Projects

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Anti-Racist Digital Resource Sharing: From Awareness to Action

Local Event November 2025

The event took place in Lauseria, Berlin Kreuzberg and focused on anti-racist digital resource sharing as a practical strategy to increase access to existing but fragmented knowledge on systemic anti-Black racism across the Euro-Mediterranean region. Through a collaboration between EYFA Berlin and the Berlin-based Chkoun Collective, and a variety of civil society actors in Europe advocating for human rights, digital resources such as podcasts, videos, testimonies, and activist archives were curated into an exhibition supported by online access tools (QR codes, audio players, video projections, etc.)

You can download the zine below:

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Deep Roots – Decolonial Queer Ecology

Local Event September 2025

EYFA held the Decolonial Queer Ecology Workshop in Berlin, with contributions from Lama Rod Owens. The workshop brought together youth to explore how decolonial embodied practices and nature connection can inform resistance. Participants engaged with nature as a source of strength and learning, while challenging traditional binaries in both society and the natural world.

Through practical exercises, meditations and group discussions, the workshop empowered participants to connect ecological justice with decolonial somatic practices, encouraging them to use these perspectives in their activism. By embracing fluid, non-binary approaches to both nature and resistance, youth were given concrete tools to build more inclusive, sustainable futures.

Download the zine here:

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2025 EYFA Network Meeting

Black Connected Solidarities at Mycelium Project in Brandenburg, Germany

August 2025

In August 2025, EYFA hosted a network meeting at the Myzelium Projekt near Berlin, bringing together youth from Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, and beyond. The weekend was centered around empowering young activists to connect, share, and learn from each other’s struggles. Around 21 young persons attended the network gathering.

Participants took part in activities like a reading circle, informal learning, and discussions focused on envisioning and building stronger Black futures. Groups like a book club Rotterdam and the campaign against police violence shared their work, while others, such as the garden/farming group and representatives from Black History Month Belgium, contributed to conversations on food sovereignty, community building, and the importance of recognizing Black histories in Europe.

Throughout the weekend, the group came together in a calm environment, with time for nature, food, and informal conversations. These moments of connection helped build a stronger sense of solidarity and peer youth empowerment.

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Save the Date! Anti-Racist Digital Resource Sharing Event with Chkoun

Save the date for our next event for our project ‘Anti-Racist Digital Resource Sharing’ under the theme “Racism Kills at the Eur-African Borders From Awareness to Action“, in collaboration with the Chkoun Collective.

Program and details can be found on IG @eyfa_berlin or check out Chkoun on their socials.

About the event

Anti-Black racism across Northern Africa—though deeply rooted in histories of slavery, colonialism, and nation-building—remains largely erased or denied in public discourse. This erasure persists despite the increasing violence faced by Black populations in countries like Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya. From state-sponsored anti-Black policies and border militarization to the everyday acts of racial violence and social exclusion, Black North Africans and Black migrants and refugees in the region face multilayered oppression at the crossroads of race, nationality, gender, and class.

Today, these realities are sharpened by Europe’s externalization of its border regime. Northern African states are not only complicit in but active agents of racialized migration control. This has led to violent pushbacks, arbitrary detentions, and all sorts of human rights violations, disproportionately affecting Black people on the move and Black residents without state protection.

Join us for an afternoon of learning, discussion, exchange, and creating or solidifying BIPoC networks for social justice.

Please reach out by email or IG if you have any questions or requests 🙂

Your EYFA Team

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– Deep Roots – A Workshop on Decolonial Queer Ecology

Join Black Buddhist Lama Rod Owens for a free workshop on healing, rest, and homecoming for Black folks on September 18th.

Meditation & embodied tools as part of our project “Decolonial Queer Ecology”!

DEEP ROOTS

Join Black Buddhist Southern Queen Lama Rod Owens for a half-day workshop, offering a space of restoration, and reconnection for Black people. No matter how we think of home, it is a place that many of us need. Home is the experience of taking refuge in something that restores us through love. Homecoming is opening to how home is calling us into being held and cared for.

Drawing from Lama Rod’s transformative practice of the Seven Homecomings – Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, Ancestors, Earth, Silence, and Self – the session will explore what it means to truly come home to ourselves and to each other in the midst of apocalypse. This practice, shared in Lama Rod’s book Love and Rage, combines the three traditional sources of refuge in Buddhism with other important sources of refuge that embrace our diverse cultural, racial, sexual, and radical identities, so that we can bring our whole lives into this werk.

Come experience a simple yet empowering offering that will help us feel resourced with radical honesty, compassionate love, and a dedication to liberation for all.

DEEP BREATHS

You can take home practical tools for grounding, connection, and sustainability in your personal and political lives.

  • Meditation, Movement, Ancestor, Love and Compassion practices to support emotional processing and release.
  • Earth based rituals and practices in the garden, focusing on connection and our place within the ecosystem.
  • Reflections on sustainable organizing for Black communities, with a focus on rest as resistance, spiritual abolitionism, and collective care.

The venue in Berlin Kreuzberg is accessible with a wheelchair and has a garden. If you have more questions regarding the accessibility reach out to eyfa@eyfa.org. There are very limited spots, sign up via the link. The event is free of charge, donations welcome at the event.

If you can’t make it please let us know early enough so your spot can be given to someone else. We especially encourage Black LGBTQI* folks to join the event.

FURTHER INFO

Venue

  • The event takes place in Berlin Kreuzberg.
  • The venue has indoor & garden space, bring warm cloths/a blanket.

Accessibility

  • The venue is accessible by wheelchair.
  • If you have further accessibility questions, feel free to reach out to eyfa@eyfa.org
  • The workshop is held in english without sign language translation

Registration

  • Spots are very limited, please sign up via the link provided.
  • If you can’t make it, let us know in advance so we can offer your spot to someone else.

Cost

  • The event is free of charge.

Who’s Invited?

  • THE WORKSHOP IS FOR BLACK, AFRICAN, AFRODIASPORIC PEOPLE
  • We especially encourage Black LGBTQI* folks to join.

We’re looking forward to your registrations HERE :))

Your EYFA Team

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The TEFE 2024 Zine is Out Now!

Accessibility description: A group of five QTIBIPoC youth gather outdoors around a table under trees, sharing a relaxed moment during the Trans Empowerment Film Exchange. Some are seated while others stand, smiling and filming. One person wears headphones and holds recording equipment, suggesting a filmmaking or audio activity. The image has a warm, summery atmosphere and includes text reading “Trans Empowerment Film Exchange – Summer 2024,” along with EYFA and La Bassa Mar logos.
Cover of the Zine Trans Empowerment Film Exchange — Summer 2024

We’re happy to share with you the TEFE Zine, a collective publication emerging from the Trans Empowerment Film Exchange (TEFE) that took place this summer. The zine brings together reflections, texts, visuals, and political questions developed by participants throughout the process, capturing shared learnings, tensions, and visions rooted in Intersectional Queer&Trans organising across Europe.

Created through non-formal, collaborative methods, the TEFE Zine is both an archive of the encounter and a tool for ongoing movement-building. It reflects on solidarity in practice, collective care, and the realities of organising across borders, identities, and lived experiences.

The zine is available to read and share. We hope it sparks conversations, reflections, and new connections within your communities and beyond!

Zine – English version

Zine – French version

Good read :))

Your EYFA Team

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Zine – Our life, our Land!

We are very happy to share with our zine Our Life, our Land! This zine is the result of the workshop with the same name which we held in July. During it we had info talks with QTIBIPoC farmers and gardeners, who are fighting for the right to access land and for the production of quality crops that nourish entire communities. As a result we were able to identify and analyse the issues faced by young people in rural areas and young people displaced from their land. We could also raise awareness on land struggle and the connection to ancestral farming techniques. We finalised with the promotion educational food programs, urban garden, permaculture and food sovereignty.

Happy reading!

Zine – Spanish version

Zine – English version

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Release: Zine Right to Come, Right to Stay!

We are very excited to invite you to official release of the zine that was jointly produced by participants of the ‘Right to come! Right to stay!’ gathering we held in August in the Netherlands.

Join us on December 12, 2024 to discuss how we can mutually support one another in the process of forced migration, as well as to snatch a copy of our beautiful zines! You can also download the versions in German, English, Spanish and French if you aren’t able to join us in Berlin.

Please come tested and feel free to bring friends! Contact us on Instagram to register and become further details on the location

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Intersectional Anti-racism: Black Connected Struggles

FREE DRC! FREE SUDAN! FREE HAITI! FREE PALESTINE!

Inputs – Food – Conversation

11th August 2024 – 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Registration Info below

In this event we aim to unpack the intersections of racism, classism, and sexism to examine how one form of discrimination reinforces another, leading to intensified inequalities. We will focus on the struggles across the African continent, its islands, and its diasporas. Speakers will share insights from their own contexts on the necessity of intersectionally connecting Black struggles in political discourse and action. This exchange, rooted in Black internationalist perspectives, explored the links between various struggles and genocides, including those in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, and Palestine.

This a BIPoC only event organised by BLC & EYFA

Please come COVID tested.

The venue is accessible for people using wheelchairs.

For more details, please register by writing few words about your positionality & your connection to the topic to connectedstruggles(at)riseup(dot)net

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Right to Come! Right to Stay!

We are very exited to share with you the open call for the Decolonial Climate Justice Gathering: Right to Come! Right to Stay! EYFA and Papaya Kuir (NL) are happy to invite you to our international gathering by and for BIPoC, migrants, refugees and activists. During 6 days we will have workshops on the topics of climate justice and forced migration, self-organisation, sustainable activism and empowerment.

When

From the 20th – 25th of August.

Where

Near Amsterdam, Netherlands.

About

This 6 day gathering is about BIPoC refugee solidarity and resistance with focus on climate justice and forced migration. The areas and people most affected by climate change are not the ones who are causing the most greenhouse gases. We call for climate justice and freedom of movement! The capitalist exploitation of ecosystems and black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPoC) is connected and so is the resistance! The workshops are for empowerment, networking and knowledge exchange. The idea if to create a zine as a tool for knowledge sharing. The workshops and organising team are majority queer BIPoCs. They are familiar to tools and strategies to combat challenges during the processes of arriving.

Costs and support

The entire event is free of change for all participants. Accommodation and meals are covered. Travel costs will be reimbursed, childcare if possible, translation available, please let us know in the registration.

Registration

To register follow this link If you have any questions you can write us an Email. We are looking forward to meeting you!