Zwischendurch gab es die GegenDieLangeweile auch auf Papier. Aber da es ein krasser Arbeitsaufwand war und es auch kaum Feedback darauf gab, haben wir dieses Projekt wieder eingestellt.
Do 12.09.2024 | 20 Uhr
Warm Beer Cold Women – An Anti-romantic Manifesto
Input and Discussion – will be in english, german whisper translation possible if needed
There will be a short input and presentation of the topics and ideas behind the text so you can also join if you did not read the whole text!
On this occasion we will discuss the text Warm Beer Cold Women – Anti-romantic Manifesto by the queer-anarchist group Good Night Macho Pride from Zagreb. The group was founded for the purpose of building accountability in punk circles around the issue of gender based violence. The text was published on the occasion of a punk event celebrating Valentine’s Day and it deals with the connection of the modern ideology of romantic love with violence against woman and queer people.
While workers working in the public sphere are disciplined by bosses, the police, unions and various institutions, workers in the private sphere are firstly disciplined by the husband / partner, and only secondly by the state. The reality of romantic relationships is the expectation of a certain kind of labor, the labor of care – emotional, sexual and housework. If people coded as feminine fail at this tasks, they can expect all kinds of emotional manipulations, threats and ultimately violence. The ideology of romantic love serves to reinforce heteronormative gender and bodily expectations, and as such does not only affect heterosexual couples, but also queer, trans and intersex people. We will discuss possibilities of different kinds of relations – ones that are based on friendship and comradery, that are not defined by the laws of the market, the rhythm of labour, imposed feelings of guilt and duty, psychological and physical violence, that are not commensurable and calculated. Relations that are the only thing that is authentically ours in a world colonized by the market and the spectacle.
Link to the Text: https://good-night-macho-pride.netlify.app/media/warm-beer-cold-women_final.pdf
Do. 19.09. Politbeisl | 20:00
Doku & Gespräch mit Thomas (via Video-Chat)
Gegen den Strom – Abgetaucht in Venezuela (Doku 2019, 84min)
german with english subtitles
ACHTUNG! Wir werden pünktlichst um 20:15 mit dem Film beginnen, damit im Anschluss auch noch das Gespräch mit Thomas klappt und er nicht warten muss.
“GEGEN DEN STROM – Abgetaucht in Venezuela” ist ein Film über ein Land im Umbruch, über die katastrophale Situation in Venezuela und über einen seit 25 Jahren im Untergrund lebenden mutmaßlichen “linksradikalen Terroristen”, seine Flucht vor den deutschen Ermittlungsbehörden und über ein transatlantisches Musikprojekt, bei dem es um zerplatzte wie aufrechterhaltende linke Utopien geht, um Widerstand, politisches Engagement, sowie die Kraft und den Glauben an eine gesellschaftliche Veränderbarkeit durch Musik.
Mit Thomas Walter und Mal Élevé (vormals Irie Révoltés)
ATTENTION: We will start the movie on time at 20:15 so that we can talk to Thomas afterwards and he doesn’t have to wait.
”Against the Tide – Submerged in Venezuela” is a film about a country in upheaval, about the catastrophic situation in Venezuela and about a suspected ‘radical left-wing terrorist’ who has been living underground for 25 years, his escape from the German investigating authorities and about a transatlantic music project that is about left-wing utopias that have burst and are still being maintained, about resistance, political commitment and the power and belief in the possibility of social change through music.
With Thomas Walter and Mal Élevé (formerly Irie Révoltés)
Do. 03.10. Politbeisl | 20:00
Politbeisl: Textdiskussion: A Call against Arms! w/ Antipolitika
Antipolitika is an informal network of friends and comrades from the Balkans and beyond, that produces a thematic journal. So far we have published three issues: on the subject of war, Yugoslavia and nationalism.
The participants of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair who came to Prishtina this year from 29 countries, spanning from Chile to Azerbaijan, called for the first week of October to be a transnational week of action against militarism and nationalism. For this occasion, on the 3rd of November, we will present and discuss the text “A Call Against Arms – Systemic Drivers of the War(s) and an Autonomous, Anticapitalist Anti-war Position”, which we have written in May this year. We call for a struggle against capitalist social relations, together with movements against racism, patriarchy, environmental destruction, militarism and in defence of the commons, with war resisters and deserters from the various war fronts, with feminists, migrants, precarious workers and environmental activists, a struggle that will create an autonomous anti-war movement against the capitalist machine of death and despair.
Talk will be in english, german whisper translation is possible if needed.
@ekh
Do 07.11.2024 | 20 Uhr – english below
True Trans with Laura Jane Grace – Doku 2014, 80min
english with english subs
“The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.”
Die Doku beleuchtet die Leben von Trans* Personen aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, zeigt die Schwierigkeiten und Probleme aber auch wie befreiend und positiv ein Coming-out bzw. die Transition sein kann. Auch zeigt sie, welches Potential eine progressive Punkszene haben kann.
Die Doku ist zwar schon 10 Jahre alt, aber vielleicht auch gerade deshalb spannend. Denn um diese Zeit hat die positive Repräsentation von Trans* Menschen in der Öffentlichkeit und Medien merklich zugenommen oder vielleicht auch erst richtig angefangen? Was hat sich seit damals geändert? Zum positiven? Zum Schlechten?
True Trans with Laura Jane Grace – Documentary 2014, 80min
english with english subs
“The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.”
The documentary sheds light on the lives of trans* people from different angles, showing the difficulties and problems but also how liberating and positive coming out or transitioning can be. It also shows the potential that a progressive punk scene can have.
The documentary is already 10 years old, but perhaps that’s why it’s so intriguing. Because it was around this time that the positive representation of trans* people in public and in the media increased noticeably, or perhaps it was only just beginning? What has changed since then? For the better? For the worse?
@ekh
