Queer refugee perspektives 

Our bodies are beautiful!

(Sepehr Masakeni)A look at the body in the daily lives of queer refugees who are facing sexist, racist and homo/trans* phobic forms of violence and clichés during their time of being asylum seekers and refugees. Examining issues of love, self-love and self-recovery in the PoC communities. Taking care of one´s body as a mean of political resistance.Please don't talk on our behalf!

(Pouya Arastoo)The refugee experience of queers and Trans*s is (((often))) marginalized in the PoC spaces in Berlin. The lecture will examine the experience of double oppression, both racist and homo/trans* phobic, in the reality of their daily lives as asylum seekers (((and refugees))). Even in the refugees' movement queer and trans* refugees are being marginalized. Examples and issues taken from my own experiences facing racism, sexism and homo/queer/trans* phobia in my life as a refugee in Berlin. A critical look at the hierarchy and the role of heteronormativity in PoC spaces.

Sepehr Masakeni, poet, writer and queer political activist in exile 

Pouya Arastoo, queer and trans* activist

September 8, 2013

15.15 – 16.45 Uhr

Großer Saal 1

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