‘Linn da Quebrada leads trans-black resistance in Bolsonaro's Brazil’, Deutsche Welle, January 2019

Jup do Barrio and Linn da Quabrada at HAU, Berlin. Photo: Camille Blake/CTM 2019

Dubbed the ‘Crazy Black Queen of the favelas,’ Brazilian trans-black singer and performer Linn da Quebrada is back in Berlin for a series of shows and talks at a time when her community has come under increasing attack.

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‘Chelsea Manning changes face at Berlin's Transmediale festival 2018’, Deutsche Welle, January 2018

‘Probably Chelsea’ (installation view), 2017, Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning.

The American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg first had contact with Chelsea Manning in 2015 when the whistleblower was serving a thirty-five year sentence for leaking classified information while working as a US army intelligence analyst in Iraq. But before the two had even messaged, sent letters or spoken, Dewey-Hagborg had received hair clippings and cheek swabs from Manning after they had been smuggled out of the prison.

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