Queer Commons – how do queer people make space for each other

𝒬𝓊𝑒𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒬𝓊𝑒𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈 are spaces, communities, networks, resources, events, actions, relations being made by queer people to oppose and build alternatives to the carceral, extractive, oppressive, capitalist forces in the world. As part of a research project between London and Hamburg, we’re hosting several events to find out what queer commons mean to different people – they will take place at and in-between PARKS and – as part of Cruising Mythology Symposion – SchauSpielHaus.

“From one vantage point, “the commons” today might look like the proverbial dodo, facing extinction as a result of neoliberal privatization across the globe. The conventional idea of the commons, as a resource managed by the community that uses it, might appear hopelessly anachronistic in the twenty-first-century. (…) If both the commons and the political solidarity of commoners are being enclosed and distorted in such ways, why bother with the commons as an idea or a thing today? And why the queer commons? Answer: because queer activism – not to mention queer life – is a particulary rich resource for imagining, experimenting with, and enacting the improvisational infrastructures necessary for managing the uneveness of contemporary existence. Moreover, while not always labeled as such, grass-roots politics in the past decade or two, and queer activism in particular, looks to have been significantly shaped by commons-forming initiatives.” (Butt, G. & Millner-Larsen, N. (2018): The queer commons)

➤ 𝑺𝒂 𝟏𝟔.𝟗. 𝟏𝟏.𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟒.𝟎𝟎 | 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 – 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒈 || 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑲𝑺

➤ 𝑴𝒊, 𝟐𝟎.𝟗. 𝟏𝟓.𝟑𝟎 | 𝑮𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑲𝑺 – 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 || Meeting Point: 𝑭𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒖𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒍𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔

➤ 𝑴𝒊, 𝟐𝟎.𝟗. 𝟏𝟖.𝟑𝟎 | 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 – 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔 || 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑲𝑺

➤ 𝑭𝒓, 𝟐𝟐.𝟗. 𝟏𝟖.𝟑𝟎 | 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒂 – 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔 || 𝑫𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒖𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒍𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔, 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒍

by:ab__, CavalCantine, Franziska Dehm, Fran Edgerley, Ella Esselmann, Eythar Gubara, Dorothee Halbrock, Hallo: e.V.. / PARKS, Mia Hadžikadunić, Lina Jaruntowski, Artemis Kondyli Roussou, Luka Lenzin, Liv Neumann, POSSY, Nuriye Tohermes, Clara Umbach, Didine van der Platenvlotbrug, Eliza Wagener, Aska Welford, PK3000 and others.