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One year ago this week, the Diasporist officially went live: on December 20, 2024, we published our first batch of stories, including two poems by Ghayath Almadhoun, a personal reflection on home and homelessness from Millay Hyatt, and a conversation about Germany’s shrinking investment in cultural diversity.
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In the time since, we’ve published dozens of works from international voices. From a forum on this year’s federal elections in Germany, to an incisive evaluation of the media’s coverage of the war in Sudan; from breaking investigations on the transit of weapon parts to Israel routed through German territory to commentary on the state of feuilleton (and, in turn, the launch of our own tiny feuilleton section, the Seifenblasen); from fiction to translations that otherwise would not reach German audiences, our stories have reached readers in more than 70 countries. We’ve offered a much-needed home to progressive perspectives overlooked by larger media outlets and brought English and German audiences together in dialogue on topics that matter.
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We have done all of this without charging for subscriptions or implementing a paywall. This comes from our commitment to making high quality storytelling and analysis from in and outside of Germany remain accessible to international audiences. And now, the Diasporist needs your help.
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In the coming months, we’ll be releasing new investigations, analyses, fiction, and commentary from around the world. In a few weeks, we will also be launching Der Kleine Austausch, our first podcast, conceived and hosted by Emily Dische-Becker, and continuing our exclusive series on the Rise & Fall of the Federal Republic of Germany, publishing contributions from the symposium of the same name held in Zürich earlier in December.
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Over the last 12 months, we've appreciated your time, interest, and engagement. We’ve loved reading your letters and meeting you in person at our launch party. But now, we can only continue with your support. The Diasporist is urgently calling on our readers to keep our project going into its second year. Please consider an end-of-year gift to the Diasporist.
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All gifts will go towards paying our contributors, commissioning new translations, hosting nuanced conversations, and crafting the kinds of thoughtful texts we've released in our first year. Donations of more than 75 EUR will come with one of our limited-edition tote bags, screen-printed by Et Al. Press, shipped anywhere in the EU or the US.
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Thank you for helping us push back against German media's provincialism and for demonstrating the appetite for quality independent reporting and storytelling. We’re excited for what’s in store: let’s keep the conversation going.
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Julia Bosson
Editor-in-Chief
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P.S. End-of-year cash burning a hole in your pocket? Gifts to the Diasporist are tax-deductible, which, if you think about it, is a gift to your tax bill next year. A donation of any size makes a difference.
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