As an organiser in a learning journey, I am interested in the power of collectivity for creating dignified living that serve the communities I am invested in.

Tanzanian-Danish Phillip Mbuji Johansen was killed in June 2020 in the island of Bornholm in Denmark by two white Danish brothers. “They were found to have inflicted 39 separate wounds” on Mbuji Johansen (one news site wrote), yet their crime was not proven to be racist on the eyes of the Danish law despite the perpetrators’ swastikas tattooed on their bodies. Or, how similar this heinous murder was compared to George Floyd’s in the USA (and many other racist murders and violent attacks on black people in the USA and the West) back then in terms of how the killing was done:

• he had multiple stabbing and burn wounds all over his body

• a knee was pressed against his throat (just like Floyd by the police)

• he was beaten by wooden beams and a bottle

  The brothers have been convicted by the court eventually but their crime was never considered to be racially motivated even though their social media was swarmed with “white power” posts, and they seemed to have connections to right wing extremist movements and groups in Denmark.

NØRREBRO PRIDE

TTGODX

TRANSAKTION

BUMZEN COLLECTIVE

Bumzen collective is a QTIBIPOC separatist housing collective and community centre that began as a squat back in the 80’s by antifascist and leftist activists. It became a ‘collective’ in the 90’s housing antifascist, anarchist, anticapitalist action and movements in the neighborhood.

I moved into it in 2020 as my first ever housing collective as it was transitioning into a more queer house and then re-moved back into it in 2024 officially.

On the 1st December 2024, we decided to turn it into a qtibipoc-only housing collective and led community centre.

Our soon to be renovated public spaces comprise of a bar-café, Fireburn library, and a newly emerging workshop room. We are hoping to open in November 2025.

We currently have an open call for groups and collectives that wish to organize in our public spaces. It is a desire of ours to make stronger connections between activists, organizers, youth and elders of different communities living between nørrebro and nordvest. We imagine this happening through helping run our community kitchen, organizing events and other activities in the house. Click on the link if you have an initiative you want to start.

As a response to Mbuji Johansen’s death, I have called in for a grieving ceremony in his name. This was my first organizing work to mobilise those I knew after recently having moved to Copenhagen. And most importantly, to acknowledge the blatant racism black people endure in Europe /Nordics /Scandinavia /globally through the spiritual.

We were a few who showed up at Svanemøllen beach, picking up flowers on the way, chanting in the water and dancing to the sound of drumming by an amazing group of talented Senegalese griots. We claimed his name, his life, his existence on earth and grieved this loss. We celebrated Mbuji Johansen’s memory and transition even though we did not know him personally, in collectivity. This act has also allowed us to grieve countless black beings that are killed and violated at the hands of white supremacy globally.

Nørrebro Pride (2016-2024) has been a political local neighborhoods’s response to the commercial Copenhagen pride centring QTIBIPOC presence. It became a grassroots anticapitalist qtibipoc led community and movement to reclaim lgbtqi+ political pride and organizing in Copenhagen. Over the years, Nørrebro pride developed into connecting local struggles in the neighbourhood activating different groups into organizing for collective liberation.

Nørrebro pride has been part of radicalising my politics since I joined in 2020 over the following years, and it has been the space to introduce me to close friends and comrades I still organize with today.

The movement and organizing body evolved into a structure of QTIBIPOC assemblies in the neighborhood.
Thank you to Yancé-Myah, Se Eun, Sirena, Iberê, Ahsan, homies at Bumzen Collective and many other comrades that have been part of building this beautiful space.

Are you a QTIBIPOC in Copenhagen looking for community and interested in organizing? Find us on IG on @nbropride

TTGODX has been a separatist QTIBIPOC organized space based in Copenhagen during the two years of quarantined pandemic for collective rest, dreaming our own liberated futures and conjuring revolution through the body.

We organised meditation, gardening sessions, Kemetic yoga sessions, sauna events, and non-productive resting spaces for QTIBIPOC folk, and at times black queer only spaces.

TTGODX also came out from our same local QTIBIPOC network in nørrebro.

Thanks to Ahsan, Yancé-Myah, Nelly, Bella, Iberê, Hae Na, Qwin, Semine, Zozo and other comrades for doing this with us.

We will retake our activities soon again as part of Bumzen collective @bumzen_collective so stay tuned

Transaktion was the first ever organisation for trans* people in Denmark focusing on providing care, education and counselling for trans* people transitioning medically (or considering such) in the country. I have joined the organisation back in 2018 in both Aarhus and Copenhagen as a baby trans* attending support groups, and then as a co-facilitator of BIPOC separatist trans* hangout spaces with Sirena, Yancé-Myah and Zylvester back in 2020.

Sadly, the organisation does not exist anymore.

Thanks to Nico, Sirena, Yancé-Myah, Zylvester and many others for the work put into the organisation.