This diverse collection of essays by BIPOC practitioners is intended as an invitation to reflect and feel our way toward alternative approaches to how transformative collective power can emerge within the German context. What role do the body and emotions play in emancipatory movements in times of multiple crises? What does a holistic perspective on social conditions, resistance, and collective visions mean? How are individual transformation and collective, deeply systemic change connected? This small collection contains experiences and insights that have emerged from relationships within community and with the self. Questions are raised, observations shared, visions spun, and wishes expressed.
Project Information
- Developed as part of the Cooperation Network against Racism
- Project duration: since January 2025
- Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Beiträge
- Aki Krishnamurthy: Why feel in times like these?
- Aïsha Konaté: Re-membering the Body (text in English)
- amaeze: Rhythm as a collective practice
- Kuem & Jaya Chakravarti: The body Is like a frequency that makes me curious…
- Jarred Kennedy-Loving & Sebastian Fleary: On feeling and being
- Katja Kinder: Embodying, connecting, transforming
- Natascha Nassir-Shahnian & Niuscha Ramzani: Building trust
- Yili Rojas: Coming back to the body (text in English)
- Clementine Ewokolo Burnley & Jaya Chakravarti: Moving together: How we practice somatics in a collective (text in English)
- Miki Welde: “If I can feel it, I am living it” – Why It makes sense to consider empowerment, Hip-Hop, and embodied social justice practices together
- Rafia Shahnaz: We carry the land in our bones - Somatic pathways through racism, memory, and belonging (text in English)
Suggested Citation
Krishnamurthy, A. (Hrsg.). (2026). *Wir brauchen einen langen Atem. Embodied Visions für kollektive Transformation. *Zentrum für Data-driven Empowerment, Leadership und Advocacy (zedela).
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