2025

Fog machines and colonial ghosts

Lecture (in German) by Antke A. Engel, Basel/Switzerland, Mo 27.10.2025, 7:30 pm: In exchange with Glass is my Skin , an installation by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (Cristal Palace, Madrid 2022) the lecture asks about queer aesthetics: How – and why – do we invent or enjoy artistic practices which interrupt or subvert the desire for simplistic identity constructions or binary oppositions? (While the lecture is in German, the website also provides a Youtube Link to an English version of the lecture.)

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SAG – SexWorkAct – commenting the draft

The draft law aims to reduce exploitation, dependencies and violence in sex work – which is precisely why it opposes the equation or conflation of human trafficking and sex work. Das Sex Work Act is also called SAG – say something, say what you think and what you want. The law thus refers to consensus in contact, social participation and media representations: The law ascribes crucial importance to sexual education and voluntary counseling – not only for sex workers, but also for clients, those around sex workers and society as a whole. A political intervention by sex workers who practice self-empowerment and social participation.

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Draft of a sex work act (SAG – SexArbeitsGesetz)

Press conference June 2, 2025, 11:00 in Berlin, presenting the draft of a Sex Work Act (SAG) written by sex workers themselves. Where: 12-Apostel-Kirche, An der Apostelkirche 1, 10783 Berlin. The launch of the Law for Equity, Respect and Rights in Sex Work is meant to initiate public debate on sex workers’ critique of the current law. It takes place in the the context of celebrating 50 years of International Sex Workers’ Day (1975-2025).

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