Gabrielle Antar, the co-founder of Déi Aner is excited to celebrate the 2nd birthday of the media company with a zine making event. Déi Aner translates to "the other" in English and that is who they are trying to include.

The Birthday celebration is happening with a Zine making workshop at MUDAM. The idea was to take the online zine and create something in-person that everyone can touch.

Gabrielle feels that there was a need for a new kind of media because "we are being dominated mostly by a vibe of more bougie, patriarchal, heteronormative, society or structures. She and her co-founder started Déi Aner as it was their dream to own their own media, and from the basic idea grew more motivation and more political engagement than they expected.

Does calling the zine alternative mean it is automatically political? According to Gabrielle, yes it does. She has found it a struggle to be outspoken about certain topics because of the nature of the country of Luxembourg. However, being politically openly is something that she feels people are craving, and it is because of this that they join the Déi Aner community.

The organisation grew last year when eight people joined through an open call. This gave Gabrielle a community, something she thinks is incredibly important in hyper individualistic countries like Luxembourg