Diskriminierungskritisch Dolmetschen
06.11.2024Community Session on Colorism and Black Identities
07.11.2024
Thursday, November 28th, 2024, starting from 6.30pm
xart splitta, Hasenheide 73, 10967 Berlin
This event will take place in German Sign Language and English spoken language with interpretations.
„Identity is embodied and rooted, not performed.“
– Leanne Betasamosake Simson
What does identity mean when it’s no longer defined solely by a past or external labels but by conscious and dynamic self-determination and a future together?
As we have been exploring, discussing and reflecting about Identities this year, we had the chance to create beautiful and informing spaces to reflect on discourses, positions and alliances.
We examined the ways identities are being ascribed, reclaimed, negotiated as well as which are highlighted whilst others were pushed to the sides. Viewing identities as dynamic and fluid constructs means recognising that they are not static or permanently fixed but constantly evolving in response to new experiences, relationships, and self-discoveries. Instead of being limited by labels or categories ascribed by society, identities have the potential of becoming an ongoing, self-determined process — a journey of questioning, adapting, and redefining.
Having these dynamics in mind, we would like to take the last panel of the year as a moment of envisioning. What happens when we can start dreaming of identities detached from structural oppression? We would like to try this motion towards envisioning what we can or could embody.
When identity is no longer defined solely by a past or external meaning but by conscious and dynamic self-determination, what does it mean? Can we also diverge from identities, therefore?
What are the consequences of understanding identity as something that can grow, change, and be reimagined? If identities name who we are, represent where we come from and built what we want to become?
We warmly invite you to the panel discussion “Re/Envisioning Identities” on Thursday, 28th November 2024 at 6:30pm, at xart splitta, Hasenheide 73, 10967 Berlin.
Moderated by May Zeidani Yufanyi , we aim to reflect on how identities can be renegotiated today and explore their potential for a reenvisioned futures beyond what is now.
Information on registration
Pls. register at contact@xartsplitta.net until 26.11.2024.
Registration is possible via text, video and audio.
This event is a Safer Space and is explicitly aimed at people who position themselves as BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color).
If you don’t know how you can or want to position yourself, please use the following questions as a guide:
- How have you dealt with the topic so far?
- Why do you want to participate?
- Do you have any needs or require support to participate (e.g. language assistance, etc.)?
Corona measures:
Please come tested with a rapid test on that day (tagesaktuell) and stay at home if you show symptoms. In our space, there are air filters that filter corona viruses.
Our panel
May Zeidani Yufanyi
….is a social scientist. thier work focuses on civil society networks against discrimination and on postcolonial migration societies in Europe, and on identity formation processes in the context of German migration society.
As a Fem of Color and migrant with Muslim and Jewish roots in Palestine and Europe, intersectional approaches play a central role in thier work.
they published works in ZAG, A&K and MIGRAZINE and poems in Mondoweis and the Sammellband HEIMATLOS: Gedichte and is a co-host of the radio shows “Talking Feminisms” and “The VOICES” on Reboot.fm. They are a member of “The VOICE Refugee Forum” since 2007, they sit on the board of xart splitta and the represent the Berlin Muslim Feminists on the board of neue deutsch organisationen .
Karla Pinto
….is a Black Queer engaged in antidiscrimination work such as anti-racism, gender liberation and environment justices.
She is a speaker and empowerment trainer conducting workshops to prevent and combat violence based on gender, race and anti-Blackness.
Founder of Rabelades farm, Black queer led agroecological project for marginalized communities have access to land, farm, heal and reconnect with nature.
She is also interested in community healing spaces and provides workshops on movement and breathing, herbalism and spirituality …
Day Eve “Dream” Komet
…is a shapeshifting time-traveling entity that takes the form as a writer, philosopher, multimedia artist, facilitator, world maker and performer. They delve into the unseen and overlooked dimensions of existence, asking questions that create dream-like realities that provide infinite possibilities of beauty and gruesome truths.
As a world-maker they like to engage in world-making through care, courage and creativity. They practice fantastical collective liberation in Everything Changes, a Berlin based afro-futurist, afro-whimsical, performance collective. As the creator of AUDIOSLUT.COM an intergalactic universe, which jumps and explores rabbit holes into other dimensions.
Gitanjeli Parkash
….lives in Berlin. Gitanjeli is a Brown, Deaf, Queer activist. They work at the anti-discrimination centre for the deaf community and like to be active in the socio-political field, especially in various areas such as Safeguarding, Awareness and Empowerment for Deaf BIPoC in the deaf community, for example at the German Deaf Youth Association. Gitanjeli is also interested in how deaf people live in India and follows various organisations of Indian deaf activists, also for possible collaboration. In Gitanjeli’s free time, they loves listening to music in different genres, from RnB to Indian evergreen songs.
Hyemi Jo
…is a Deaf activist who gave up on relationships, marriage, and having children, based in Berlin, Germany since 2018. Currently working at KoreaVerband, Hyemi engages in various forms of activism and artistic expression, including sign language performance, drawing, and video, without being confined to a single medium. Through art, Hyemi confronts the discrimination, pain, anger, and loneliness in front of us, and seeks to connect with a broader range of people based on these shared experiences.
This event is taking place within the framework of our LADS funded project #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken.
