19:00
Sandershaus, Kassel
Marriage is sacrosanct in our society. Despite its institutionalization, it is romanticized and mythically glorified as the epitome of love. Marriage for women often increases inequality, and it leads to financial dependence. The bestselling author Emily Roig looks behind the facade of a patriarchal construct and shows the way to a revolution of love. Marriage normalizes relationships and family, controls sexuality, property and labor. It is an important pillar of capitalism and keeps us stuck in binary gender roles. In her courageous and provocative book, Emilia Roig calls for the end of marriage. She questions the dominance of couples and investigates, whether you can love men and overthrow the patriarchy at the same time. Ultimately, abolishing marriage would not only be liberating for women, but for everyone. Because only then can we rethink and live love with one another in freedom and on an equal footing. Emilia Roig has a doctorate in political science and is the founder of the Center for Intersectional Justice in Berlin. She teaches at various universities and gives keynotes and lectures on intersectionality, Feminism, racism, Discrimination and has the bestseller Why we matter. The end of oppression written. Emilia is an Ashoka Fellow and became 2022 zur »Most Influential Woman of the Year« des Impact of Diversity Award gewählt.
Dr. Emily Roig is a political scientist and author of the bestseller “Why we matter” and “The End of Marriage”. She is committed to it, to inspire people, to break away from systems of oppression and change the collective consciousness. She studied at universities in France, Germany and the USA on the topics of intersectionality theory, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, Taught queer feminism as well as international and European law. Before completing her doctorate, she worked at the United Nations in Tanzania and Uganda, at GIZ in Cambodia and at Amnesty International in Germany on human rights issues – and then decided, to leave the field of international development, to focus on social justice in Europe. 2017 She founded the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ). She was a jury member for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2020, has been 2019 appointed and received Ashoka Fellow 2021 the Edition F Award. She won the Impact of Diversity Award 2022 to “Most Influential Woman of the Year” chosen. Emilia Roig has been there since January 2023 Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
entry starting at 18 Clock / start at 19 Clock
entry: 5 – 10 €
The reading takes place in the Sandershaus bar.
Photo by Mohamed Badarne