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Dominique Haensell is an author, translator and reader from Berlin. She holds a PhD in contemporary Afro-diasporic literature and her monograph "Making Black History - Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism" (De Gruyter) was published in 2021. Her work as co-editor of Missy Magazine is currently on hold while she works on an autofictional book about her own family's connections to German and British colonial history(The White Rasta, Luchterhand).