It’s About Our Booties – Do it the Body Positive Way! – Workshop 3

Körperdiverse Reaktionen auf Körpernormierungen

Mit SchwarzRund

 

This workshop will take place in German spoken language.

 

10. & 11. Oktober 2020 // 11 – 18h

Informationen zur Anmeldung findet ihr hier. Bitte guckt euch dies vor einer Anmeldung an. Anmeldeschluss ist der 27.09.2020.


Körperdivers in dieser Gesellschaft fühlt sich ganz unterschiedlich an, je nachdem ob du zusätzlich Rassismus, cis_hetero_Sexismus, Klassismus und Diskriminierung mit Bezug auf Körper und Psyche erfährst. Körperdiversität; groß, klein, dünn, dick, (Cis)-Norm- Schön oder eben nicht, queer-dresscode erfüllend, femme oder butch… all dies wirkt sich auf unser Erleben des Alltags aus, Körper werden genormt, die dadurch produzierten Ausschlüsse hinterlassen Verletzungen, bringen aber auch eine Vielfalt von Handlungsansätzen mit sich.
Wie wird Gesundheit und Schönheit konstruiert und was sind die Auswirkungen für Schwarze Menschen und PoC? Woher kommen eigentlich die Konzepte, die uns so täglich nerven und wer profitiert davon? Hattet ihr Momente, wo ihr euch stark gefühlt habt? Wie können wir uns selbst und andere unterstützen?

Die Ziele des Workshops sind das Teilen von Erfahrungen, um dann daraus Handlungsstrategien zu entwickeln und uns unserer Handlungsmacht bewusster zu werden.


Für: Dicke_fette Menschen, die behindert werden, hier sind auch weiße Menschen willkommen.

Dieser Workshop wird in deutscher Lautsprache gehalten. Meldet euch bei uns, wenn ihr eine Übersetzung in die Deutsche Gebärden Sprache benötigt!
Der Workshop wird online stattfinden.


SchwarzRund kam als Schwarze Deutsche Dominikaner*in mit drei Jahren nach Bremen, lebt seit über einem Jahrzehnt in Berlin. Seit 2013 publiziert sie auf ihrem Blog schwarzrund.de und in diversen Magazinen und Anthologien. Mehrdimensionale Lebensrealitäten inner- und außerhalb von Communitys verhandelt sie in Performance-Texten, Gemälden, Vorträgen, Visual DJ-Sets, Zines und Workshops. Ihr akademischer Forschungsschwerpunkt sind Interventionsformen. 2016 erschien ihr afroqueerer Roman BISKAYA, derzeit arbeitet sie an ihrem nächsten großen Romanding.

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Online Reading Circle: Queer Lovers and Hateful Others (Jin Haritaworn 2015)

Facilitated by Rena Onat and Jin Haritaworn

Every Monday, June 29th – July 27th 2020, 6:00-8:00pm

“Exiled from both the gentrified spaces of queer regeneration and liberal multicultural moulds of respectability, the kitchen tables introduced in this book are crucial sites that wider social movements would be wise to become accountable to. Attending to them with care may well allow altogether different transitions to emerge.” (Jin Haritaworn, 2015)

On four consecutive dates we would like to dedicate ourselves to the book Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places by Jin Haritaworn, published in 2015: www.plutobooks.com/9781783712700/queer-lovers-and-hateful-others/

The course will be led by Rena Onat and will open with a public online talk by Jin Haritaworn on June 29th about their latest work: #NotGoingBack #NobodyLeftBehind: Leaping into Marvellous Grounds. The talk will take place in spoken English is open to the public, and not restricted to the participants of the reading circle. Pls. find further information here.

On July 27th, Jin will return to facilitate the final session of the reading circle.

The reading circle is deliberately set outside of an academic sphere and is explicitly also aimed at people who do not move within academic circles. The basis for the course is the mutual recognition of different forms of knowledge and knowledge production.

Course description

The reading circle will mainly take place in spoken German. The opening talk by Jin Haritaworn will be held in English!

In this course we will deal with current issues of bio- and necropolitics, mechanisms of exclusion and marginalisation, and colonial continuities of (Berlin) urban development and urban politics, based on the book Queer Lovers and Hateful Others. In this context, we invite you to relate the themes of the book to current developments. The cultural production of the Covid-19 crisis gives renewed relevance to the question posed in the book, which lives are worthy of protection and which are dispensable: “Who is allowed to live, who must die, and who is left to die?

Selected questions to be discussed in class:

  • How does the increasing securitisation and control in public space affect QT*BIPoC?
  • To what extent are we experiencing a renewed racist backlash in the wake of the so-called “Corona Crisis” and a repeated shrinkage in the size of spaces in which black people and People of Colour, especially QT*BIPoC, feel safe?
  • Which dreams and memories does the book open up? How can the generational knowledge we gain through Queer Lovers and Hateful Others help us to jointly develop new perspectives and decolonising strategies for the future? What possibilities and also increased urgency of exchange at kitchen tables and other places that are rarely perceived as places of social movement exist in times of physical distancing? How can these possibilities of exchange and joint knowledge production be implemented?
  • How can a transnational perspective support us in relating processes of marginalisation and systems of inequality and accordingly enable cross-community action?

Book description:

In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight in the shadow of hateful Others, who are fixed as homophobic and disposable. Rather than an ‘in’ or ‘out’ sexual citizen, Haritaworn treats the queer lover as a transitional object that renders the shift between a welfare regime and a neoliberal regime palpable, and makes punishment and neglect appear as signs of care and love for diversity. Talking back at ‘invented traditions’ of women-and-gay-friendliness, and a queer nostalgia for more murderous times and places, Queer Lovers traces the making of a moral panic over ‘Muslim homophobia’. The new folk devil inherits technologies from older transnational panics over crime, violence, patriarchy, integration, and segregation. In contrast, the book foregrounds the environments in which queer bodies have become worthy of protection, the everyday erasures that shape life in the inner city, and the alternative maps that are drawn at Queer of Colour kitchen tables in inner-city Berlin. In the process, queer lovers, drag kings, criminalised youth, homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism, and other figures of degeneracy and regeneration appear on a shared plane, where new ways of sharing space become imaginable.

Information regarding participation and registration

Please only register if you can participate in 80% of the sessions. If necessary or helpful for work or training purposes, a confirmation of participation from xart splitta and the facilitators can be issued.

The reading circle is explicitly directed to folks who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Colour. The willingness to engage with BIPoC Queer and Trans* topics is a precondition for attending the course.

Please register by June 30th at: contact@xartsplitta.net

Your registration must include a short letter of motivation in which the following questions should be touched on:

  • Why did I choose to take part in the reading circle?
  • In what way have I engaged with Queer of Colour politics and communities, or other topics of the reading circle until now?
  •  In what way might I contribute to the group I will co-create during the reading circle?
  •  What are my expectations and hopes in regard to the reading circle?

The link required for participation will be sent to you once we have confirmed your registration.

In this course, we aim to build a space that is grounded in generous and reciprocal relationships where every participant takes responsibility for their own well-being and that of the other course members.


Jin Haritaworn is Associate Professor of Gender, Race and Environment at York University in Toronto, Canada. Born and raised in Germany, they spent their foundational years at Queer of Colour kitchen tables in London and Berlin. Jin locates their work in the tradition of activist scholarship, which attempts to be in the service of communities. Their publications include two single-authored books, numerous articles (in journals such as GLQ and Society&Space), and several co-edited collections (including Queer Necropolitics, Queering Urban Justice and Marvellous Grounds). Jin has made foundational contributions to several fields on both sides of the Atlantic, including gender, sexuality and transgender studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and urban studies, and has left their imprint on various concepts and debates, including gay imperialism, homonationalism, intersectionality, gentrification and criminalization, trans and Queer of Colour archives and politics, and queer space.

Rena Onat is an art and media scholar and is currently working on her doctoral thesis on “Strategies of Resistance, Empowerment and Survival in the Works of Queer Artists of Color in the German Context” (working title). Her research focuses on queer theory, critical race theory, intersectionality, visual culture, contemporary art and artistic knowledge. She has worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and at the Helene-Lange-Kolleg Queer Studies and Intermediality at the University of Oldenburg. She has also been a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Bremen, at the Alice Salomon Universtity of Applied Science in Berlin and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (in the Foundation Class). Since March of this year, she has been working at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee as gender equality officer.


This event is part of the project  #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken and is sponsored by LADS.

Film Screening and Q&A: Forget Winnetou! – Loving in The Wrong Way

Thursday, 21st November 2019, 7pm

This event will be in spoken English and partly translated into spoken German.

An event by the filmmaker Red Haircrow, guest speaker Karin Louise Hermes.

November is Native American Heritage Month, a national holiday in the USA. But there and here in Germany, the dehumanization and objectification of Indigenous peoples, and the minimization or erasure of historical acts and issues continues. Colonial behaviors and practices that are connected to the most serious, even life threatening problems humanity now faces.

Germany is well known for its cultural appropriation and ideation of American Indians. Misinformation, stereotypes and Eurocentric narratives are widespread. “Playing Indian” as a costume or a lifestyle has been normalized for generations, largely with the help or excuse of Karl May’s work.

Whether one agrees with such practices or not, most don’t recognize it for what it is: #Colonialism2019 and Systemic Racism. Why are Native and Indigenous issues too often left out of conversations on racism in Germany? Why do so many people, even anti-racism or social justice activists continue to tokenize/primitize Indigenous peoples and/or leave them out of conversations on how to survive and create a better world for all peoples?

What truly is intersectional activism and why is it critically important for Indigenous peoples, the history of their treatment and contemporary reality to take stage alongside any and every other action on anti-colonialism, anti-racism and climate crisis? What can you do? What should you do? How can we work together?

We’re going to talk about it with our guest speaker Karin Louise Hermes.


Film description “Forget Winnetou! – Loving in The Wrong Way”:

The same mentality that ignores indigenous rights to self-representation are often those who also stereotype and gaslight GLBTIIQ people, women, the disabled or economically challenged, especially people of color just for desiring change and equality. It is basically saying, “My gratification is more important than your dignity, your rights or even your life.” This is a main facet of rape culture. It is intersecting oppression.

Most films about Natives concentrate on European narratives or indigenous experience in North America but there are Natives abroad and being “loved in the wrong way” in “Indian crazy” Germany has many forms. Germany is a microcosm of struggles taking place across the world both against and for decolonization; for correcting white privilege and supremacy that’s divided and helped destroy our world. We explore the roots of racism, colonialism, and appropriation in Germany from a rarely considered perspective: the Native American they claim to adore.

Vimeo with all trailers and videos by Red Haircrow: https://vimeo.com/redhaircrow

Further information: https://forgetwinnetou.com/
http://forgetwinnetou.de/

The film is in spoken English/German with German subtitles.


Karin Louise Hermes is a Filipina-German academic based in Berlin, Germany. Karin has participated in, organized and reported on many inter-sectional political issues at climate crisis conferences, during direct actions and demonstrations and other endeavors on Indigenous self-representation, ending racism and colonialism. She holds a MA in Pacific Island Studies from the University of Hawai’i, and is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. One of her articles, “Why I protest” can be found here.

Red Haircrow is an award-winning writer, educator, psychologist and filmmaker of Native (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) and African American heritage who holds a Master’s in Native American Studies MSU Bozeman, a BSc in Psychology and counsels selectively. Their research foci include Native/indigenous inter-generational historic trauma, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome, GLBTIIQ needs and suicide prevention.
Member of NAISA, APA, 2017-2019 Secretary for the Native Research Network & 2019-2020 Society of American Indian Psychologists Mentorship Program, Committee Liaison. Red remains active in Native American and intercultural education and cultural competency on both sides of the Atlantic. Currently based in Berlin, Germany, through their multimedia consultation company, Flying With Red Haircrow Productions, Red explores and pursues opportunities for collaboration in education, film, art, music and more.

Generell Information – Winter School

Registration

In order to make planning easier for us, please register under the following link: In order to make planning easier for us, please register under the following link: www.eventbrite.de/e/passing-it-on-winter-school-registrierung-75641123637 You can however participate without registering!

 

Languages

With the exception of Panel III, the entire Winter School will be held in German. For the English panel there will be simultaneous translation into German. We are sorry that we cannot offer DGS translation.

 

Childcare

We can offer child care for Nov. 16th from 12pm onwards. If required, please send us the following information one week before the event to contact@xartsplitta.net:

– Number of children
– Age of children
– Preferred pronoun of the children
– Possible allergies or food intolerances
– Other information relevant for childcare

 

Food

We are looking forward to a vegan/vegetarian lunch from Amma Catering.

 

Venue

The event will take place in cooperation with the Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße.
Address: Urbanstraße 21, 10961 Berlin. The Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße is mostly wheelchair accessible. Only wheelchair accessible rooms will be used. A wheelchair accessible toilet is available.

Further information on directions: www.nachbarschaftshaus.de/kontakt/anfahrt/
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Concept and project directors: Iris Rajanayagam & Nicola Lauré al-Samarai

With the particpation of: Fallon Tiffany Cabral and Zara Zandieh and the »Closer Reading« Group

Helping Hand: Latifa Hahn

Translation: Meldody Ledwon und Jennifer Sophia Theodor

Child Care: Hannah Abdullah und Lawina Koffi

Further information (in German) about the project can be found at: www.xartsplitta.net/passing-it-on/

German Sign Language Course 1 with the Team of Lebendige Gebärden I Spring 2020

The course will be in German Sign Language. German info below:

**Dieser Kurs findet online statt!**

Dienstags, 19:30h, 21. April – 30. Juni 2020
und
Mittwochs, 18:00h, 22. April – 01. Juli 2020

Auch in diesem Jahr, freuen wir uns einen DGS I Kurs mit Diana Spieß und dem Team von “Lebendige Gebärden” anbieten zu können. Jeder Kurs umfasst 10 Termine vom 21. April – 01. Juli 2020 (außer 23. Juni und 24. Juni) und findet jede Woche Dienstags von 19:30 – 21:00h und Mittwochs von 18:00 – 19:30h online statt. In dieser ersten Kursstufe lernen die Teilnehmenden grundlegende Kenntnisse zur Deutschen Gebärdensprache wie das Fingeralphabet, Vokabeln, Fragewörter, Zahlen und einfache Sätze. Außerdem werden die Teilnehmenden in drei wichtigen Grundtechniken der Deutschen Gebärdensprache eingeführt: die visuelle Wahrnehmung, die Mimik und die nonverbale sowie gestische Kommunikation.

Bei Interesse, Anmeldung und Fragen zu Teilnahmebedingungen, schreibt bitte bis zum 19. April 2020 eine Email an: contact@xartsplitta.net.


Zu Diana Spieß:

“Bist DU taub? ICH bin es! GEBÄRDENSPRACHE IST SPANNEND, VIELFÄLTIG UND WOW!”

Diana Spieß wuchs in einer tauben und gebärdensprachnutzenden Familie als taub Geborene auf. Sie ist auf dem Gebiet der Gebärdensprache Muttersprachlerin. Von frühster Kindheit an bestand ihr Interesse an einem Austausch mit der hörenden Welt. Nach einer Ausbildung und der beruflichen Tätigkeit als Sozialpädagogische Assistentin, qualifizierte sie sich erfolgreich zur Gebärdensprachdozentin. Seit dem ist sie neben vielen anderen Sozialen- und Schulprojekten im Bereich der Gebärdensprachvermittlung sehr aktiv.

Homepage: www.lebendige-gebaerden.de