You are standing on Christianshavns Torv: The entrance to the Metro is to your left, and the Hotdog food truck (Pølsevogn) is to your right. In front you see the Layer Cake House (Lagkagehuset), that big white and yellow building which houses the bakery Lagkagehuset, Joe & the Juice and other shops. There are also some marble blocks just in front of you. This is where the old women’s prison used to be.
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The FOURTH FREE - 1878 thousands of workers lead the largest Labor revolt in Danish colonial history. Among them are Mary Thomas, Susanna Abrahamson, Matilde McBean and Axeline Solomon. Their prison records state that each of them carried a pair of earrings - metal that pierces flesh to mark meridian pathways and map ourselves. They were banished across the Atlantic to the Women’s Prison in Copenhagen. Somewhere along this process, the one where people become myth and legend, these women come to be known as the Queens of the Fireburn. In burning down plantations and sugar factories, they were crowned by flame, anointed by ashes and exalted by the embers they encoded in each one of us.
We are awaiting the FIFTH FREE. Still. A free from imperial fantasies, a free that does not foreclose revolution, a free that does not make it impossible to imagine itself.