QUEER ART IN THE GDR? Die Mauer ist uns auf den Kopf gefallen
Film screening and talk with Peggy Piesche
Peggy Piesche is one of five Black feminists who, in the film „Die Mauer ist uns auf den Kopf gefallen“ (2018), talk about their political activism against racism and sexism. In doing so, they refer to the period of German unification. How did they experience the profound political change and the subsequent rise in racist violence?
Peggy Piesche, born and raised in the GDR, is a scholar of literature and cultural studies. She heads the ‘Target Group-Specific Events’ department at the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Gera, focusing on intersectional knowledge of transformation and memory, diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality (d_id), as well as anti-racist civic education. She has been a member of ADEFRA e.V. (Black Women in Germany) since 1990. As a member of the Diversifying Matters research team, she, alongside with Katja Kinder and Prof. Dr. Maureen Maisha Auma, conducted the Berlin consultation on the UN Decade for People of African Descent in 2018. She also serves on various advisory boards, including the Equal Opportunities Advisory Board against anti-Black racism and for the equality of people of African descent in Berlin. She is passionately committed to feminist, community-based educational work and envisions creating a dedicated educational centre for this purpose.
The event is a cooperation with Sonntags-Club e.V.