Nzitu Mawakha’s Daima: Images of Women of Colour in Germany

Photographs and first-person texts bring Black women living and working in Germany into a collective portrait. Nzitu Mawakha’s black-and-white images show individuals, friendships, and community, while the women’s words return the gaze to the reader.

Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out

History, poetry, interviews, and personal testimony meet in Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, the English translation of Farbe bekennen. The collection places Black women’s voices at the center of German history and

Fatima El-Tayeb’s European Others: Belonging from Below

In European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, Fatima El-Tayeb examines how racialized communities challenge narrow ideas of who belongs in Europe. Music, performance, activism, gender, and sexuality become routes