[10][12][13] Yaghoobifarah works as a contributing editor for the feminist Missy Magazine,[10] as well as having freelanced for multiple other publications such as Spex, an.schläge, Migazine, and bento; while also maintaining a personal column named Habibitus in taz.
[11][15] The main focus of their works lies on the topics of queer theory, feminism, anti-racism, pop culture, aesthetics, body positivity, intersectionality, and anti-fascism.
Your homeland is our nightmare), in cooperation with Fatma Aydemir and 14 other German authors, including Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Max Czollek, Mithu Sanyal, Margarete Stokowski, Olga Grjasnowa, Reyhan Şahin, and Simone Dede Ayivi.
It focuses on topics of racism, discrimination, and nationalism; seeking to deconstruct an 'ethnic and antisemitic' German understanding of Heimat (roughly: Homeland).
[22] The article was strongly criticized by parts of the German left at the time, as some viewed Yaghoobifarah's argumentation as reminiscent of talking points used by the New Right as well as a justification of ethnopluralism.
[27][28][29] The journalist Jan Fleischhauer criticized the article and those that praised it for holding a double standard, viewing such publications as incompatible with the goals of anti-racism.
In the article Abschaffung der Polizei: All cops are berufsunfähig (English: Abolition of the police: All cops are unfit for work), Yaghoobifarah made reference to the international Black Lives Matter movement and aimed to write a satirical article addressing racism in the Police, which they claimed is also present in Germany.
Some journalists and politicians viewed it as equating humans with garbage,[33][34] and some even understood it as a case of Volksverhetzung or 'group-based misanthropy' against police officers.
[38] The two German police unions, Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft and Gewerkschaft der Polizei, announced that they were filing a criminal report against Yaghoobifarah,[39] upon which the Berlin Police president Barbara Slowik issued an internal letter to all officers where she pointed to German freedom of speech laws as well as past court decisions on slogans such as ACAB.
[40] The federal minister of the Interior at the time, Horst Seehofer, also announced to file a criminal report against Yaghoobifarah, but decided against it after public backlash.