Colonial Infrastructures #5:
Resisting Knowledge Erasure
PALESTINE 
SHADOW 
LIBRARY

POSTPONED

Date: Sunday, 30 November 2025
Time: 15:00 - 17:00 CET
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
Access: Free entrance. Registration at the door.

As part of the Colonial Infrastructures series, this 5th edition will focus on knowledge under duress and its circulation in times of repression. How do we gather to disseminate knowledge that was erased and dispersed? Considering destruction and censorship as acts of colonial force, Resisting Knowledge Erasure will focus on efforts of circulating knowledge via shadow libraries, fugitive archives, infoshop repositories, and other unsanctioned collections.

This event closes a chapter of labor that began in our 2023 programme, in collaboration with the BAK Community Portal in Utrecht, with the LIBRARIAN SWARM: Fuzzy Mirror Solidarity Network for Palestine. From hereon out, we will continue devising strategies for circulating this shadow library, assembled with many anonymous volunteers and in consultation with many shadow librarians, whom we thank. 

This event falls within Varia’s Counter-Coloniality Seed research thread and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Graphic design by G1ngG1ng on dirty freeware [ Meme Generator 4 Android ].