We are thrilled to announce that The Fruit Basket (TFB) has been nominated for the South African award Thami Dish Foundation Feather Award for Role Model of the Year.TFB is an organization founded and headed by activist Thomars Shamuyarira, a forced migrant, transgender man from Zimbabwe, who is currently a research collaborator to PhD candidate Miriam Ocadiz. 
With our research project ‘Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change’, we are committed to building a community of people who dedicate their academic, professional and/or personal lives to engaged scholarship. To keep you up-to-date about the latest developments within the project, we have started this series of newsletters.
Alaaddin fled to the Netherlands from Syria in 2015. In Syria, they obtained diplomas in psychology and communication and worked on creative practices with refugees in the Syrian Red Cross in 2014/2015, for which they received multiple trainings.
With our research project ‘Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change’, we are committed to building a community of people who dedicate their academic, professional and/or personal lives to engaged scholarship. To keep you up-to-date about the latest developments within the project, we have started this series of newsletters.
By Busi Ntsele
The field visit to Meraka Cultural Village reignited my passion for advocacy and transformation. When we arrived at Meraka, with our music playing from a small speaker connected to the phone, Mme Sebabatso came out in full smiles, moving to the beat, and teaching us how dance looked in the golden old days.
In issue #4 of Errant Journal, Fabian Holle wrote an article about creative co-creation. In the article, Fabian tells about their own personal journey and creative workshops in the LIMBO and their challenges in enabling and obstructing flow through creative co-creation. A full version of the paper in PDF.
For the last issue (#62) of FOAM Magazine, Fabian Holle and Alaa Ammar co-wrote a paper on building and holding safe(r) spaces. In their paper, they write more about co-organizing and co-creating LIMBO, and the different challenges and opportunities that arose in the process. A full version of the paper can be found here.
Join us for an evening of queer stories and interactions during the Queer Poetry Night at Framer Framed on the 6th of August. In commemoration of Pride, Unwanted Words and LIMBO present a stage for community engagement and a safer space for queer expression.
Since 2015, the study of refugee inclusion has become a booming business. However, research and policies are still quite disconnected from refugees’ lives. Reflective infrastructures can help refugees, other societal actors, and researchers collaborate on knowledge co-creation projects that address refugees’ and migrants’ real-life challenges and question taken-for-granted assumptions. Spaces like this, which include various perspectives, are essential to enable the reflexivity necessary to rethink policy and research to make a real difference.
