aequa, ExerzierStr. 13, Berlin (2026)

19/05/2026

“What if you knew—in your bones, not just in your mind—that major social and ecological collapse is on the horizon? That sooner or later much of what we take for granted will no longer be viable, primarily because we have crossed at least six of the nine planetary boundaries currently identified? How would you respond if you could stay with this knowledge?”

Welp, that’s exactly what host and guest xin got into in the 46th episode of aequa Radio, recorded live March 18th in the studio. Over the course of the two-hour show, we managed to squeeze in processing our ❤️‍🔥 heartblowing ❤️‍🔥 encounter with the book Hospicing Modernity, by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and its sequel, Outgrowing Modernity, quoted above. (Both published by )

📻 A few surfaces we scratch in this too-short-to-do-these-books-justice episode:
‣ what is meant by the framing modernity-coloniality?
‣ what are the roots of this ontology? what myth is this way of being is based on?
‣ the alienation that can come with facing these bone-knowings about collapse
‣ xin’s take on “hospicing dance music” as expressed in part through their 2025 album, WASTED, on .files
‣ embracing complexity and dissensus, expanding our ways of being/knowing/learning
‣ embracing being “cute and pathetic”
‣ composting our s**t 💩
and more 😉

If you dare to tune in, be sure buckle up: all the passengers of your bus are already on a the bumpy ride! 🚌 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ 💨

Music from .junoo and more — link to buy the tunes in the usual spot 🎧

Disgruntled partygoer meme and C+P sticker both by xin.

Tune in tomorrow, Wednesday 20.05, 14:00-16:00 for the next episode of aequa Radio on Refuge Worldwide.

04/05/2026

“The future of political freedom is on trial in North Texas.”

For Radio episode #47, we heard from Elisabet Westby, one of the many organizers supporting the Prairieland Defendants — a group of people arrested and unjustly tried as terrorists in North Texas for having organized a standard-issue noise demonstration against ICE, outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas last July. Head to to find the link to their support campaign.

Since their arrests last July — some were not even at the demo — all but one of the defendants have been “held on multi-million dollar bails and enduring horrific conditions. The accusations of the government are absurd, and the police response has been extreme, making it obvious that this is part of an effort to criminalize dissent along with the other high profile cases in Spokane, Portland, and Illinois. It has repeatedly been used by the Trump administration and its allies as an example of violence by ‘antifa’.” (quoting their website)

In a federal trial held in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas in March, 8 defendants were found guilty of counts including riot, providing material support to t3rr0r1sts, use of explosives and more.

Thank you to Elisabet for taking the time to share about the defendants and their experiences, abuses of power by the trial judge, propaganda being sowed by the state, and why the fate of the Prairieland Defendants should concern anyone wanting to raise their voices or push back against the current administration of the so-called U.S.

Of course we can draw direct tactical parallels to the treatment of political prisoners whose trial began last week here in Germany — im their case being denied basic rights and fair treatment for daring to resist genocide.

Wherever you are, if you are not on the front lines of resisting these murderous regimes, please do what you can to support those who are there and their families and loved ones. If you can’t donate, letters are a great way to support, and both groups have instructions for how to write the defendants letters of support on their websites.

21/03/2026

⏰ Final call! Apply by Monday, March 23rd!

🫀 Countercultures of Care is a 10-month practice community for group facilitators, educators, supervisors and others who operate in roles in which politicized facilitation is needed. It will be a space to both deepen our capacities and share mutual support. Includes monthly 2-hour group session, plus two 1:1 coaching sessions with during the programme period. Staring March 25th, runs through December, summer break in August.

“We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion. We believe in the need to foster a counterculture of care — a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid disasters daily and acute.”
- Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, “Let This Radicalize You”

This is for you if...
🐚 you’re often negotiating needs, preferences and opinions between different people in collective settings.
🐚 you use (or want to use) facilitation as a liberatory practice, in work that aims to move us all closer to collective liberation.
🐚 you believe we must cultivate communities rooted in care to transform violent systems.

Some themes we’ll explore together:
🌱 power-critical facilitation
🌱 trauma-responsive practices
🌱 embodiment and somatics
🌱 group decision-making (consensus etc.)
🌱 designing for collaboration and participation
🌱 meaning-making and the power of outliers
🌱 facilitated peer-support sessions to work on our toughest case studies
🌱 practice-and-feedback session

What you can expect:
🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness
🏴‍☠️ Politicized facilitation that strives to be consent-based, trauma-responsive, power- and difference-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :)
🪷 Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few.
🧮 Sliding scale pricing. Unfortunately all the free/soli spots are taken for this round. Very open to barter proposals!

14/03/2026

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, from her book Gathering Moss

🧭 Personal Compass is a four-month practice community for a small, committed cohort to move from “What do I care about?” to the first steps of putting those values into practice in a sustainable way, explored in a temporary community of care.

This fresh-for-2026-realities redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture series is starting in just two weeks!

Some questions we’ll explore:
❓ What are my personal ethics and intentions?
❓ How do I currently spend my precious life energy, and how might I want to shift that?
❓ Which movements for change are calling me, and how might I show up for them sustainably?
❓ What are my gifts? What capacities do I want and need to grow to bring those gift to bear for myself and my communities? What’s a regenerative plan to put all these dreams into action?

This is for you if...
🫀 You can feel the acceleration of collapse of the world as we know it, and you’re feeling scared, tired, or overwhelmed as a result. ...you care deeply about creating a better world, but are struggling to put that love into action in a consistent way.
🫀 You fear burnout or have experienced it while trying to live your values.
🫀 You’re open to connecting with likeminded cuties in a closely-held peer-support practice space.

What you can expect:
🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness in equal measure
🌱 Facilitation that is politicized, consent-based, trauma-responsive, class-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :)
⭐️ Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few.
🏴‍☠️ A guided path from squishy “whys” through to an action plan

Deadline to apply March 19th!

11/03/2026

“We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion. We believe in the need to foster a counterculture of care — a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid disasters daily and acute.”
- & Mariame Kaba, “Let This Radicalize You”

🫀 Countercultures of Care is a 10-month practice community for group facilitators, educators, supervisors and others who operate in roles in which politicized facilitation is needed. It will be a space to both deepen our capacities and share mutual support. Includes monthly 2-hour group session, plus two 1:1 coaching sesions with during the programme period. Staring March 25th, runs through December, summer break in August.

This is for you if...
🐚...you’re often negotiating needs, preferences and opinions between different people in collective settings.
🐚...you use (or want to use) facilitation as a liberatory practice, in work that aims to move us all closer to collective liberation.
🐚...you believe we must cultivate communities rooted in care to transform violent systems.

Some themes we’ll explore together:
🌱 power-critical facilitation
🌱 trauma-responsive practices
🌱 embodiment and somatics
🌱 group decision-making (consensus etc.)
🌱 designing for collaboration and participation
🌱 meaning-making and the power of outliers
🌱 facilitated peer-support sessions to work on our toughest case studies
🌱 practice-and-feedback session

What you can expect:
🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness
🏴‍☠️ Politicized facilitation that strives to be consent-based, trauma-responsive, power- and difference-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :)
🪷 Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few.

🧮 Sliding scale with some free spots avail.
⏰ Apply by March 23rd!

08/03/2026

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
- , from her book Gathering Moss

🧭 Personal Compass is a four-month practice community for a small, committed cohort to move from “What do I care about?” to the next steps of putting those values into practice in a sustainable way, explored in a temporary community of care.

This fresh-for-2026-realities redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture series is starting in just two weeks, on March 22nd!

Some questions we’ll explore:
❓ What are my personal ethics and intentions?
❓ How do I currently spend my precious life energy, and how might I want to shift that?
❓ Which movements for change are calling me, and how might I show up for them sustainably?
❓ What are my gifts? What capacities do I want and need to grow to bring those gift to bear for myself and my communities? What’s a regenerative plan to put all these dreams into action?

This is for you if...
🫀 You can feel the acceleration of collapse of the world as we know it, and you’re feeling scared, tired, or overwhelmed as a result.
🫀you care deeply about creating a better world, but are struggling to put that love into action in a consistent way.
🫀 You fear burnout or have experienced it while trying to live your values.
🫀 You’re open to connecting with likeminded cuties in a closely-held peer-support practice space.

What you can expect:
🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness in equal measure
🌱 Facilitation that is politicized, consent-based, trauma-responsive, class-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :)
⭐️ Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few.
🏴‍☠️ A guided path from squishy “whys” through to an action plan

Deadline to apply March 19th!

25/02/2026

Online info sessions on 📆 Monday, March 2nd, 18:30 and 19:30 CET for two new community learning-and-action series that start in March.

You can join both, or just log in for the info session that is most relevant for you. will be hanging out in the same zoom link with a small break between sessions.

18:30 CET 🧭 Personal Compass (online, starts March 22)
a redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture community learning series, this fresh-for-2026 realities is a four-month practice community about orienting our lives towards what we really care about and the worlds we are longing for

19:30 CET 🫀Countercultures of Care (online, starts March 25)
the goal is to assemble a small and committed cohort of facilitators, would-be facilitators and those who work in collective contexts — all of whom want to deepen and sharpen their facilitation knowledge and skills in service of collective liberation

Hope to see you there! Leeenk in the usual spot. ➡️

1️⃣ image shows folks on a zoom call gallery grid, holding up scribbly illustrations that cover their faces. in the top row giving instructions in a white hat and black hoodie.
2️⃣ image shows a circlular sign on top of a triangular one, against a sunsetting sky with port city horizon at the bottom. text info for Personal Compass
3️⃣ image shows a housing row seen through colored glass window panes, with a sprightly plant in forground of bottom right corner. text info for Countercultures of Care

16/02/2026

Burnout and collective organizing too often go hand-in-hand. What practices can we call into our collective work to help us distribute labor and care based on the variable and varying needs and capacities within our group, and stay connected to our intentions and ethics even when times get tough(er)?

📆 This Sunday, February 22nd, e.V. in Neukölln 📆

In this conversation-based interactive workshop, we will explore together tools, strategies and frameworks for working together more sustainably, ongoingly. In this context, the word “sustainable” is connected to ideas of being embodied, strategic, grounded-in-lineage, collapse-aware, compassionate and planning for the long fight.

We will see what emerges in conversation based on lived experiences in the room, and will also share a collection of better practices from their own experience working in and with collectives through their Collective Compass facilitation work. The conversation will be facilitated in English, and we can explore whisper translation options once we see the needs and offers available in the room.

This workshop is for anyone who works, lives or organizes in collective structures, especially within political movement or cultural contexts. (Or for people who want to work in collective structures, but don’t know how to start.) Fundamentally, it’s for folks who believe another world is possible, and are doing what they can in their contexts to bring that world into being — both on a systemic level, and also in our interpersonal relationships.

Registration 🔗 in the place it goes. Sliding scale with some free spots still avail.

📸 ℹ️ wind-blown grassy prairie with a river and sunset in the far back. on top is white text, a sketch of a moon and some stars, and the description text for the event (included above)

27/01/2026

The February 2026 episode of aequa Radio on featured , discussing community as resistance for those organizing in solidarity with Abya Yala* here in Germany.

SoliSur is a a self-organized internationalist, anticolonial, transfeminist migrant group from Abya Yala and the diaspora. Members and .lou.kir joined us live in the Refuge studio to share about how the collective are building community, organizing workshops, and taking direct action in the struggle against the advance of the right-wing and the criminalization of migration in Abya Yala and Germany, as well as anti-extractivist struggles and their colonial relationship.

They also brought along an absolutely banging musical selection, complete with with the liberation histories these musics sit within. Don’t miss it!

Find the archive of the show in the usual spot ➡️

*one indigenous name for so-called Latin America

📻 DON’T JUST LISTEN — GET INVOLVED! 📻

📲 FOLLOW and support their work.
📣 GET LOUD at upcoming solidarity demonstrations in your area.
💚 SUPPORT the people most impacted in your communities.
💿 BUY MUSIC from the artists featured on the show. Tracklists linked in the usual spot.

ℹ️ image shows a light purple frame with the show info in black text (“aequa Radio with SoliSur, with Sarj, Wed 21 Jan, 14:00-16:00 CET refugeworldwide.com”). The featured image in the middle shows a red flag with the image “América Invertida” by Joaquín Torres García, which depicts an illustrated map of so-called “South America” that is turned upside down from the standard depiction, putting the south of the continent on the top of the map, framed by a sun, moon and stars. The image also shows the SoliSur logo: the name as text with a q***r flag superimposed beneath.

26/08/2025

Saturday is our final event hosted in our time stewarding two different spaces on Exerzierstraße.

Come through for some cute, sentimental and sweet times — remembering and honoring what we have cultivated together here through some incredibly challenging years, and preparing the proverbial soil of the space for new stewards to come in and do amazing things on this ground!

Here’s a sneak preview of the happenings planned for the evening!

🚪 16:30 — door opens

🪄 ✨ 17:00-18:30 — Gratitude and Transmutation Ritual ✨
A moment to honor our grief and gratitude, and joy that the story will continue! For the sentimental and spiritual amongst us. :)

🥗 18:30-20:30 — Potluck dinner 🥗
Bring a dish or some snacks to share if you can. (And if you can’t, just come eat with community!)

🖼 20:30 — Art Raffle Drawing, Storytelling and Slideshow 🖼
For a small donation per entry, we’ll be raffling off some of the artwork from our Open House as well as original illustration pieces that were created custom for the aequa Community Centre during lockdown in 2021.

Afterwards, will share some favorite memories and visual bits from the last years of stewarding these two spaces, and we will also offer the mic openly in case anyone would like to share as well.

🎉 Afterwards — Music, hangs, sweet times 🎉

✂️🎨 Quiet Room 🎨✂️
As usual, the back room will be more of a decompression space with some crafting supplies and the prompt to participate in co-creating a zine to capture some of the lessons learned during our time co-creating these spaces the last years. Please excuse yourself at any time to go and spend some time here, or spend the whole night there!

😷 Covid safety — Everyone should test negative before entering 😷 Tests and masks available on-site for donation!

💜 Helpers for door and setup needed - dm if you can help out! 💜

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