Saturday 22 March Action Research Walk with Archival Textures, Tabea Nixdorff and Anne Krul. During this tour, we will revive a few historical sites in Arnhem North - such as an unofficial women's house and newsroom in one - while hearing stories about Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant and interweaving new narratives.

At 14:00 we will gather at Plaatsmaken with tea and coffee, around 15:30 we will be back at Plaatsmaken and there will be snacks. The walk takes about 45 minutes and is wheelchair accessible. There are limited places available, please register via lenn@plaatsmaken.nl

*Communication language is spoken Dutch, if you prefer English please mention this when you register.

Over Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant
Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant was a revolutionary magazine “by and for black women,” published between 1985 and 1986 by the foundation ‘Zwarte Vrouwen & Racisme’ Arnhem. “The intersectional solidarity that the magazine Umoja demanded and practiced in the 1980s remains a model for us all.” The book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant (Archival Textures, 2024) gives the magazine the historic recognition it deserves and highlights the systematic marginalization of Black* women’s work of resisting and organizing. (*‘Black’ was introduced by the Arnhem Foundation as a political term, with the aim of bringing together all women labeled as ‘the Other’ in the Netherlands.) The magazine still reads alarmingly urgent anno 2025, and its republication is an invitation for more research into it and the initiatives it highlights. In addition, it is an important reminder for intersectional feminists today to never be silent.

Archival Textures is a publication series that seeks knowledges that are continuously obscured by normative perspectives on our bodies, desires, forms of cohabitation and expression. Archival Textures works with local community archives, personal collections, and conversations to find writings of the past that can inform our current vocabularies of resistance and solidarity. 

Tabea Nixdorff (1986) is an artist, typographer and researcher currently based in Arnhem. Her artistic practice involves (self)publishing, sound and language based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives, or libraries, Tabea’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error. In 2023, Tabea founded the publication series Archival Textures.

Anne Krul (1958) is an Afropean visual artist, poet, archivist and activist. She was a member of Strange Fruit, an organisation for young queer people from different cultural backgrounds. (1989-2002). They worked together to challenge their marginalization, within both their ethnic communities and the Dutch gay scene. They used creative discourse, activism, art and poetry to implement change: breaking silences, empowering each other, exploring co-creation. As an artist, Anne Krul has participated in the exhibitions Diasporic Self – Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca (Framer Framed, 2019), and the exhibitions Proud Aliens (2021), Hybrid Garden (2023) and Metamorphosis Manifesting (2024), as part of the artist community Open Atelier at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.

Image: Cover of Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant, jg 1, nr. 1, 1985, published by Stichting ‘Zwarte Vrouwen & Racisme’ Arnhem. Source: Persoonlijk Archief Ans Sarianamual