#CommunitiesSolidarischDenken

Funded by the LADS (State Office for Equal Treatment – against Discrimination of the Berlin Senate for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination), our focus from 2020 will be on the question of how we can #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken (Thinking communities in solidarity).

Pls. find further information on our programme in our events.

What does #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken mean for us?

•  Spaces: To jointly generate, explore and share knowledge as marginalised communities; to learn and unlearn from and with each other.
• Cross-Community: To break through ‘divide & conquer’ mechanisms with each other and across communities. Instead, recognition & empowerment with and through our different and specific experiences.
• Alliances: For policies of alliances and for developing common strategies to draw attention to both our different and shared realities.
• Intersectional: Working in a multi-layered and multi-dimensional way; emphasising and thinking about gaps, invisibilities and overwritings.
• Historical: Making historical entanglements and continuities evident – for solidarity and transnational action..
• Sustainable: Documenting and publishing our processes and results.
  

We are confronted with constantly growing right-wing populist and racist tendencies in Germany and internationally. For us, the continuous development of new perspectives, spaces for reflection and possibilities for action are one way of dealing with this. It is important to us that different forms of discrimination and racism are explicitly named and that their historical and structural interdependencies are addressed and analysed. Realising this work within intersectional alliances and solidarities is therefore a central starting point.

We want to create spaces in which we can generate, exchange and pass on knowledge together. In doing so, we want to irritate and break through hegemonic discourses that have silenced, overwritten or erased marginalised perspectives on history, historical developments and current situations. The moments and strategies of coming together and (joint) resistance in the context of oppression and marginalisation are significant for analysis and practice.

Another central component of the project is the identification of the necessary framework conditions for successful alliance policies and alliances. Initially, this also means critically scrutinising certain mechanisms of representation and erasures: Which perspectives and narratives are perceived and which are concealed or overwritten? Where are the gaps and how can we name them? It is precisely these narratives that need to be traced, perceived and (re)centred.

For the design and realisation of the project, we work closely with various communities, some of which we are part of ourselves. We work with the help of participatory methods at an early stage of conceptualisation in order to reflect the multi-perspectivity and multi-dimensionality that such a project must entail.

For questions, contact and everything else: contact@xartsplitta.net

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#CommunitiesSolidarischDenken brochures & documentationen

Pls. find all of #CommunitiesSolidarischDenkens documentation on The Living Archives.
Our brochures and documentation are in German and English spoken language and German sign languages. Gaps of translations will be filled as soon as possible.

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