2024
Writing queerly
Queer writing creates spaces for thinking about gender diversity and lgbtiaq* living realities. Queer writing becomes intersectional when queerness is embedded in the critique of binarity and of identity as demarcation and exclusion. Above all, however, queer writing means queering. And queering is a process that interrupts the violence inherent in normality. Queering is a […]
Continue readingQueer Theory – Queer_Pedagogy
New publication 2024 An introduction to queer theory by Antke A. Engel. Queer theory is explained in a accessible way, yet, without losing sight of complexities and controversies. What’s special: Excerpts of the three experimental video introductions to queer theory (Engel/filmfetch 2021) can be accessed via QR code while reading the book, and guide the reader through the text.
Continue readingSafer Spaces, Queerversität und trans*versale Gerechtigkeit
Report (in German) about a talk by Dr. Antke A. Engel at the national assembly of autonomous student chapters (AStA) at German universities.
Continue readingScopes of Presentation. Naming and other encroachments
On Thu, 25th of July, the IQT invites you to a review of the aesthetic concept of the Queerokratia! conference and a playful brainstorming session on actions around the naming policies of Berlin’s registry offices.
Continue readingAffective Activism: Trans/TIN* World-Making
On 14 June 2024, a joint exchange with a Finnish research group on academic and activist strategies against the takeover by the right in trans/TIN* politics will take place at iQT.
Continue readingQueering Audibility
11 April, 2024, 8 pm, Lettrétage, Berlin-Mitte (DE / EN / DGS / with sign language interpretation). Hearing and Deaf performance art exploring their encounter A a collaboration develops between deaf performance artist Eyk Kauly and the hearing sound artists HYENAZ (Kate Fischer and Adrienne Teicher). Together they explore through sound, signs, and performance how conditions of audibility can be challenged.
Continue readingpointed nuances – writing politically on social media
Engel queerversing // Engel wider die Eindeutigkeit, writing workshops and free-lancing profile
Continue readingself-determination 2.0
On 12 November 2023, the SBSG group “Selbstbestimmung selbst gemacht” (“Self-determination done yourself”) published an alternative draft for a self-determination law – egalitarian, for all, against coercion, convinced of the sexual maturity of all people. As the government draft of the self-determination law, which was approved by the Bundestag on 12.04.24, has various snags, there will be a federal conference for self-determination from 30.05.-02.06.24 in Berlin under the title QUEEROKRATIA.
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