Soura Film Festival, the so-called “First Queer Middle East & North African Film Festival” completely excludes Palestinian filmmakers and has chosen to highlight Israeli films. Soft or strong, normalization is normalization! This is not a theoretical debate, but a concrete demand to not exclude Palestine and the Palestinians from the discussion. The very fact that …
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Organisers fail to silence BIPoC voices at Berlin “anarchist” pride
Official statement from Berlin Against Pinkwashing and QUARC about the 2020 Berlin Anarchist CSD: Despite the promises of the Berlin Anarchist Christopher Street Day march (ACSD) to hold an event “where all people feel comfortable”, it ended up being more of the same: the organisers subjected BIPoC marchers to racism and silencing. In the face …
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The “march for queer visibility in Neukölln”
We distributed flyers at a “march for queer visibility in Neukölln” yesterday. The attending crowd was (unsurprisingly) overwhelmingly white and sprinkled with a bunch of rainbow-colored european union flags. Fun fact: people with EU-gear were especially unwilling to read our flyers and engage with our criticism, immediately throwing them away or demanding that absent BPoC …
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Our Lives, Our Streets! Palestine Solidarity in the Radical Queer March Berlin 2019
Official statement from the organisers of the ‘Queers for Palestine’ block More than 500 people showed up for the Queers for Palestine block in the Berlin Radical Queer March on Saturday, July 27, 2019. From the anti-deutsche “radical queers” who evidently called the police to block us, to the cancelation of the queer after-party at …