Naming policies
Critical comment by Antkek Engel and Finn Scholle on the restrictions imposed by some civil registration offices in Germany concerning the implantation of the gender self-determination law (SGBB).
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Queering 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.
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The Multilingual Issue:
untranslatability, linguistic multitudes, embodied speech
InterAlia. Journal of Queer Studies, edited by Anna T. and Antke A. Engel. Contributors engage with questions like Which languages, dialects, registers, or codes are used to communicate issues related to pleasures, desires, and belonging? What does it mean when one’s first language is shadowed by another acquired later on? What is the impact on the person and their communities? How does language affect your sense of identity and belonging and what is the role of visibilities and opacities in that?