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Ra (Ronja) Fankhauser

(Keine Pronomen, they/them)

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Ra (*2000) grew up on a farm in the hills around Bern, Switzerland. They illustrate and imagine anti-capitalist, anarcho-queer sci-fi utopias and write for change and collective liberation.

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Socials

Insta: @digitalerrabe

Tumblr: digitalerrabe.tumblr.com

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Contact

ra[at]immerda.ch

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Publications (Selection)

“Tagebuchtage, Tagebuchnächte” (Lokwort, 2020)

"Nachgeburt” (GLITTER, 2023)

Briefe an meine Mutter (Das Magazin, 2023 - 2025)

Matriphagie (Edition Gossip, 2025)

Elegie für die schönste Frau der Stadt (FuckFair, 2025)

Something about yourself

Something about yourself

⋆｡°✩ Booklist ⋆｡°✩

Fiction


× An unkindness of ghosts – Rivers Solomon

× Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft – Fiona Sironic

x Dschinns – Fatma Aydemir

× Die Unendliche Geschichte – Michael Ende

× Hijab Butch Blues – Lamya H.

× I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter – Isabel Fall

× Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead

× Margins and Murmurations – Otter Lieffe

× Martyr! Kaveh Akbar

× Medea, Stimmen – Christa Wolf

× Miroloi – Karen Köhler
× Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler  

× Split Tooth – Tanya Tagaq

× Stag Dance – Torrey Peters 
× Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg


× The left hand of darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin


× The fifth sacred thing – Starhawk

× Woman at the Edge of time – Marge Piercy


× Zami – Audre Lorde


Non-Fiction

× An alle orte die hinter uns liegen – Sinthujan Varatharajah

× Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

× Care Work – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

× Dear Senthuran – Akwaeke Emezi

× Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum – Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

× Sick Woman Theory – Johanna Hedva

× Zu Lieben – Lann Hornscheidt






Alt Text: A website with a lilac background. There is text on a green square with some pressed flowers around it. There are 6 drawings made with coloured pencils and felt tip pen. They look like this:

1: Drawing of a person from the chest up. The Background is made up of purple and grey, bush-like shapes. The person has their hands lifted in front of their face, as if blinded by a light or fighting through the branches and spider nets surrounding them. Their skin is brown and red, the insides of their hands are white. There are drops of water hanging in the spider nets and around the eye that is visible between the person’s hands.

2: A drawing of two people from the chest up, one standing behind the other and covering their face with their hand. The person in the back has white skin, long black hair and is wearing a green robe. The person in the front has brown skin, short, light curly hair and is wearing a green top. There are stars, small creatures and other details around them. The drawing has a frame with bats, flowers, thorns, a knife, a candle, a key and moons in it.

3: Drawing showing a Person sitting leaned against a tiger, working on their laptop. Between them, there are two real lion cubs and one robot-lion-cub, which is connected to the persons laptop with a cable. In the background, another person is working on a bigger robot lion. There is a frame with flowers and cables around the picture. The colours are orange, grey and blue.

4: A Illustration of a portrait in black and white, showing a person with curly hair, grey skin and a breathing tube in their nose.

5: A illustration of a portrait in orange, blue and brown, showing a person with brown skin, wearing a blue hat with bunny ears. There is a screen hovering above their left eye, showing a message that reads: Error, connection failed. There is an orange frame drawn around the picture with text in it that reads: I AM NOTHING MORE THAN A MACHINE, I AM LIKE YOU, YOU ARE LIKE ME.

6: Illustration of a portrait in pink and green, showing a person with pink skin, red horns and a cable wrapped around their neck. One of their eyes is abstracted to a green circle with circuit lines coming out of it. There are venus flytraps in the background. END ID.