Making comics and animations about friendship, collectivism, joy, romance, anger and rest, and designing for print publications and exhibitions, often working with archives, zines and conversations.
aziza0ahmad [@] gmail.com
Making comics and animations about friendship, collectivism, joy, romance, anger and rest, and designing for print publications and exhibitions, often working with archives, zines and conversations.
aziza0ahmad [@] gmail.com
Liberation is Self-Organization
A4, 36 pages, copyshop print on yellow 90 gsm paper
This zine was produced as part of an exhibition organised by artists Suza Husse and Aziza Ahmad in collaboration with archivist Sarah Wangari from Women* in Exile. The exhibition collected oral histories, documentation of organizing and protest, banners and ephemera from the many years of refugee women and queers & their friends coming together and raising their voices for self-empowerment, for fighting against racism, borders and the Lager system, and for creating change for everyone. With a queer*feminist and intersectional focus, the exhibition activated the living archive of Women in Exile & Friends through conversations with refugee and migrant women, dykes, queers, trans, inter, and non-binary folks on borderland and border regime experiences, queer realities and struggles within the refugee movement, empowerment, resistance and self-organization.
The Liberation is Self-Organization zine published new and old images, speeches, oral histories and conversations from and with Women* in Exile to highlight their resistance work against the many systemic forms of physical, financial and social restrictions that refugees face in Germany.