30 March, 2026 – a symposium on possibilties and limits of conceptual activism: What does it mean to do politics with concepts? Do concepts nonetheless imply embodied practices and material relations? Which concepts are interesting from queer and trans theoretical and political perspectives? How can conceptual activism advance trans*versal justice and keep critical movement against domination alive?
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Queer Cohabitations seeks to bring together discrete discussions and formulate a new parlance about trans and post-human ecologies, precarity of queer lives, racialized capitalism, and authoritarianism, about loss of (bio-)diversity and of democracy, as well as calls for climate and planetary justice. It seeks to help people forming a community where there is none and forge ties with the many, where it is fragmented. Under the banner of Queer Cohabitations, we seek to ‘demand the impossible’ – a polity for all to live and thrive together.
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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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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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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.
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On Thu, 25th of July, 2024 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.
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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.
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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 readingEngel queerversing // Engel wider die Eindeutigkeit, writing workshops and free-lancing profile
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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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