The Funambulist is a bilingual print and online magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies.

From 2015 onwards, the magazine has operated at the crossroads of architecture, academia, and activism by formulating spatial approaches to anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles around the world.

How does the city concretize settler colonialism from Jerusalem to Johannesburg? What do the Indigenous uprisings and the Black Liberation movement teach us about gender? Which stories do barricades, jazz, and spoons tell us about other possible futures?

We register our political utility in slowness: articulating informed perspectives on struggles, instead of reacting to news cycles. With each issue, our aim is to develop ideas, visuals, and maps in service of these fights to expand our shared political imaginaries.

By examining the networks of relations we inhabit, the magazine acts as a platform to nourish internationalist solidarities that learn with each other. We consider each geography to be a knowledge-production center, from which we are invited to think and imagine with a pluriverse of voices.

We are firmly attached to our publishing model, which is 90% funded by our subscribers and our readers. We negotiate our economic sustainability with the belief that knowledge should not be kept behind paywalls. As such, we have been committed to placing each out-of-print issue in open-access (around 80% of our issues).

The print and online magazine is published every two months in both English and French. It can be ordered on this website or through our partner bookstores. And if you enjoy our work and want to support us, you can subscribe on a monthly or yearly basis.

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Contact

– For general inquiries and subscriptions, email us here.
– For inquiries regarding press, sales and advertising, email us here.
– We commission directly our authors, but if you’d like us to know your work, you can contact us here (please just bear in mind we cannot promise to answer, but we definitely promise to read your email).
– We receive many internship queries and take seriously the duty to train the few interns we welcome at the office, in Paris. Please note that as of now, we require applicant interns to be able to do some work in at least two of the following languages (English, French, Spanish). You can email us your query here.