florence freitag ~ snow

💧 introducing a wave a(r)mour a snake turned dinosaur turned river 🐍🦖🌊 eine gerade Linie verläuft von A nach B eine gerade Linie hat keine Kurven eine gerade Linie ist stark gerade jetzt gerade jetzt macht das überhaupt keinen Sinn Hat sich jemand schonmal eine gerade Linie unterm Mikroskop angeschaut? Sie besteht aus unendlich vielen Punkten (geordnetes Chaos), welche quasi nichts anderes als Kreise sind und dementsprechend Kurven. Die gerade Linie meiner Armspannbreite beträgt jetzt 1,70. so groß “sollte” ich gerade eigentlich sein. aber nach welchem Normbuch? ich komme jetzt gerade nur auf 1,63. die Vorstellung der Größe ist verwirrend und macht doch irgendwie Sinn, denn meine Arme reichen heraus wie die wehenden Zweige einer Trauerweide, in Streckung zur nassen Seeoberfläche. Gestern sprach Mimi über Bäume, und wie sie niemals gerade wachsen, sondern sich den äußeren Einflüssen anpassen. Dort fließt das Wasser, dort wachse ich hin... Hier stört mich der Asphalt, dann strecke ich meine Wurzeln drumherum aus und schwinge den Stamm um die Ecke... Gerade gibt es nicht. Straightness does not exist. bzw. Wie wachsen wir wie Bäume? How do we grow like trees? Er spricht zu mir, mein gewundener Stamm: Jetzt, gerade berührt meine rechte Schulter die Bank, sanft schiebe ich sie ein, kippe das Becken, drehe die Rippen atme in die Brust Atme Atme Atme Atme Atme Atme Atme Atme Atme und Aus und aus uns hinaus, hinauf, nach oben strebend zur Baumkrone ~ als wenn ich noch nie zuvor geatmet hätte als wenn ich ohne Luft gelebt hätte und doch stehe ich hier jetzt gerade und morgen auch. Sauerstoff rein (vom Baum) Kohlenstoffdioxid raus (zum Baum) Wenn Bäume zum Licht atmen ~ wo ist dann mein Licht? Wenn Bäume zum Wasser wachsen ~ wo ist dann mein Wasser? I have spent the last three weeks on a rehabilitation for spinal deformations, in medical terms known as a chronic disease called scoliosis. scolio means “a bending” bending of bones, matter, form, maybe even of time? what are those bones moving away from? where to? could i read my side curvatures of 60°56° like coordinates? where do they want me to go ? —>read the full text in slides

✨ Re-Introducing my radio show, cause this personal ritual has brought me so much support & joy in the midst of uncertainty recently. rituals for the not~yet or How do we grow like trees? 🌳 WHEN/WHERE: live streamed on fr-bb.org every 4th Tuesday of the month Inspired by a conversation between Bayo Akomolafe, Resmaa Menakem and Orland Bishop in 2024 your host wonders about rituals and their need for a time that is not-yet and also already right here. The show invites guests to talk about their rituals and routines for personal and collective change and by that casts a spell together. We will also invite a whole lot of tree wisdom to ground, nourish and show us how there’s not just one way to grow. Es geht ums Wurzeln schlagen im Ungewissen, um kollektive An-Spannung und darum, wie Poesie uns gegen den Faschismus unterstützt (aka this show also is about poetry as ritual, poetry as resistance and „poetry being a door to the unknown“ - Tricia Hersey from The Nap -Ministry). Mostly in English, sometimes auf Deutsch. ARCHIVE: /ffreitag Thank you to all my guests so far, you know who you are, to the studio ghosts and the technical support fairy and fellow host on Tuesdays @rosanna_lovell

dear Community of Practice, 💥❤️‍🔥🔥 past, present and future ! @th3_h0l0gram What’s the Hologram? If you don’t know yet it’s: “ONE PART SOCIAL PRACTICE, ONE PART TECHNOLOGY OF REVOLUTION, ONE PART FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION COME TO LIFE” The Hologram is a peer to peer protocol practiced from beds and couches around the world. It is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which produces a rare form of de-institutionalized stability that comes from seeing and being seen, caring and being cared for and supporting while being supported, in the long term. By making this form of viral communal stability, we believe that hologrammers and their communities may be able to use their stability to produce new ways of living that don’t rely on or reproduce the toxic systems that are killing us. Community of Practice within this web (or CoPrac) is a (mostly 1h-1.5h long) meeting where ~anyone~ who has used The Hologram (or who wants to) can ask questions, share tensions, and give or get feedback in a larger group. Or maybe we just need to understand how to talk about the end of the world how we know it and learn how to be with those difficult feelings … 🔥 English CoPrac every 4th of the month 🔥 4pm GMT/5pm CET/10amCT 🔥 DM for the zoom link to join If you’d like to have this in another language, we have existing and potentially existing CoPracs in Spanish and German. Reach out… ~~~ CoPrac for now is held by a rotating team of facilitators. Oh and we can also talk about implementing a totally doable theory of change into your life 🌀

You’re invited to 🐦‍🔥 IRRESISTIBLE FRICTION: a Masculiminal course for Hologram familiars 🐚 ⚡️ WHAT IS IT? This is the 9th @th3_h0l0gram course, and the first course aimed towards “familiars,” or people who are already practicing. In this course we will follow the irresistible friction within both our multi-dudes and our individual Hologram practice. This course is free to attend. 🤔 What are the personal and societal frictions that arise from our manifold masculinities and how can we meet them? 😯 How does our Hologram practice take place and space (or not) in our lives and why now? 🙂‍↕️ How can conflict, in our personal identities as well as in our relational practices, fuel and support us in times of massive change? 👉 Read more in the application form at bit.ly/friction9 🪨 WHO IS THIS FOR? For familiars of the Hologram across the gender spectrum(s) who wish to explore their masculinities and/or self-identify as masculine. We believe that all genders can coexist in all people. We understand you may disagree; wonderful! Please join us. If you are not familiar with the Hologram, you are still welcome, just reach out so we can catch you up. 🌈 WHEN IS IT & HOW TO JOIN? Sundays, May 10 - June 14 10am-12pm pacific time 1-3pm eastern time 7-9pm central European time Applications due Tuesday, April 28. Capacity is 24 people. You will hear back from us by Friday, May 1. 💸 This course is free for participants. Facilitators are paid through grant funding. 🪄 Sessions will not be recorded. 🫀 WHO ARE WE? @winniduu and @sirlyra are facilitating this course, and @vendredis.flow is administrating. We are Hologram familiars who have been facilitating MVHs, courses and workshops since 2021. Lucien and Lark co-created and began facilitating Masculiminal, a bimonthly open, experimental, online reading/discussion group and Hologram practice space, in 2024. The intention of Masculiminal is to explore, ease into and evolve our own masculinities, leaving behind patriarchal masculinity and working to heal its heavily policed boundaries. This course has grown out of Masculiminal and our varied experiences guiding Hologram sessions. 😄 APPLY NOW AT bit.ly/FRICTION9 🙌

I get sucked in like into a swamp on this app at the moment. Not that any other screen time is necessarily better, but if you want to receive my monthly (+-) text waves directly into your digital lap outside of the squared zone of collapse, you’re invited to subscribe to “every puddle is an ocean” 🌊 through the link in my bio 🔗🌳 it’s been a supportive container sending cancerian poetry (and my monthly radio show when it’s happening) out over the last years 🦀 🪶 POEM from slides: Das Meer in mir - receptive care red line oben rechts unten links ich schreibe auf Deutsch, damit keine*r mitlesen kann oben rechts unten links das sind meine Schmerz-Koordinaten ein einfacher Überblick, wenn eine wirklich detaillierte Berg- und Talanalyse nur für Verwirrung sorgen würde what do we need to let go of to (take) care? how do we bring it down to earth, bayo asks that thing called care core heart someone just collapsed on the train just like that eyes wide open i thought he was dead, for a second then came back we called for medical assistance, but he didnt want it stood up and walked away “health care is the number one cause of bancrupcy in this country” * read that again care and harm both have their roots in sorrow and grief we are radically incomplete, he continues saying all of the time so what are we chasing if it’s impossible “the impossible within” was the answer impossible within im.possible that piece of yourself you find under a street lamp on a moon walk in a leaf that looks like a cross cause nature is our church in a park that’s a half circle in a train that’s a loop. bringing you forward but also always back zurück zu meinen Sorge-Koordinaten. wann übernehme ich Verantwortung für das ausgetrocknete Flussbett? für das Meer in mir, das immer mehr möchte für das Salz, das langsam krustend entlang meiner Wirbelsäule Stalaktiten formt tropfende Steine tropfendes Herz in deine Mitte in unsere geteilten Herzen receptivity is a gift she said let them all in * this country was the USA (but could be anywhere else too) poem from dec 2024 en honneur de mamie lulu 🖤

🔥 ASMR IS ONGOING (softly loud from ear to ear) ~ The Anarchist School for Medicine and Rest/Repair/Revolt/Return/Re… is in its fourth iteration until March 26 🐚 Join us at The Casino for Social Medicine on Sonnenallee 100 every Friday from 1-3.30 ❤️‍🔥 We are a school dressed up as a free clinic for mutual aid. We are school because we are learning, from each other as practitioners, from those who ask for support and then become our teachers or practitioners themselves, from our own limits and capacities… We are an anarchist school because there is no agenda of growth and productivity. Our growth is constant change and this is an experiment in collective care that is imperfect. We have to try something to know what we need. We sometimes need to be messy and fail. We remember what’s been done before and worked. Collective experiments like this are “actions that help us remain whole, that prevent us from going numb, and that bring us into political communion with other people (…) to build a counterculture of care in this precarious era.” Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba ✨ Some of our learnings so far: - how to receive care without a monetary exchange and encourage others to do the same - how to care for the care givers - how to navigate trust and a practice within a third space that maybe is not ideal for everybody - how to talk about the German healthcare system and navigate it when nobody else tells you - how to counter professionalism and expert power - how to be an expert by simply doing what you enjoy, love or have practiced on yourself a thousand times - how to observe what is needed in the moment to support organisers do their work - how to use/offer our privilege of time/space - how to receive critical feedback and adapt - how to regulate with others in the room (or not if it doesn’t work) - how to listen while being distracted - how to cancel when it’s too much … tbc If you are curious about how to become a practitioner, you can contact us here: [email protected] Thank you 💘💘💘 Some of our recent offerings include: ❤️‍🩹 more in the comments (also not all of our beautiful practitioners are tagged here)

~ SICK COMRADE SURVEY ~ ❤️‍🔥 We live in a time of poly crisis. Poverty, pandemic, fascism and climate catastrophe shape our world. And sick and disabled people are some of the first to suffer the consequences. As the already profoundly inadequate healthcare services become less accessible globally, it is more clear than ever that all we have is each other. Sick Comrade, a Berlin based collective hopes to launch a mutual aid project that educates ourselves and each other and puts into practice how to better respond to the needs of fellow chronically sick and disabled people. This project is a reaction to our experience with and witnessing of the medical abandonment and gaslighting, cultural isolation and segregation of sick and disabled people. We hope to resist that isolation and find ways to respond to each other’s needs outside of the dominant and professional « care » systems. ✨ Some questions on our mind: How does system collapse relate to the worsening health of all of our bodies? How can we betray and extract from for-profit, exclusionary and ableist healthcare systems in order to get care for ourselves and everybody who needs it most? How can we build networks that break isolation and respond to unmet needs? How can we ensure our collective autonomy, while nurturing our inherent interdependence? We want to bring these questions out of the theoretical and actually respond to our collective needs in small, every day actions that connect us. We have in mind concrete mutual aid structures like anti-isolation phone hotlines, city wide solidarity webs, meal trains, doctor’s appointment accompaniment, medicine sharing, medical advocacy partners etc. This survey comes out of that intention (LINK IN BIO - please share with your sick comrades) 🐚 Do you question if you are « sick enough » to fill out this survey? Please put your disbelief aside. We welcome any sick comrade. The healthy body is an illusion. We contain multitudes. 🔥 If you prefer a more secure way to fill this form out feel free to email us with your answers (proton to proton mail is encrypted) [email protected]

Wanna experience THE HOLOGRAM?  Facilitators Lark Lyra Lou Hill, florence freitag & Vicc Repasi invite you to join them! Come to Arbeitszimmer thealit on Sat. 10th Jan., from 2 to 5 p.m We will give a presentation (in English) of the background of the Hologram, explain how it works and will practice the protocol together in groups: two can be facilitated in English and one in German. No previous knowledge required. The Hologram is a peer to peer health protocol (or in simpler words: a caretaking tool) designed by a group of artists and activists, inspired by the Social Solidarity Clinics in Greece. A working group named "The Group for a different medicine" created an integrative care model that inspired the Hologram how it is practiced today.Originally conceived as an artwork, this peer to peer care practice is now co-produced and used by thousands of people around the world, in various places from the USA to Taiwan,with an extensive and active offline community in Berlin. In the protocol, 3 people meet with 1 person (the hologram) regularly over time, to focus on their physical, social and emotional health by asking questions and taking notes. The person who articulates their needs and asks for support is our teacher and the expert of their own experience.By practicing the Hologram, we remember what it means to be a cooperative species, collectively create health and stability, and fight the oppressive systems we live within. Lark Lyra Lou Hill (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles who gathers people around topics and activities including pleasure, play, self-defense, healthy relationship and the holy, ineffable void. florence freitag (they/them) is a Berlin based artist, poet, body- & land practitioner and community organiser for social medicine (a.o. The Hologram), believing in collective spell & space making at the speed of crip time. 


Vicc Repasi (they/them) is a culture worker based in Bremen. Their special interest is power dynamics, and how they operate on different scales, with a particular curiosity about how oppressive systems show up in our relationships. @th3_h0l0gram @vendredis.flow @viccrepasi @sirlyra

Did you know what grows out of deadwood? ~~~~~~ A knowledge we share i write and stare the paper is not going to give me that answer, is it? pourtant, its made of them, those who know SOLASTALGIA homesick at home this whole place screams of it maybe a whole generation maybe more et pourtant, we abolished capitalism today right there, at the fire light waiting to cross on our bikes to see the next squat that had been evicted by the police. done. “wait, what?” they scream through the paper veil bark on bark on bark layered thin “no time for sapplings and snaps!” oh, i see! we didn’t wait to meet you, actually. we never even asked, actually. ok, i see: how again, do we grow like a tree? (et pourtant means yet, nevertheless in french) ~~~~~ I sent this off last week, on the thinnest night of the year, realising earlier that it’s always been one of my favourite folklores/rituals/traditions, when the dead and the spirits, human and non-human, feel closer. Something feels lighter, like that slither of an opening in the sunset sky, even though it’s the time where everything gets darker simultaneously. I’ve been thinking a lot about dying recently, out of personal interest, out of professional interest, out of acknowledgement of how much death there is in the world right now and out of seeing and feeling how the natural world around is letting go, shedding, almost clearing out. I wanna do that too, grow some new mushroom-skin on that snag-cell. Maybe you haved guessed who was talking to me/us, so i can reveal what got me there. I am reading “The Snag. A Mother, A Forest and Wild Grief” at the moment, by Tessa McWatt @snagsforlife and it’s been inspiring and slowly growing on me, like when you sink into moss. I just wanna leave you with two quotes: LINK IN BIO to read how some obstacles in life just can’t be “buried” No conclusions, just veilings and using this sneaky platform to lure you to where I sometimes share more of those circular words on spiralling tree spines and erupting volcanos 🌋

THIS WEEKEND! @pirate.care visits @casinoooooooooooo and @agit.berlin On Mutiny and Federation: Pirate Care Gathering - Agit & Casino for Social Medicine, Berlin, 18-21 September 2025 2025-07-21 With gratitude to @dylanspencerdavidson for the design. Details available at pirate.care Send a DM if you want the programme emailed to you.

🖤🏴‍☠️🖤 From September 19 to 21st @casinoooooooooooo will host “On Mutiny and Federation: a pirate care gathering”, initiated by the authors of the book “Pirate Care: Acts against the criminalisation of Solidarity” Next to the workshops, meet ups and discussions organised during @pirate.care we will open up the peer-to-peer clinic ASMR again, offering mutual aid ranging from Nutrition, Massage/Cranio, DIY HRT, Sex Ed, Abortion consultations, General Practitioner support, The Hologram Protocol, Top Surgery check ins and more… 🏥 Casino for Social Medicine, Sonnenallee 100 🌅 10:30-12:30 - 1on1 help desks and small groups ❤️‍🩹 upon arrival we ask everyone to take a Covid Test (available at the Front Desk together with masks) 📅 Detailed schedule 🔗 in bio WHY BECOME A PIRATE CARER? “Pirate carers give themselves permission to be in the world otherwise, to appropriate and share knowledges, tools, and techniques needed for their task, even if those must be stolen from the master’s house. (…) (it’s) those who work in the messy, queer and radical spaces where care grows not from compliance to protocols, but from tender, rebellious acts of collective survival.” ❤️‍🔥 ON ASMR: ASMR [Anarchist School of Medicine and Revolt/Rest/Repair/...] is a mutualist clinic experimenting with offering free high quality health care in a public cafe. ASMR extracts the doctor from the hospital, the bodyworker from the self-care industry, the artists from making symbolic gestures, the visitor from passivity, the health activist from making speeches, the healer from a hushed atmosphere and has them practice in a public space side by side. This leads to new formats of health support and to dissolving the “expert’s” ability to assume a distanced impersonal position. In our sessions, the “treatment” often flows equally between the practitioners and the incomer. ASMR originated at The Casino for Social Medicine. 🏴‍☠️🖤🏴‍☠️

Dear Comrades 🍉, Join us for a film screening and poetry evening I will be hosting at „New Yorck im Bethanien“ to gather funds for Zain @z_zain16 , a dear friend whose family is in a heartbreaking situation in Gåzå. Starting with wonderful poets at 18.30, we will then screen the documentary “To Kill a War Machine“ at 19.30, where frontline activists take us on a journey of disarming killer machines followed by a valuable discussion around the movement. Cannot wait to see you all there in solidarity and community, there will be amazing food and Pal🍉 artcrafts! ✊🏽