All the more in times of crisis, solidarity-based alliances are the backbone of emancipatory practice. But what can such alliances look like? How can one be or remain capable of acting collectively? When does it make sense to insist, to not give in, on one’s own position and reject all too broad alliances? And what about bad alliances? The “FORUM ALLYSHIP” wants to explore what practical options for action, critical self-reflection and views beyond the own bubble our Tender Squads can learn from to be good allies. In the frame of thinking about alliances, the focus is not only on the question of intentional and unintentional collaborations, tensions between autonomous structures and institutions, sub and high culture or the way we organize ourselves. What is needed in order to enable real solidarity among each other and not reproduce social inequality structures in our relationships, groups or events, is on the one hand an intensive self-education about one’s own roles and privileges and on the other hand a practice in being a good ally. The workshop “Let’s talk about Alliances” with Arpana Aischa Berndt and Mine Wenzel is a platform to analyse together  intersectional aspects of social, political and cultural inequalities and discriminations, focusing on alliances between people affected by different forms of discrimination. In conversation with the two workshop facilitators and Balance team member Ulla Heinrich, the question will be discussed how we imagine the Tender Squads of the future and what we need for them. Additionally, Anisha Müller’s “FemmeFitness Workshop” alternates between the analysis of dance and movement as an intersectional political strategy and sweaty and empowering moves.