2026 – 20 years of iQt
Why do we need an Institute for Queer Theory – today, more than ever?
- because Queer Theory fosters respectful, non-hierarchical encounters with difference!
- because un_learning difference is learning nonviolent planetary cohabitation!
- because queerversity (rather than diversity) acknowledges and cherishes what is otherwise ignored, disavowed, or excluded!
Queer theory means thinking difference differently – and envisioning livable futures for all.
The iQt strives for pleasure in complexity, confusion, and collaboration under conditons of conflict. This makes you resilient against simplified solutions and dishonest promises!
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Trans*versal Justice
Trans*versal Justice and Rose Gardens
16 Feb, 2026 Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGHgfVdsJxk/?img_index=11
Excerpt: Trans*versal justice is the guiding principle of our times: justice as a practice of struggle, of caring for conflicts through traversing hegemonic orders in a double movement: simultaneously fighting difference as inequality, but fostering difference as particularity and uniqueness.
Trans*versal justice stands for a non-additive version of intersectionl justice, including planetary and more-than-human perspectives. It unerlines processes of transing as in theories of transversality, pluriversal conviviality, or in trans* politics: Transing moves through dualisms, not denying bt spiraling them into multiplicities. This undermines their hierarchical arrangement, with the asterisk* indicating uncountable options.
Queerversity rather than diversity
Safer spaces, queerversity, and trans*versal justice (24.05.2024) (in German)
Sex_gender entries in birth certificates and passports
No Sex Entry at Birth
Campaign for the improvement of the Self-Determination Act (SBGG), also initiating a global discussion about the legal regulation of sex, and the ways in which we can foster sexual and gender self-determination. https://www.queer-institut.de/en/no-sex-entry-at-birth/
Naming Policies: Naming policies of the Berlin Neukölln registry office (24.07.2024)
Reform of German transsexual law:
Towards a reform of the German “transsexual law” (28.04.2021)
Sex_gender in the German Civil Status Law:
News about the new German Civil Status Law 06.2019 (in German)
Conflictual complexity
under construction
> for more see page in German