“mirror glances” and “true colors” as Afro-German intervention in feminist dialogues

04.02.2020
14:00 - 18:00

University of Kassel, Kassel

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Invitation to the last presentation of the lecture series “Feminisms in dialogue”!

lecture: 14.00 AM Georg Forster Str. 4 – Raum 3004

interactive talking: 16:00 – 18:00, Moritz-Café (moderated in English, personal translation into German)
Meet the authors – Conversation with Denise Bergold-Caldwell (Co-editor of "mirror glances") and Eleonore Wieden Roth-Coulibaly to their activist-academic experiences and intersectional orientations, mit Blick auf deren Potenziale in Kassel //to open up a conversation about their activism and engage in a dialogue about intersectional activism and its significance in Kassel.

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"Mirror glances" and "Colors" as Afro-German intervention in feminist dialogues

Vortrag von Denise Bergold-Caldwell (Co-editor of "mirror glances") and
Eleonore Wieden Roth-Coulibaly (writer in “true colors” and co-editor of "mirror glances")

While the release of “true colors” (1986) clear in a (boys) Black woman circle was conceived and the Black-being and Female-being in Germany are at the center issues, treated the issued also by the Black Women Collection “mirror glances” (published 2015/2016) Questions of gender and racism theme Black Feminism, to make queerness and Trans perspectives without this in the chapters for the sole focus. “Colors "is the result of a clear feminist claim out and focuses on, what it means, than blacks (and woman) Growing up in Germany. The book “mirror glances” continues this tradition and takes into account overlaps in experienced discrimination, by providing a platform blacks in Germany, to especially in the form of individual biographies of queerness, parenthood, Youth / Age, Anders Sein, their legal status as Escaped, Police violence and the social status of (Not-)Belonging to sprechen.Die last 30 Years of the Black movement(s) in Germany are inconceivable, without the continuous leading role of black women recognize, the self (if you ask) defined as all, what cis-woman, womanist, feminist to queer enough. They all share, they struggle, black, to provide post-colonial racism and sensitive perspectives. In the lecture, we will talk about the feminist backgrounds of both books; the struggle for our perspectives and dialogues, build up the each of the publications or trying to track. In a second step, we want to discuss, what we and the participants * inside in both books as “feminist” feel. Finally, we provide you with this text questions of academic and activist work. We want to create a framework for questions and answers and approach to the question, how and why these books are contributions of a diverse feminist dialogue.

Eleonore Wieden Roth-Coulibaly is co-founder and still active member of the Initiative of Black People in Germany, ISD-Bund E.V. Over the years (since 1985) she has led anti-racism seminars, research on language and racism, published numerous articles in anthologies and magazines. ISD projects with long-term effect as the exhibition “Homestory: Black biographies in past and present” and the Youth Theater Project “YoungStars*” it has launched. The focus of her work are empowerment and networking, Intersectionality and anti-discrimination and scandal racist issues in Germany. This is inter alia. their contribution to German culture. Professionally, she is a mediator language in German as a foreign language, Translator and editor. And by the way she lives – as best they can, in this their country.
Denise Bergold-Caldwell, Dr. (phil.) is scientific managing director of the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Future Research at the University of Marburg. The doctorate in education- and educationalist and a trained teacher teaches with an emphasis on post- and decolonial educational processes. She earned her doctorate at subjectivation by racist and gender-based write-ups and "blackness" and "whiteness" racism in the context of critical and postcolonial theory. Her research focuses on Black Feminist Theory, critical postcolonial theory and education theory. Denise Bergold-Caldwell has been involved in numerous publications. She is co-editor of "mirror glances. Perspectives on Black movement in Germany " (2017 [2015]) and published inter alia. in the journal "FAMA. Feminist Theological Journal ". In summer 2020 her book is published "Black Female * opportunities".

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