Book Launch: Queer Studies. Schlüsseltexte | Volksbühne Berlin
2023-09-05
On Monday 11.09.23, the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz will host the launch of Queer Studies: Schlüsseltexte, edited by Ben Trott and Mike Laufenberg. The book makes important contributions to the field available in German for the first time. They offer crucial insights into a queer rethinking of the critical analysis of capitalism, disability, racism, gender relations, geopolitics, activism, and “identity politics”. The volume includes some of the most influential works of queer of colour critique and queer diaspora studies, queer Marxism, queer negativity and queer crip theory.
The book premiere and show will present, comment and reflect on a number of the texts. It will include readings by Margarita Breitkreiz, Banafshe Hourmazdi and others, drag performances by Olympia Bukkakis and Hungry, as well as the following special guests: Edna Bonhomme on queering relationships and eros, Sabine_ Hark on lesbian visibility and lesbian activism in the AIDS crisis, Omar Kasmani on queer diaspora and migrant belonging, Isabell Lorey on queer theory, identity and materialism, Maxi Wallenhorst on the style of queer theory and trans Marxism. The event is hosted by Ben Trott and Mike Laufenberg and will be followed by an afterparty with a DJ set by kursiv.
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Queer Studies: Schlüsseltexte will be published by Suhrkamp in September 2023. It includes an extended introduction by the editors and texts by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Cathy J. Cohen, Judith Butler, José Esteban Muñoz, Ann Cvetkovich, Robert McRuer, Kevin Floyd, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, Gayatri Gopinath, Petrus Liu, and Karma R. Chávez in their German translation.