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<\/a>Laylah Ali, Untitled (from the Typology series) 2007, ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n
We suggest the term \u201cun_learning\u201d (with a gap), which references Gayatri Spivak\u2019s expression, \u201eto unlearn our privileges\u201c; whereby we assume a complex and contradictory multiplicity of privileges and discrimination. When speaking of racialized intimacies, we do not only mean erotic and sexual relationships but also friendships as well as political contexts, which are fuelled or underlaid by intimacies. While facing the fact that these relationships of choice do not exist beyond colonial histories or neocolonial and racist presence, we would still like to ask: Is queering possible?\u00a0Can it be productive to take such forms of intimacy into account, as well as the promises, desires, fears and anxieties that are entangled in the intertwining of racialization and eroticization?<\/p>\n
These questions will be approached via critical engagement with literary and essayistic texts. Short texts by Audre Lorde will serve as triggers and points of departure for our reflection process. What do they tell us about the difficulty \u2013 and the pleasure \u2013 of finding formulations and words, and thus of reframing potential conflict. What could it mean to express one\u2019s own position and encounters with difference, queerness, irritation, anger, and desire?<\/p>\n
Gloria Wekker and Gail Lewis are from Audre Lordes\u2019 generation, were friends of hers and explicitly represent her perspective of a solidary praxis in the context of multiple differences and power structures in the queer-feminist and Queer of Colour movements.<\/p>\n
Audre Lorde<\/strong> (1934-1992) was and is an important US-American author and activist and self-proclaimed: \u201eblack lesbian feminist mother poet warrior\u201c. The workshop will be spoken in English; however, workshop participants are most welcome to speak and discuss their opinions in German or any other language.<\/p>\n Please register (limited to 25 participants): mail@gender-queer.de<\/a><\/p>\n Organized by The workshop is part of a series of events titled \u201eChallenging the Neocolonial<\/a>. Queer and Diasporic Forms of Un_learning\u201c (Institute for Queer Theory)<\/p>\n Funded by Amadeu Antonio Foundation<\/a> and Gender\/Queer e.V.. Thanks so much!<\/p>\n
\nGloria Wekker<\/strong> is the author of \u201eThe Politics of Passion\u201c and of \u201cWhite Innocence\u201d (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and professor emeritus of Gender Studies at Utrecht University (NL).
\nGail Lewis<\/strong> (PhD) is a sociologist and psychotherapist at Birkbeck College, London (GB), working on gendering and racialization in postcolonial contexts.<\/p>\n
\nLena Eckert, Antke Engel, Sabrina Saase and Kathy-Ann Tan.<\/p>\n