A-Infos (en) Germany, Open Call! - Anarchist Perspectives on Community by agdortmund (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The deadline for this open call is 11:59 PM on November 28, 2025. ---- 
Open call for illustrations, linocuts, poems, essays, texts, cartoons, 
short stories. ---- Community is the utopia of the individualistic 21st 
century in Central Europe and the US. The concept is charged with 
wonderful ideas such as: chosen family, security, mutual aid, common 
identity, shared support, and care. It is the warm, bright, and pure 
place we all yearn for. It is the place where we can finally arrive and 
be ourselves.

The reality of lived community/community is usually drastically 
different. Apart from internet portals, forums, or accounts that give 
individuals a sense of belonging, there isn't much community. Instead, 
most people face isolation. When people do come together in groups, 
social violence takes hold relatively quickly, whether it's in shared 
flats, shared apartments, or small families. Community, therefore, 
appears like a sharp sword. Do we injure ourselves, or is it the 
solution to the Gordian knot that shackles us?

We have the following thematic suggestions for a direction. Want to go 
in a different direction? We'd be happy to hear it!

Why do we need (more) community?
What are the problems and frustrations we've encountered in our search 
for community?
How does our personal positioning influence our relationship to 
community(s)?
What might an anarchist critique of community or individuality look like?
How do conflicts and conflict resolution work in communities?
What are the boundaries of communities?
What are the characteristics of digital and analog communities?
What are the expectations of communities and of communities?
How do community and society interact?
How do we deal with enforced communities?
We welcome your approach to the topic in a variety of ways. Political 
texts, short stories, poems, collages, paintings or illustrations, 
comics, or any other form of art or text are welcome. We would be 
especially pleased if we had the honor of hosting your first 
publication. Overall, we aim to create low-threshold access to the 
topic. We look forward to your contribution.

If you find it difficult to motivate yourself to write a text on your 
own, you are welcome to register for the joint writing workshop. We will 
be organizing this on November 29, 2025, in Dortmund. Register at 
agdo@riseup.net. There will also be an open preliminary discussion on 
November 6, 2025, at 6 p.m. for the writing workshop.

We plan to publish the contributions digitally and in print in a 
brochure, which we will print using a Risograph.

Terms
Who can submit something?

All people of all abilities
You should identify as an anarchist or sympathize with anarchy
Especially if this is your first time
Post Details
Please submit your post as Creative Commons - if you don't want to, 
please mark it accordingly.
Texts up to 1,000 words (short stories up to 2,000 words)
Images should also work in black and white.
We reserve the right not to print posts.
Submissions
Send your post in .doc or .odt format - images with 300 dpi as .jpg to 
agdo@riseup.net
Submission by 11:59 PM on November 28, 2025.
Include an author name and, if you wish, a contact name that will be 
included.
The post should be created by you or you all.

https://fda-ifa.org/open-call-anarchistische-perspektiven-auf-gemeinschaft/
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