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Inside / Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective

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Post date September 11, 2016
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Leibniz University of Hannover
September 12 -16, 2016

This summer school aims to bring together scholars and activists from Central and Eastern Europe with peers from the United States and scholars of North American Studies. It reflects on the current cultural, legal, and political conditions of representation, articulation, and critique in Central and Eastern European societies, focusing on the very varied responses to sexual diversity, including the academic establishment of gender and queer studies…

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Toward a Non-Eurocentric Academia

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Post date September 1, 2016

Conceptualizing a non-Eurocentric academia is about pushing for a radical change in academic system of interpretation and production of reality, revealing the constitutive underside of (post)modern reason. The transformation strives to be effected by breaking down the academic walls, by challenging the existing political economy of global Eurocentric academia, the established academic disciplines, methodologies, sets of theoretical references, conceptual vocabularies and colonial visual orders in order to shift the geography of reason through dissident interventions by un/learning, producing counter-genealogies of thought and decolonial transfeminist sense/ibility. What is crucial here is to continue opening, accessing, thinking and acting from multiple locations, alternative arrangements of the social, and different political and epistemic possibilities coming from the Global South and East, interrelated with the work of its critical diasporas.

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Roots and Riots Festival

26th – 28th of August 2016, Radical Queer Wagenplatz Kanal, Berlin.

Radical Queer Wagenplatz Kanal and International Women* Space are the two self-organized BPOC/WLT*I* groups that organize this festival. These two groups are focusing on political empowerment and self-organization of WLT*I * and WLT*I*-non-Citizen, who are affected by racism, classism, state nationalism, sexism and homo-trans*-inter* discrimination.

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millionaires can be trans// you are so brave

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Post date August 20, 2016
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Exhibition 20 May 2016 – 13 October 2018
Schwules Museum*, Berlin

Framed by a program of performances, lectures and film screenings, millionaires can be trans* // you are so brave* is a multimedia exhibition that explores possibilities beyond traditional transgender narratives…

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Welcoming Women in Exile on Tour2016

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Post date August 13, 2016
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Women in Exile & Friends are finishing their Summer Bus Tour 2016 in Berlin. Since 25th of July they have been visiting refugee women all over the country to fight for their rights and against the discrimination they face as women and as refugees. Berlin’s welcoming group for Women in Exile invites you to the rally when they arrive in Berlin!

Oplatz //Sat. 13.8 // 15h