, Ko-Sprecherin Rat für die Künste
• Yaren Findik, Studierende, BIPoC+ Feminismen* Tübingen
• Gail Finney, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and German, University of California, Davis
• Lena Fließbach, Kuratorin und Autorin
• Anna Geene, Sozialpädagogin, MeG Betreutes Wohnen gGmbH, Berlin
• Olga Gerstenberger, Politikwissenschaftlerin, Alice Salomon Hochschule, Berlin
• Helen Gibson, Doktorandin, Freie Universität Berlin
• Saraya Gomis, u.a. Each One Teach One e.v., Berlin
• Viviane Grünberger, B.A. Deaf Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, W.I.R. - Werdauer Initiative gegen Rassismus e.V.
• Judy Gummich, systemische Coach, Prozessberaterin, Diversity-Trainerin/-Ausbilderin, baobab*concept
• Rita Hajjar, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Tessa Hart, Kulturmacher·in, Berlin
• Golschan Ahmad Haschemi, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Performerin, Bildungsreferentin für intersektionale diskriminierungskritische Bildungs-, Kunst- & Kulturarbeit
• Samira Hassan, Studierende, Referentin für das autonome BIPoC-Referat im AStA der Universität Münster
• Dr. des. Eric Häusler, Historiker, Bern/Tokyo
• Dr. Ruth Herd, Co-ordinator, Mandarin Chinese, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication, Imperial College London, U.K.
• Joseph Hutchinson, Journalist/Lawyer, DADDY Magazine, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Isabelle Ihring, Evangelische Hochschule, Freiburg
• Sham Jaff, Journalistin, whathappenedlastweek.com, Berlin
• Juliana Jobe, Master of Culture and Environment in Africa, Universität zu Köln
• Juliane Juergensohn, Sozialpädagogin, Bremen
• Ian Kaler, Choreograf, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Annita Kalpaka, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg
• Aylin Karabulut, Ph.D Candidate, Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Sandra Karangwa, Referentin und Beraterin, AntiDiskriminierungsBüro Köln / Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V.
• Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, Wissenschaftlerin und Autorin, Berlin
• Jarred Kennedy-Loving, Bildungsreferent, Berlin
• Anne-Isabelle Keßler, Studierende, BIPoC+ Feminismen* Tübingen
• Dunja Khoury, Verband Deutsch-Syrischer Hilfsvereine
• Prof. Kerstin Knopf, Direktorin des Instituts für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien, Universität Bremen
• Bengü Kocatürk-Schuster, Initiative Duisburg 1984, Köln
• Thomas Köck, Autor, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin
• Christian Kopp, Historiker und Ausstellungsmacher, Vorstandsmitglied Berlin Postkolonial
• Veronika Kourabas, Wissenschaftlerin, Universität Bielefeld
• Dr. Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Kuratorin/Autorin, Frankfurt/Main
• Irem Kurt, Designerin und Illustratorin, Teil von Ousa, Berlin
• Şeyda Kurt, freie Journalistin und Autorin, Berlin/Köln
• Dr. Jacob K. Langford, Dozentin & Künstlerin, Berlin
• Dr. Andrew M. Law, Senior Lecturer in Town Planning, Newcastle University, UK
• Prof. Dr. Christiane Leidinger, Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftlerin, Hochschule Düsseldorf
• PD Dr. Claudia Liebelt, Lehrstuhl für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bayreuth
• Tobias Linnemann, Bildungsreferent, Bildungswerkstatt Migration & Gesellschaft
• Dr. Cornelia Lund, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaftlerin, Kuratorin, fluctuating images, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Holger Lund, Kunst- und Designwissenschaftler, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg
• Dr. Martin Lüthe, American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
• Ana-Filipa Maceira, Architektin und Illustratorin, Ousa Collective, Berlin
• Achan Malonda, Sängerin, Moderatorin, Aktivistin, Berlin
• Isabell May, Bildungsreferentin, projekt.kollektiv, Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum für Antirassismusarbeit in NRW (IDA-NRW), Köln
• Julia Mayer
• Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer, American Studies, Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Dorothee Marx, Ph.D Candidate and Lecturer Christan-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Fiona McGovern, Jun.-Prof. für Kuratorische Praxis und Kunstvermittlung, Universität Hildesheim
• Douglas T. McGetchin, Associate Professor, History, Florida Atlantic University
• Prof. Dr. Claus Melter, Fachhochschule Bielefeld und Entschieden gegen Rassismus und Diskriminierung e.V.
• Karl Mertes, Deutsch-Indonesische Gesellschaft e.V., Köln
• Loubna Messaoudi, CEO Founder, BIWOC* Rising, Berlin
• Seggen Mikael, Kulturwissenschaftlerin und -managerin, DisCheck, München
• Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Universität Kassel
• Berivan Moğultay-Tokuş, Referentin und Beraterin, AntiDiskriminierungsBüro Köln / Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V.
• Mamad Mohamad, Landesnetzwerk Migrantenorganisationen in Sachsen-Anhalt (LAMSA)
• Nele Müller, Autorin & Studierende, Referentin für das autonome BIPoC-Referat im AStA der Universität Münster
• Lucía Muriel, Diplompsychologin und Psychotherapeutin, Berlin
• Koku Musebeni, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Dr. Sunny Omwenyeke, Dozent, Universität Bremen
• Tunay Önder, Autorin/Kuratorin, migrantenstadl, München
• Galina Ortmann, Bundesverband interkultureller Frauen (BIFeV)
• Sharon Dodua Otoo, Autorin, Berlin
• Şeyma Özdemir, Projekt Muslima Empowerment Münster
• Necati Öziri, Autor & Kurator, Berlin
• José Manuel Paca, Dachverband der Migrantenorganisationen in Ostdeutschland DaMOst
• Nicolas Pelzer, Künstler, Berlin
• Marissa Petrou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Thelma and Jamie Guilbeau/BORSF Endowed Professor of History, Director of Guilbeau Center for Public History, University of Louisiana Kai S. Pieck, Autor/Regisseur/Initiator Queer Media Society
• Prof. Dr. Andrea Plöger, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad, Genderspezifische Soziale Arbeit, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
• Francesca Sika Dede Puhlmann, freie Referentin und Yoga Lehrerin, Ghana
• Gregory Redmond, USA
• Rebecca Renz, politische Bildungsreferentin, zusammen leben e.V., Freiburg i.Br.
• Sally Riedel, M.A., Vorstandsvorsitzende MOSAIQ e.V., Hamburg
• Lee M. Roberts, Scholar of Asian German Studies, USA
• Aurora Rodonò, Diversity-Managerin/Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln & freie Dozentin/Kuratorin
• Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Regina Röder, Berlin
• Dr. Emilia Zenzile Roig, Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), Berlin
• Sven-Erik Rose, University of California, Davis
• Zhamilya Sakhari, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Autor*in, Berlin
• Mahnas Sarwari, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Claudia Schaefer, Drehbuchautorin, Berlin
• Dr. Monka Schlicher, Historikerin/Politologin zu Südostasien, Köln
• Nils Schliehe, Historiker/Doktorand, Universität Hamburg
• Bozzi Schmidt, Sozialberatung und Bildung, BreSoC e.V. Bremen
• Dr. Kamila Schöll-Mazurek, Polnischer Sozialrat
• Dr. med. Rudolf Schumacher, Arzt, Heidelberg
• Jordan Schwarz, Sozialpädagoge, Freiburg
• Dr. Florian Sedlmeier, Literaturwissenschaftler, Freie Universität Berlin
• Heidi Sill, Bildende Künstlerin
• Maria Vitoria Simião França, Studentin an der Universität zu Köln, Bonn
• Ilka Simon, Koordinatorin, Referentin und Co-Beraterin, AntiDiskriminierungsBüro Köln / Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V.
• Ahmet Sinoplu, Geschäftsführer, Coach e.V. Köln
• Dr. Christian W. Spang, Universitätsprofessor, Tokyo, Japan
• Naomi Standen, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Birmingham, Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford, U.K.
• Susanna Steinbach, Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland
• Dominik Steiner, Künstler, Berlin
• Johann Philipp Strathausen, Software Developer, Berlin
• Tizian Stromp, BIPoC-Gruppe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
• Sam Tabakhtory, Leitung von Zusammenleben Willkommen, Berlin
• Gün Tank, Vorstand BQN Berlin
• Karen Taylor, Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V.
• Diego Oliva Tejeda
• Anja Tuckermann, Autorin, Berlin
• Canan Turan, Filmwissenschaftlerin und Filmemacherin, Berlin
• PD Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck, American and Transpacific American Studies, Universität Augsburg
• Efe Ural, Young Voice,Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland
• Deniz Utlu, Schriftsteller, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Fabian Virchow, Sozialwissenschaftler, Forschungsschwerpunkt Rechtsextremismus, Hochschule Düsseldorf
• Prof. Dr. Constantin Wagner, Professor für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Mainz
• Janine Warning
• Genara Weinmann, Personalreferentin, München
• Melanie Odiri Weinmann
• Sonja Würschnitzer, Rassismuskritische Beraterin, München
• Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Journalist_in & Schriftsteller_in
• May Zeidani Yufanyi, Soziologin, Inssan e.V, Berlin
• Dr. Gökçen Yüksel, Wissenschaftliches Institut des JHW / Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
• Nilima Zaman, Studierende, BIPoC+ Feminismen* Tübingen
• Zara Zandieh, Filmemacher:in & Visuelle Künstler:in, Berlin
• Ünal Zeran, Rechtsanwalt, Hamburg
• Magdalena Zürner

Memento for the German Genocide of the Herero and Nama in Namibia

On 9 July 2015 we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of the German colonial regime in today’s Namibia. It began when on 1 May 1883, by order of the Bremen tobacco merchant Adolf Lüderitz, the bay of Angra Pequena (Lüderitzbucht) and many kilometres of backlands were ‘purchased’ from the Nama people for several hundred pounds and some guns. This territory was quickly extended and a German colonial administration established in the so-called German South-West Africa; the Herero, Nama, San, Damara and Owambo people formed the indigenous population that, according to a racist and hegemonial understanding of cultures, was subjugated and partially forced to work on German farms under slave-like conditions. Apart from the settlement of the country, agriculture and cattle breeding, German interests focused on the appropriation and trade with minerals such as diamonds and copper. The Herero und Nama saw themselves increasingly deprived of their lands by large-scale deceptive German ‘land purchases’ and their existence seriously threatened by unscrupulous ‘trade’ and inhuman colonial policy. In consequence, they rose up against the German colonial regime in 1904 – revolts that were bloodily quelled. Lieutenant general Lothar von Trotha’s objective to completely eliminate the ‘opponent’ lead to a merciless persecution, killing and internment of the survivors, which dehumanized and drastically reduced the Herero and Nama populations. A quote from von Trotha’s proclamation of elimination on behalf of the German Emperor of 2 October 1904 shows the genocidal intention of the German military: “The Herero people, however, must leave the country. If not, I will force them with the Groot Rohr. Within the German borders every Herero with or without a gun, with or without cattle will be shot dead. I will not take in any women and children anymore and will force them to go back to their people, or order to shoot them“. Hence, the imperial ‘protection force’ committed genocide against the Herero and later the Nama.

The INPUTS fully supports the petitions of the alliance “Völkermord verjährt nicht! [Genocide is not time-barred!]” and of the genocide-namibia.net “Völkermord ist Völkermord! [Genocide is genocide!]“, who request that on 9 July 2015 the Federal President, the German Parliament and the Federal Government acknowledge the genocide of the Herero and Nama, ask for an official apology, further the repatriation of appropriated human remains to Namibia and hold an unconditional and open dialogue about reconciliation measures with the descendants of genocide victims and the Namibian government. Only in this way, and with respective integration of these themes into school and university curricula, can Germany start reappraising its colonial history in Africa.

Guest commentary by Kerstin Knopf (Weser Kurier, 9 July 2015)

On black studies at Bremen

INPUTS in Focus

Due to the latest debates in the media and internet on structural racism within German universities, INPUTS feels prompted to once again affirm and further reflect upon its objectives, tasks and premises. First of all, we would like to say that we absolutely understand criticism of any kind of institutional, epistemic or structural racism and fully support it.

INPUTS shares the criticism of an insufficient diversity of professors and students at German universities which, unfortunately, can also be noted in Postcolonial Studies. We will do our best to improve this situation. We feel committed to continue the longstanding work in the fields of the Bremen American/Romance/Black and Critical Whiteness Studies among others, which have contributed to a better perception of Postcolonial Studies at German universities and particularly in Bremen, thus anchoring them as a research field. Our next aim will be the development of specific study curricula. Thus we hope to increase the attractiveness of the University of Bremen also for people of colour, migrants, black students and university teachers.

INPUTS is an open transdisciplinary university institute in which academics ranging from PhD students to professors particularly from the fields of Linguistic and Literary Studies (German/Romance Studies, English-Speaking Cultures) of the University of Bremen have joined forces in order to research together and advance Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies within the German university landscape. Unlike large (non-)university research institutes, INPUTS, as an open association of researchers, is neither provided with any regulated financial resources, staff, or research positions, nor does it have political clout within the university. We perform our activities with a minimal budget and additionally raised funds. All researchers in our group actively commit themselves to increasing the perception and publicity of Postcolonial and Transcultural Research in the Scientific Community and beyond. At this point, we would like to clarify that the international academic association CAAR (The Collegium for African American Research) mentioned in the media and the local Bremen institute INPUTS (Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies) are two completely different research networks.

INPUTS is committed to investigating the traces and effects of colonial history and agency in all fields of knowledge and daily life. Furthermore, we consider the circulation of non-Western knowledge and postcolonial criticism as an important task of our group. Another objective of INPUTS research is the critical interrogation of Eurocentric epistemological hegemony and claim to universality, particularly of the European enlightenment from the 18th century onwards to its ramifications and forms of reception well into the postmodern age. We study colonial and postcolonial as well as traditional and current transcultural and transnational practices, artefacts and discourses, which are not always to be understood as effects of Western colonial history, e.g. multilingual literatures and media, translation practices, refugee narratives or non-European philosophies. Here, the members of INPUTS support a multi-perspective critique of power and the represented social relations and their historical and epistemological frameworks.

The academic research fields and topics – also from Postcolonial Studies – should, in our view, be available to all researchers regardless of religious, ethnic, national or other specific affiliations and with respect towards specific experience that is not shared by all people. The researchers are invited to self-critical reflection of their position and their perspective according to ethical standards in recent Postcolonial and Cultural Studies as well as the Humanities. In our understanding, an exclusion of certain researchers must not take place. In connection with the public debate, INPUTS regrets the resignation of Sabine Broeck, our long-time director of outstanding merit, and refuses all improper attacks against her person or the institute. Her expertise, her commitment and her integrity that distinguish her as human being and academic are entirely beyond doubt to us. Sabine Broeck’s different statements regarding the debate can be accessed here:

• Offener Brief der Forschungsgruppe Black Knowledges (FBK), 21. Juli 2014 
• Mission Statement FBK, Juli 2014
• Community Statement: “Black” Studies at the University of Bremen, Januar 2015 (deutsch)
• Community Statement: “Black” Studies at the University of Bremen, Januar 2015 (english)
• Auflösung der Forschungsgruppe Black Knowledges / Disbanding Black Knowledges Research Group, 8. Feb. 2015
• ResponseToComStatement_Feb2015, Sabine Broeck
• February 2015 critique of how Black Studies has been mobilized at University of Bremen, and of my person

INPUTS pleads for academic research at eye level with producers of knowledge in and beyond the institutionalised academic systems. This also includes an open exchange with all researchers and culturally active individuals and groups, who are, for example, engaged in creative or alternative forms of knowledge production (dossier). Moreover, INPUTS invites all interested people within and beyond the German university system to get into contact and cooperate with us.