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The App "PokoFL" was launched on April 2nd and is now available in App stores!

I AM QUEEN MARY is an art project by artists La Vaughn Belle (US Virgin Islands) and Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark), which was inaugurated as a temporary sculpture in Copenhagen on 31 March 2018. As Flensburg profited and actively participated in Danish colonialism, I AM QUEEN MARY also raises questions for Flensburg.

In February 2022, the state parliament adopted a recommended resolution for a "concept for coming to terms with the country's colonial history".

In June 2021, the Cabinet adopted the State Action Plan against Racism, as provided for in the coalition agreement. The action plan also mentions coming to terms with colonialism as an important measure.

Imani Tafari-Ama is a Jamaican cultural scientist who curated the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' in Flensburg in 2017. During her curatorial residency in Flensburg, Imani Tafari-Ama conducted ethnographic fieldwork on Flensburg's colonial connections with Ghana and the Caribbean.

In this article, Inken Carstensen-Egwuom looks at the significance of monuments in urban space, including the installation "Anchoring the Void" in Flensburg and the monument "I Am Queen Mary" in Copenhagen.