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In Äthiopien wurden im vergangenen halben Jahrhundert schon zweimal immense Hoffnungen erst geweckt und dann enttäuscht. Mit Abiy Ahmed soll der Wandel nun gelingen. Doch er ist im Land nicht unumstritten. (APuZ)

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"Sitting. With a Candle? Up My Ass!" explores the archive of the Bay Area photographer David Greene, focusing firstly on Shameless (1974), a series of portraits of transgender people, queers, and people in drag, often posed candidly in domestic and other domestic settings. It zooms into Greene's work to draw out the story of the forgotten genderfuck poet and activist Harmodius in Exile—Greene's lover and peer—posing archival research as an access point to concealed or "minor" histories of lesbian, gay, and transgender life in San Francisco in the 1970s. In my analysis, Harmodius's strategic maximalism—captured so evocatively in Greene's portraits and evoked in Harmodius's own poetry (cited in the title)—is both a political tool and a technique of whimsy, a gesture of serious play that stages the poet's commitment to aesthetic, political, and corporeal self-fashioning.

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In this excerpt of an interview held in 2013, artist Tobaron Waxman discusses their artwork and its relationship to the politics and limits of transgender representation. Rather than relying on the body as the sign of trans, Waxman's recent performance work explores ways to evoke transformation, boundaries, and negotiations of power through a focus on gesture, movement, and the voice as a site of regulation and its resistance. This work also engages with the politics of nationalism and ethnicity, which Waxman sets in relation to other policing and transgressing of borders.

The future of Europe's special relationship with Africa is at risk as former colonies react to blasé, if not hypocritcal, European attitude toward the continent. European-style institutions could enter a profound crisis of legitimacy if things do not change soon. (DGAP-IP)