Deaf Stress Factor: Hearing Ignorance
This event is focusing on audism and deaf culture’s relation to queer-feminist and anti-racist contexts.
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KLIRRRRR – a festival of queer cultures of conflict
(Deutsch) KLIRRRRR festival heißt: Musik, Videos, Workshops, Diskussionen, Ausstellungsbeiträge und Performances von Künstler*innen und Aktivist*innen, die inspirierende Umgangsweisen mit aktuellen Konflikten vorschlagen.
Continue readingRearranging Space through GESTURE
Gestures move faster than speech. And the signals of human body presence dominate and determine space. Come explore the unspoken codes and wordless translations of human interaction at the Saal Lun* with the Secret/Common/Mean Languages team.
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What does solidarity mean in the face of conflicting interests? How can we bring our different communities together in solidarity? What does it mean not to think of solidarity strategically but on the basis of our – power-permeated – relationships? Can conflict become an important aspect of our coexistence? These questions will be discussed by Urmila Goel, Najwa Ouguerram, and Sabine Mohamed.
Continue readingThe Right to Provoke: freedom of speech, hate speech, and the politics of censorship
Should hate speech be protected as free speech? Or should it be criminalized? In her talk on language, power and violence Nikita Dhawan adresses the question if and when certain forms of hate speech should be proscribed and how is this different to censorship.
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Countering day-to-day violence through queer cultures of conflict
a series of events starting in November 2017 at aquarium (Südblock), Berlin-Kreuzberg
Is it possible to counter day-to-day violence through queer cultures of conflict? This series of events looks at the multiple shapes that violence takes and calls for a queer answer of how to affectively and effectively counter widespread normative, symbolic and epistemic violence.
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Secret Languages – Common/Mean Languages
Secret Languages – Common/Mean Languages is a workshop series which explores the multiple (and often silenced/hidden) experiences and strategies young people use for dealing with the language of authority and power asymmetries. Focusing on the creative uses of everyday languages among youth in crafting alliances across differences and disagreements, the project will address the potentials of conflict in mobilizing […]
Continue readingCaring for Conflict
is asking for creative practices in dealing with conflicts. Conflict zones, belligerence, the joy of irritation, quarreling techniques, utopias of disagreement: How to live conflicts? What can we learn from each other to respond in conflicts with more than silence or aggression? How do different experiences connect to new forms of quarrel?
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Un_learning Violence is the name of a reading and research group interested in the psycho-social effects of political violence. We assume that in order to overcome violence, one has to understand how its histories and enabling conditions constitute subjectivities and embodiments. What does it mean to un_learn violence?
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