Cristina is bending over a table to organize freshly printed bright pink pages of the "Trans* Feminist Counter Cloud Action FAQ” zine. The cover text of the zine is in red ink, and visible from the two copies that are folded on the table. A flamboyant love letter to trans*feminist life and flourishing beyond the cloud, it draws you in and makes no apologies. Cassandra is taking the picture at Critical Media Lab in Basel, and helping to fold copies with the spoon that is just barely visible in the image at the bottom lefthand corner, to bring to the gathering in Grenoble, France hosted by STopMicro Collective. It’s late in the evening, and Cristina is preparing to take the night train back to Rotterdam and bring copies with her, there’s an assortment of snacks and drinks outside the shot. Lit with strong fluorescent lighting, behind Cristina is a large O-shaped pillow (made by MA Transversal Design graduate Nani) on a steel utilitarian bookshelf, one letter that helps to spell out "ABOLITION" when they all come together. The pink face of the pillow matches the pink of the page, as they reverberate in conversation. Pleasurable in pink, terrycloth plush of the stuffed letter absorbing light and color that bounces off the clean white wall into the neon green fabric that holds the two sides of the O together. All the letters are meant to be used, but they’re delicate as well, sewed by hand. They bring us back to a different form of clouding, of being grounded in careful attention to the daily work of abolition. Your head can rest on a cloud beyond the cloud, while your feet remain firmly on the ground. (Insert or link to image of sticker made by Femke). The other letters are mostly gathered in the front of the office in a space of couches and chairs meant for conversation, reading or lounging. A playful, rejuvenating reminder of the everyday practices we embody, what bolsters or support us, and the places and ways we make collective life outside of the private home. The spaces we make for life and comfort in sites where we’re told we should not. We insist upon it regardless.
Cristina is bending over a table to organize freshly printed bright pink pages of the "Trans* Feminist Counter Cloud Action FAQ” zine. The cover text of the zine is in red ink, and visible from the two copies that are folded on the table. A flamboyant love letter to trans*feminist life and flourishing beyond the cloud, it draws you in and makes no apologies.

Infrastructural Rehearsals Library

A growing collection of zines, pamphlets and other materials gathered by the Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective.

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