Queer Rage! This participatory exhibition is intended to provide space for our rage, our grief and the realities in which we live. The exhibition is also intended to capture variations of exclusion and their effects. It is also a reminder that queer lives must be protected.

Your artistic contributions can represent diversity, empowerment, feelings, expression, insight, grief and anger. The exhibition is collaborative and any queer person can participate and enrich the exhibition with their own contributions and submissions - you can even do it anonymously!

The exhibition consists of two parts in which you are welcome to participate:

Reality, Empowerment, Anger

This part of the exhibition focuses on your personal experiences. Here you can artistically express your rage about exclusion, discrimination and violence that you have experienced as queer people. It is about making the realities of our everyday lives visible and showing how we empower and assert ourselves despite all adversity.

This space is a call to raise your voice and transform the power that lies in our anger into creative energy. Whether through images, texts, performances or other forms of expression - share your stories, your feelings, and show that our anger is also a sign of our strength and resistance.

In Memoriam

This part of the exhibition aims to make visible the profound emotions and stories of queer people who have been pushed to the edge of their existence by discrimination, exclusion and violence. The aim here is to artistically process the reality of loss and the painful consequences of suicide in the queer community and to highlight life situations.

Your contributions should show that there are real people and life stories behind the numbers. Whether through images, texts or other creative forms of expression, give a voice to those whose lives have been cut short by societal injustice and remind us that their anger and pain are part of our shared history.

Show us (and the world) your Queer Rage!

Apart from that, you also have the opportunity to become part of the exhibition through a written interview. In the interview, we ask 3-5 questions and you can answer how you feel comfortable with them. You decide whether we are allowed to show the created material at the end. The answers will be shared anonymously.

• How has anger about exclusion influenced your understanding of queerness?

• What does empowerment mean to you as a queer person?

• What do you demand from outside queer communities?

• What do you want from within queer communities?

Participate?

Paul is 24 years old and studies Gender Studies at Bielefeld University. She is queer herself and dedicates her research to queer theory and trans studies. She is currently working on her master's thesis, in which she is investigating the lived realities of non-binary people in German-speaking countries. Alongside her studies, Paul teaches practical courses in biotechnology at the university. Topics such as migration, disability and discrimination shape her world and her thinking.

Her passion for queer issues is also reflected in her previous experience with queer art projects, in which she was actively involved. She’s been an activist against war, police violence and the shift to the right for many years, while also campaigning for climate justice, equality and better working conditions. In her spare time, Paul enjoys reading feminist and anarchist theory, which further strengthens her political convictions and commitment.

Paul

Konstantin is 28 years old and works in an anti-discrimination counseling center for LGBTIQ* and is dedicated to the topics of antiracism and queer visibility/queer rights movement in activism. Konstantin is positioned as a queer person of color. Growing up in a Turkish-Islamic working-class family with a history of migration, they have had a wide range of experiences that have shaped their life. Konstantin's own experiences of racism and discrimination also shape their educational and counseling work, as Konstantin has had to live through many experiences and injuries due to their own marginalization(s), which can be very important for empathetic and solidary educational and counseling work.

Konstantin cares deeply about standing up for rights and strengthening self-organizations. Through various voluntary positions, the motto “Talking with and not about people”, which Konstantin first picked up in queer voluntary work, is tied in deeply with their work and views.

Through their own art, Konstantin expresses feelings, experiences and the reality of their own life - be it in poetry, pictures, photos or videos.

Konstantin

Who is behind this exhibition?