Co-Working Space @xart
25.09.2024
Diskriminierungskritisch Dolmetschen
06.11.2024
Monday, Ocotber 7th – Friday, Ocotber 11th 2024
xart splitta, Hasenheide 73, 10967 Berlin
AWO Begegnungszentrum, Adalbertstraße 23A, 10997 Berlin
This event series will take place in German and English spoken language and German Sign Language.
LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA+ und queer, gay, trans, ace: Es gibt verschiedene Allianzbegriffe für Menschen, die von Queerfeindlichkeit(en) und/oder von Trans*feindlichkeit(en) betroffen sind. Die Begriffe sind und waren immer Teil der Communitys und tragen Bedeutung, Kraft und Widerstand in sich. Doch wie mit vielen Identitätsbegriffen gibt es einen (oder mehrere) Diskurse, Auseinandersetzungen, vielleicht auch Streits. Zudem verändern sie sich: Durch verschiedene Bewegungen und Wellen und auch von Generation zu Generation und von Community zu Community. Jedoch von Bündnissen und Zusammenschlüssen bis hin zu Safer Spaces und Empowerment: Das Akronym LGBTQIA+ wird häufig und gerne als ein Sammelbegriff benutzt. Schon immer auch mit gemischten Gefühlen. Und diese schwinden nicht.
Hinzu geraten queere und trans* Communitys in öffentliche und mediale Fechtfeuer und müssen sich leider auch innerhalb „der Community“ mit xyz-feindlichen Diskursen rumschlagen. Somit fehlt uns oft der Raum und die Zeit diese Diskurse und unsere Praktiken, jenseits von Queerfeindlichkeit und Transfeindlichkeit, ganz für uns selbst, kritisch zu hinterfragen.
Deshalb wollen wir einen Raum ermöglichen, in welchem wir unseren Fokus verschieben und uns fragen können: Wie fühlen wir uns mit dem Begriff? Welche Probleme kommen mit dem Akronym auf? Welche Diskurse darin sind aktuell für uns Thema und welche Perspektiven wurden (schon wieder) nicht miteinbezogen? Welche Auseinandersetzungen sind noch nicht klar – Was ist A und ist nicht-binär nicht Teil von T? Und wer ist hier eigentlich mit wem im Gespräch?
Zusammen mit der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Stiftung laden wir euch deshalb herzlich zu unserer Veranstaltungsreihe „Ganz, ganz viele Buchstaben“ ein:
Workshops
„Gender Non Conforming Fun Space“
with GodXXX Noirphiles
Monday, Ocotber 07th
11am-3pm at xart splitta
The Fun Space will take place in English spoken language, interpretation in German Sign language is available
Gender play is an avenue for affirmative exploration of gender non conformity. Through gender play, avenues are opened to discover different ways of gender expression that could lead to gender euphoria. Through inviting participants to play in makeup and recycled materials, they are encouraged to create new realms of being that can be used as a tool to access joy through self actualization.
„Indigenous to land“ with Jihad Yagoubi
Thursday, October 10th, 10am -2pm
at xart splitta
The Fun Space will take place in English spoken language, interpretation in German Sign language is available.
The facilitator is identifying with perspectives indigenous to northern Africa, and is inviting people to a conversational space of sharing and learning from one another. Through a set of playful word games and creative thinking exercises, this space is created for participants whose plural identities are at the intersection of gendered, ethnic and racial minorities in (northern) Africa. Exploring, naming, questioning, challenging, decolonising and envisioning identity in our own words is at the centre of this workshop.
There is no physical or colonial border that defines the limits of northern Africa in the context of this workshop, as long as it is within the African continent and its islands. Please reach out if you have any doubts about whether this space is for you.
Information on registration
QTIBIPoC space only.
This event is a safer space and therefore for People, identifying as BlackIndigenous People of Color and Queer Trans* Inter.
Pls. register via Mail at contact@xartsplitta.net, till Ocotber 04th 2024, written, audio and video are possible.
Game Night
The Game Night will take place in German Sign language and English and German spoken language.
Thursday, October 10th at 7pm, we are warmly inviting to a QTIBIPoC Game Night at xart splitta.
There will be Mario Party, Werewolf, Queer Taboo and many others!
Bring you own games too.
Registration is not required but we kindly ask to respect the safer space.
Panel
The event will take place in German Sign Language and English and German spoken language.
On Freitag, October 11th, we will conclude the event series and welcome you at the AWO-Begegnungszentrum in Berlin-Kreuzberg at 6 pm.
In conversation with Jin Haritaworn, Yezenia León Mezu, Paula Güllü and Judy Gummich, we want to come together in a QTI space and with all our questions and centre ourselves again in a discourse that is (just) about us.
Registration is not necessary, it is a QTI* only Space and we kindly ask to respect the safer space.
Our panelists & facilitators:
Jin Haritaworn
… grew up at Queer of Colour kitchen tables in London and Berlin. Jin currently lives between Berlin and Toronto/Tkaronto/Three Fires Territory, where Jin is an Associate Professor at York University. Jin has written two books, including ‘Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places’, about racism and gentrification in queer communities in Berlin in the 2000s and 2010s. Jin has also co-edited several anthologies, including ‘Queer Necropolitics’. Their last three collections as well as the blog MarvellousGrounds.com were co-published with the Marvellous Grounds collective and co-authored with community members in Tkaronto, aiming to archive QTBIPOC’s contributions to social movements there. Jin has made seminal contributions to German- and English-language debates on subaltern spaces, homonationalism, intersectionality, neoliberal cities, police violence/abolition and trans/queer of colour theories.
Judy Gummich
… is a diversity trainer and instructor, process consultant and systemic coach with a focus on human rights, inclusion and diversity. For almost 40 years, she has worked professionally, freelance and on a voluntary basis in various contexts on issues relating to the African diaspora in Germany, gender and sexual diversity, people with disabilities and intersectional realities and discrimination. She has been – and still is – involved in numerous committees in the course of her activist work.
Yezenia León Mezu
… is a freelance translator, writer and anti-discrimination lecturer from Colombia. Yezenia has a degree in Spanish Literature, Linguistics and Religious Studies. As an educational lecturer, Yezenia works on the topics of race, body, tradition and heritage. As a consultant, Yezenia León Mezu works on the intersections of race and intersex and researches and writes from an intersectional perspective on antiblackness, coloniality, politics of the body and desire, and mental health.
Paula Güllü
… is Deaf, Brown, Queer and was born in Berlin. She is active in the Deaf community and is currently training to become a sign language interpreter. In addition to her training, Paula is also active in theatre and contributes her experiences and perspectives as a Deaf person to artistic projects.
Adrian Marie Blount oder GodXXX Noirphiles
…is a California born- non binary- loving single parent – multidisciplinary/ Time-based media artist residing in Berlin, Germany since 2016. Adrian has traveled throughout the United States performing in various reputable theaters. In Germany, Adrian directed Qweendom at Theater Oberhausen and has Art Directed for House of Living Colors’ notable production series, ‘Endangered Species,’ for Orangerie, English Theater Berlin and Tanztage at Sophiensaele. Their solo works have been featured at Emerging Change festival at Ufer Studios, Underworld: Mycelium at Ballhaus Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, English Theatre Berlin, Oyoun and more. They also have guest mentored and lectured at Universitat der Kunst. Additionally, they have been featured in productions at Volksbühne, Maxim Gorki Theater, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and beyond. Recently, Blount’s premier multi disciplinary sculptural installation was featured at the Germanisches National Museum. Their Makeup art practice extends for over a decade including makeup art direction for Dido and Aeneas at San Francisco State University, art direction for Qweendom at Theatre Oberhausen, Make up art direction Katje Krasavice for Herz for Mein Bitches, and Head Make up Artist for PTO Media’s Dive In: Die Queer TikTok WG x NYX Cosmetics. They have also hosted many makeup workshops all over Germany.
Jihad Yagoubi
…is a PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin, finalizing their doctoral thesis on the topic of “Gender, ethnic and racial identities, and land justice in Morocco”. Jihad’s quest for decolonial praxis blurs the lines between their academic research and community organizing. As an Amazigh Black researcher born and raised in Morocco, Jihad’s academic and activist interests revolve around Black Feminist Thought and Black Internationalism, Feminist Political Ecology, or global conversations around Transformative Justice from the perspectives of marginalized communities. Besides their doctoral thesis, they work towards creating and consolidating Safer Spaces for Queer and racialized (BIPoC) communities in Berlin, and also spaces for conversation about racial justice in northern Africa.
Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen des von der LADS geförderten Projektes #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken statt.
In Kooperation mit der Bundesstiftung Magnus-Hirschfeld und dem AWO-Begegnungszentrum in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
