Welcome to the 62nd issue of The Funambulist, the last one of 2025. Building Trans Communities is an invitation to approach trans identities and political struggles around the world through two angles: their collective dimension and their forever escape from clear-cut definitions, in particular those emerging from the West. Contributions includes reflections about/from Colombia (La Liga de Salud Trans), colonized Casablanca and Cairo (Beshouy Botros), Britain (Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha), India (Shripad Sinnakaar), newly independent Malaysia (Hoo Fan Chon and William Tham), Mexico (Mikaelah Drullard), and the US (Dean Spade and Ohan Breiding)

You can also read Léopold Lambert’s full introduction to the issue here.

In the News from the Fronts section, you can read three texts about the history of Brazilian formerly enslaved people who returned to Benin and Nigeria (Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber), the long Sicilian resistance against capitalism and militarism (Giuseppe Procida), and the misappropriation of Indigenous symbols, in particular the whipala, by the Bolivian state (Magali Vienca Copa Pabón).

We also inaugurate a new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We are honored to begin with a text by Fusako Shigenobu.

If you prefer reading it in French, you can also order the francophone version.