Red Dawn above the City of Women / Rdeča zora nad mestom žensk

 Poster by Anna Ehrlemark


The special autumn edition of feminist and queer festival Red Dawns is going to happen between October 12th and 26th 2013 at various venues in Ljubljana, right after the 19th edition of City of Women fest. Our joint events are happening under the title Red Dawn above the City of Women. Expect a lot! And check out the full program here. 

Below is my introductory text for the catalogue. Further below is the Slovene version. Also recommended reading: Vesna Leskošek's text Personal is Political and Public Privatised and Mara Vujić's All Different, All Equal!

Red Dawn above the City of Women

Since 2000, Red Dawns festival has been working inside, alongside, and against the society, which disfavours women and sexual minorities – especially those that emphasize their markedness in order to point out the sexual hierarchies otherwise taken for granted. Because the promise of equality – nurtured by the image of red-haired heroine Zora, and the red morning sky – in capitalist barbarism is moving further away, it has not been easy to continue to organize the festival. Why this is so and where is the neoliberal re-patriarhalization of the society taking us will be explained by two theorists, Lilijana Burcar and Jasmina Husanović. Their lectures are going to wrap up the extensive festival program, dedicated to the Grand Domestic Revolution and the expansion of critical literacy.

As far as this year's festival image is concerned, our long-term designer Anna Ehrlemark decided to make use of the barbed flower symbol so as to pay homage to our co-operation with the Uprising Social Workers (Vstajniške socialne delavke). In March this year we launched a so-called Wall of Shame – a blog collecting misogynist, sexist, and homophobic statements of famous Slovene personalities. The fact that intellectuals and politicians can afford to say anything without consequences, without punishment, is ‘žabotno’, or sad indeed. ‘Žabotno’ is a neologism, created out of the surname of a Slovene writer, whom we ‘awarded’ with a barbed flower for the sexist statement of the decade. The word found its place in the free dictionary of spoken Slovene language, Unleashed Tongue (Razvezani jezik). Hopefully, both the Barbed Flower Award and Unleashed Tongue represent a big enough threat to the Žabot-likes, that, next time, they are going to bite their tongues before saying something sexist again. The scissors on the posters are, however, not for them; rather, they represent our desire to cut the world out in our shape.

The festival begins at Metelkova mesto with Kerry Howarth’s yarn bombing of public space. She will also conduct a workshop on the basics of knitting and crocheting. Although knitting is stereotypically linked to women, today's guerrilla knitting has little to do with the safety of the household. On the Square with No Historical Memory, just a few steps away from the institutions defining the artistic canon, Ana Čigon is going to leave a permanent mark. Her performance, Dear Ladies, Thank You, will become a unique monument to feminist, lesbian, and queer artists, excluded from the androcentric and heteronormative historicization of art.

The conception of the Red Dawns festival is linked both to our need for collective and public fight against inequalities, and to the need to nurture our own public and safe space for socializing and the retreat from pressure. Accordingly, it would have been sinful if we did not dedicate some of our attention to pleasure. This is the reason why we invited Bibliothèque Érotique to Ljubljana. They are a self-organizing library and a group of performers from Amsterdam, who are going to read erotic stories focusing on the fleshy needs of women and queers. There is also going to be a sound performance by two female musicians from Vienna – chra and Cherry Sunkist – which will sharpen our hearing capabilities by performing in pure darkness. Their mixture of pop, dub, ambient, and minimal techno is going to sound differently in the darkness than it would with the lights on.

Feminist public spaces are important also because we want to reach out and make the society understand the importance of feminist issues. This includes the demand for the inclusion of identity politics into the strivings for the re-distribution of national and global wealth, or the recognition that the emancipation of economically most vulnerable women should be a criterion for the emancipation as such. Until then, we will be working to bring the oppression of women into the general consciousness.

We address anyone who is willing to listen, as much as that is possible by organising a spectacular one-month event. We know that the art market, which we are a part of due to our financial support from the European Commission, has long been appropriating political art. Besides, feminist art often plays the role of a social corrective: firstly, by mitigating the effects of social hierarchies, it is taking on the role that should be played by the social state; secondly, by favouring self-organized, participatory-based, and collective practices that offer suggestions for better living, feminist art merges with socially beneficial forms of activism. Due to this instrumental inclination, there is less space for the ‘impossible’, that is, for the experimentation and expressivity, which have been historically connected to women, even though we could all use these qualities, especially today when the political is being reduced to official politics. This is the reason why the slogan ‘bringing chaos to structure’, which is going to be enacted on the stage of Menza pri koritu by Damenkapelle, shall be more than welcome. We are, however, not sure whether the fact that 'the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained’ in Damenkapelle’s relaxing rage, should make us happy or sad.

What furthers the depolitization of our festival is the fact that we, as organizers, despite European support, remain overworked and underpaid project workers. Because of that support, the Red Dawns team and the artists are going to be paid decently for the second time in our fourteen-year-long history. Yet, the question is what price we are going to pay for this. Are we going to be able to attend Inga Cholomogorova's butoh performance on the consequences of striving for artistic success on her own life? Will we have the time to go to the workshop on burn-out prevention? The workshop will follow the meeting of fifteen women's, feminist, LGBTI, and queer initiatives from former Yugoslavia, where we are going to discuss the possibility of exchanging program items and of applying for financial support together. All these groups fight for the public recognition of contemporary women artists, theorists, activists, and cultural workers in order to increase their – and our own – social security. This is why our precarious work can nevertheless be seen as a bitter, yet historically important moment in the long struggle for better working conditions and the re-distribution of wealth.

The resistance to structural causes of gender asymmetry remains the reason for our existence and the reason for our continual search for political allies. This year, we have allied with the City of Women festival. Our joint festival Red Dawn above the City of Women continues our locally situated feminist and queer politics. We look across national borders, because we believe that patriarchy is transnational. We are convinced that borders between genders as well as between nations and classes can be crossed, moved, and demolished with art, activism, and theory; that these forms of expression intertwine in our struggle for the ‘impossible’ – for that which is yet to come. For example, for a world without sexual violence, which, in the street performance of ACT Women, seems far, far away. This performance portrays the hard process that sexually abused women have to undergo, from the experience of violence up until the moment they decide to report the abuse to the police and dare say: ‘Rape is never a woman's fault. The perpetrator is the one who should be ashamed.’

We hope that our festival reaches you. And we hope that the critical insights and pleasurable experiences we offer in our program are going to help you live – not only survive, but live in hope that one day, the sun is going to really rise above the City of Women.

Translated by Ana Makuc.

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Rdeča zora nad mestom žensk

Festival Rdeče zore od leta 2000 deluje v, ob in proti družbi, ki ni naklonjena ženskam in spolnim manjšinam, še najmanj tistim, ki opozarjajo na svojo zaznamovanost, da bi izpostavile samoumevnosti, na katerih slonijo spolne hierarhije. Vztrajati ni lahko, saj se obljuba enakosti, ki smo jo od samega začetka gojile v podobi rdečelase razbojnice Zore in rdeče ožarjenega neba, v času »kapitalističnega barbarstva« očitno oddaljuje. Zakaj se oddaljuje in kam nas sili neoliberalna repatriarhalizacija družbe, bosta na festivalu pojasnili teoretičarki Lilijana Burcar in Jasmina Husanović. Njuni predavanji bosta zaključili obsežen program, posvečen Véliki gospodinjski revoluciji in širjenju kritične pismenosti.

Naša dolgoletna sodelavka Anna Ehrlemark se je pri oblikovanju tokratne festivalske podobe naslonila na simboliko bodeče neže in spomin na sodelovanje z Vstajniškimi socialnimi delavkami. Marca letos smo postavile Sramotilni steber, blog, na katerem smo z vašo pomočjo izpostavile mizogine, seksistične in homofobne izjave slovenskih javnih osebnosti. To, da si lahko brez posledic, nekaznovano privoščijo vse, se nam je zdelo naravnost žabotno. Neologizem, izpeljan iz priimka pisatelja, ki je bil zaslužen za seksistično izjavo desetletja, je medtem našel svoje mesto v prostem slovarju žive slovenščine Razvezani jezik, kar ob »nagradi« bodeča neža morda predstavlja dovolj veliko grožnjo, da se bodo žabotneži v bodoče raje ugriznili v jezik. Ostro nabrušene škarje na plakatu niso namenjene njim, temveč nam samim: krojenju sveta po naših merah.

Začele bomo na Metelkovi, kjer bo britanska umetnica Kerry Howarth s prejo bombardirala javne površine. Ob tem bo pripravila delavnico o osnovah pletenja in kvačkanja, obrteh, ki jih še vedno povezujemo z ženskami, le da sodobna urbana pletilska gverila nima kaj dosti opraviti z varnostjo domačega ognjišča. Na Trgu brez zgodovinskega spomina, nekaj korakov stran od institucij, ki določajo umetniški kanon, bo trajnejšo sled pustila Ana Čigon. S performansom Drage dame, hvala bo postavila svojevrsten spomenik feminističnim, lezbičnim in queerovskim umetnicam, izločenim iz androcentričnega in heteronormativnega zgodovinjenja umetnosti.

Festival Rdeče zore ni nastal samo zaradi potrebe po kolektivnem in javnem boju proti strukturni neenakosti, temveč zaradi enako močne potrebe po negovanju lastne javnosti: varnih prostorov za druženje in umik pred pritiski. V tem smislu bi bil pravi greh, če ne bi nekaj pozornosti namenile užitkarjenju. V Ljubljano smo povabile Bibliothèque Érotique, samoorganizirano knjižnico in skupino performerjev iz Amsterdama, ki vam bo brala erotične zgodbe s poudarkom na mesenih potrebah žensk in spolnih manjšin. Zvočni performans dunajskih glasbenic chra in Cherry Sunkist bo izostril vaš sluh z nastopom v popolni temi. Njuna mešanica popa, duba, minimalističnega tehna in ambientalne elektronike bo zvenela povsem drugače, kot bi pod lučmi.

Feministično javnost seveda potrebujemo tudi zato, da bi lahko segale navzven in celotno družbo prepričale o veljavnosti feminističnih zahtev. Mednje spada zahteva po vključitvi identitetne politike v prizadevanja za prerazporeditev (trans)nacionalnega bogastva oziroma predlog, da emancipacija ekonomsko najranljivejših žensk postane merilo za splošno emancipacijo. Dokler se to ne bo zgodilo, si bomo prizadevale za osveščanje o specifičnosti zatiranja žensk na identiteni osnovi.

Nagovarjamo vse, ki so pripravljeni poslušati, kolikor je to mogoče doseči s tako spektakelskim dogodkom, kot je enomesečni festival. Zavedamo se, da je umetniški trg, v katerega smo zakoračile ob finančni podpori Evropske komisije, politično umetnost že zdavnaj posrkal vase. Poleg tega feministična umetnost pogosto nastopa v vlogi socialnega korektiva: z blaženjem učinkov spolnih hierarhij opravlja delo, ki bi ga morala opraviti socialna država, s svojimi predlogi za boljše življenje v obliki samoorganiziranih, participativnih in skupnostnih praks pa se zlije z družbeno koristnim aktivizmom. V tej instrumentalni naravnanosti hitro zmanjka prostora za »nemogoče«, za eksperimentiranje in ekspresivnost, ki ju tradicionalno pripisujejo ženskam, v času enačenja političnosti s tistim, kar nam uradna politika dnevno meče pod noge, pa ju pravzaprav pogrešamo vsi. Geslo »vnesimo kaos v strukture«, ki ga bo v Menzi pri koritu udejanjil münchenski zajebantski oktet Damenkapelle, bo zato več kot dobrodošlo, četudi nismo prepričane, ali naj nas to, da njihov sproščujoči bes »v nobenem primeru ne predstavlja stališč Evropske komisije«, veseli ali žalosti.

K depolitizaciji Rdeče zore nad Mestom žensk dodatno prispeva dejstvo, da organizatorke kljub evropski podpori ostajamo prezaposlene in podplačane projektne delavke. Res je, da bo ekipa Rdečih zor zaradi nje drugič v štirinajstletni zgodovini festivala za svoje delo plačana, in res je, da bodo končno pošteno plačane tudi nastopajoče, vprašanje je le, za kakšno ceno. Se bomo utegnile udeležiti butoh nastopa Inge Cholmogorove o posledicah p ehanja za umetniškim uspehom na njeno osebno življenje? Bomo imele čas za delavnico o preprečevanju izgorelosti? Sledila bo srečanju s predstavnicami petnajstih ženskih, feminističnih, LGBTI in queerovskih pobud iz postjugoslovanskega prostora, s katerimi želimo premisliti možnosti za izmenjavo programov in skupno pridobivanje sredstev. Ker si vse prizadevajo za večjo prepoznavnost sodobnih umetnic, teoretičark, aktivistk in kulturnih delavk, s tem pa tudi za njihovo (in našo) socialno varnost, je naše prekarno delo vendarle mogoče razumeti kot grenak, a pomemben trenutek v boju za boljše delovne pogoje in prerazporeditev denarja.

Upor proti strukturnim vzrokom za spolno asimetrijo ostaja razlog za naš obstoj in razlog za iskanje zaveznic, ki smo jih tokrat našle v Mestu žensk. Naš skupni festival Rdeča zora nad Mestom žensk nadaljuje s feministično in queerovsko politiko, vpeto v ta prostor in čas. Pri tem se oziramo preko nacionalnih meja, ker jih patriarhat presega, obenem pa smo prepričane, da je tako nacionalne kot spolne in razredne meje mogoče prestopati, premeščati in rušiti s pomočjo umetnosti, aktivizma in teorije, ki so medsebojno zavezani »nemogočemu«: tistemu, česar še ni, a nekoč bo. Recimo svetu brez spolnega nasilja. Ta se v ulični predstavi beograjskega kolektiva ACT Women zdi neskončno daleč, saj obravnava težaven proces, skozi katerega gredo spolno zlorabljene ženske od nasilne izkušnje do trenutka, ko se odločijo za prijavo in si drznejo reči: »Za posilstvo ni nikoli kriva ženska. Nasilnež je tisti, ki bi se moral sramovati.«

Upamo, da vas bo Rdeča zora nad Mestom žensk dosegla. Upamo, da vam lahko poleg kritičnih uvidov ponudimo veselje ob doživetjih, ki nam bodo pomagala živeti, ne zgolj životariti v upanju na sonce, ki bo nekoč morda zares vzšlo nad Mestom žensk.

New zine: Togi nasmehi / Stiff Smiles

Tea Hvala
Togi nasmehi / Stiff Smiles
Ljubljana, 2013
A5, 32 pages, 7 b/w photos
in Slovene / English

A pesimmistic take on the flexibilisaton of labour, or an essay comparing what cannot be compared: long-term, collective and manual labour during the era of Yugoslav state socialism with, on the other hand, individual, flexible, and project-based intellectual work from home in postsocialist times.

With whom are you to take a picture, if you are a contract worker, if your jobs come and go? With whom, if your co-workers constantly change, and with whom, if you work from the employer’s home or even in your own room?
 
The flexible job, if she has one, dictates her sloppiness, distance, risk, mobility. Therefore, when she wishes for safety, she feels old. When she wishes for permanence and stability, she feels like a coward. When she commits herself to her work completely, she is regarded as naive. When she tries more than it is necessary, she gets the feeling of being foolish. When she tries to construct her own life story from countless fragments, she feels like she has nothing to lean on. Sometimes she feels like she doesn’t even exist. How is she to face all this uncertainty? 

Requests via tea.hvala at gmail.com. Trades welcome!

The zine features a modified version of the essay, first published in: Aleš Čar, Tanja Petrič (eds.): The State of Matters: Anthology of Perspectives & Reflections, Ljubljana, UMco, 2012, pp. 82-85 (Slovene version in: Aleš Čar, Tanja Petrič (ur.): Stanje stvari: Antologija Perspektiv & refleksij, Ljubljana, UMco, 2012, str. 82-85.)

Delavnica Svetovi drugih na Mladih rimah

Zadnja delavnica v seriji mnogih, ki so od leta 2007 potekale pod naslovom Svetovi drugih - v angleščini In Other Wor(l)ds - je potekala 27. junija 2013 v okviru Mladih rim - 6. festivala mlade neuveljavljene poezije ter ostalih ustvarjalnosti s podnaslovom Nobenih problemov, samo običajno jebanje. Mlade rime šest in nočem domov.

Vabilo na delavnico je na dnu objave, najprej pa edina za splet prepisana zgodba izpred Menze. Avtoric ne navajam na njihovo željo.

Ljubljana 4000
Ljubljana 4000, poletno popoldne. Poskusi spreminjanja podnebja v tem mestu niso uspeli. Tako kot v 21. stoletju so bili dnevi oblačni, soparni in zadušljivi. Še govoreči kip na medplanetarni transportni postaji se je znojil.

Mašenka Tereškova je prispela s teletransportno kabino št. 5/208. Pot je bila kratka, a vseeno je bila utrujena. Od nenadnega premika iz Moskve v Ljubljano je imela pritisk v ušesih. Pogledala je skozi okno postaje in zagledala sivo bitje, ki je v pozi sključenega misleca negibno klečalo na nizkem podstavku z napisom »Vprašaj me karkoli«.

Mašenka je šla h kipu in rekla: »Lačna sem. Kje v tem mestu imajo najboljše piroške?«

Kip je komaj opazno premaknil svoje kamnite ustnice. Zaslišal se je votel glas: »Ljubljana 4000, tukaj ni pirošk, že zdavnaj so jih umaknili s tržišča. Poskusite hamburger. Konec.«

Mašenka se je namrdnila. »Prekleta globalizacija. Se res ne da nikjer več kupiti nečesa, kar ne bi bilo ameriško?«

»Ljubljana 4000, vse je ameriško, samo Rusija še vztraja pri nacionalni hrani,« je kip odvrnil z istim brezizraznim tonom. »Toda Lord Americco bo uredil tudi ta problem. Konec.«

»Ne bo mu uspelo,« je bojevito rekla Mašenka. »Lord Russo je morda manj mogočen od Americca, toda za svojo državo se bo podal v vojno, če bo treba. Ne bomo se amerikanizirali.«

Kip je to preprosto preslišal. »Ljubljana 4000, bi morda raje obiskali novo plažo? Konec.«

»Plaža sredi Ljubljane?« se je začudila Mašenka.

»O ja, po ukazu Lorda Americca so prejšnji teden postavili novo plažo z umetnim morjem. Cene zelo ugodne. Konec.«

»Se na umetni plaži lahko tudi najém?«

»Počakajte. Procesiram. Konec.«

Mašenka je zamahnila z roko in se razgledala po okolici. Kentucky Fried GMO-Chicken, McDonalds' Galatic … še zanikrni kiosk na njeni levi se je kitil z ameriško zastavico, na kateri je bilo od leta 3528 dalje 250 zvezdic, torej vsa pomembnejša mesta v osončju.

Mašenka se je zasmejala, se potrkala po svojem neprebojnem jopiču in se odpravila h kiosku. Imenoval se je Ajda. Edina jed na meniju je bil pomfri iz orjaškega sladkega krompirja. Krompirčki so v dolžino merili do 40 centimetrov. Ogledni izvod na pultu je spominjal na šop velikanski slamic za koktejle. Paličaste krompirčke je obkrožala solata v mavričnih odtenkih.

»Dan,« je Maša pozdravila prodajalko na rolerjih. »En pomfri, prosim. Brez solate.«

Prodajalka jo je začudeno pogledala. Njene oči so se zavrtele nazaj in Mašenki se je za hip zdelo, da je v njih videla dolarski znak.

»Ne bo šlo, solata je obvezna, izbrati morate vsaj eno.«

»Pa kaj še!«

»Žal, takšni so predpisi.«

Mašenka je tiho zaklela in naročila vijolično solato.

»Odlična izbira,« je zaklicala prodajalka, »vijola vas bo pomladila!«

»Še tega se mi manjka,« je prhnila Mašenka.

Plačala je čisto preveč denarja in na hitro zbasala vase ogabno ameriško hrano. Ni se več spomnila, zakaj je sploh prišla v Ljubljano. Stožilo se ji je po ruski svobodi.

Ulice so bile prazne. Očitno so se res vsi odpravili na novo plažo. Lord Americco je znal pritegniti ljudi. Z vsemi njegovimi pogruntavščinami sploh ni bilo čudno, da je postal tako vpliven. Toda Mašenka je dobro vedela, da se bo njihov vladar temu uprl. In na klic iz vojske je bila pripravljena. Borila se bo za svojo državo, do zmage.

V teletransportni kabini, ki jo je pripeljala nazaj v Moskvo, se je odločila. V peti svetovni vojni bo zmagala Rusija. Izdelki po svetu ne bodo več ameriški. Ruski bodo.

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Delavnica skupinskega pisanja zgodb
Svetovi drugih 

Če misliš, da »ne znaš pisati«, »nimaš inspiracije« ali »zadostnih izkušenj«, te na delavnici čaka presenečenje: nadrealistična igra za skupinsko pisanje zgodb slastno trupelce bo pokopala vse tvoje zadržke. Kramp in lopato bo priskrbela Tea Hvala.

Vsakdo bo začel pisati svojo zgodbo in jo čez čas podal drugemu udeležencu. Ta jo bo prebral in nadaljeval po lastnem okusu. Zgodbe bodo krožile, dokler ne bomo vsi prispevali svoje pisave k vsem zgodbam. Če nas bo (na primer) šest, bo tako sočasno nastalo šest zgodb.

Delavnica se imenuje Svetovi drugih, ker je za skupinsko pisanje bolj kot tvoja nadarjenost ali izvirnost pomembno sodelovanje z ljudi, ki čutijo, razmišljajo in živijo drugače od tebe.

Udeležba brezplačna. Predhodne prijave sprejemamo na: mlada.menza@gmail.com [predmet: Svetovi drugih]
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Četrtek, 27. junij, od 16:00 do 19:00, Menza pri koritu, Ljubljana

Tea Hvala piše kratke zgodbe in eseje, bere feministično znanstveno fantastiko in v Ljubljani soorganizira festival Rdeče zore. Delavnice Svetovi drugih organizira od leta 2008.

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Organizacija: Kud Mreža in Menza pri koritu.

Cassandra's Riddle at Art Porn Week in Berlin

Photo: Nada Žgank / memento

Performance
Clytemnestra: Cassandra's Riddle
at Art Porn Week in Berlin on Thursday, June 13 at 21:45
Mindpirates Vereinsheim in the Red Room (Schlesiche Strasse 38, Haus F, 3rd courtyard)

In Ancient Greek epics, Clytemnestra, the queen of Mycenae, was routinely portrayed as the jealous and destructive femme fatale who felt little remorse for killing her husband, Agamemnon, and the Trojan princess Cassandra, his war prize and mistress.

In Cassandra's Riddle, Clytemnestra retells the tale in her own words, focusing on her relationship with Cassandra. In their last encounter, the Trojan prophetess, activist and erotic explorer spoke to her about the aural potentials of female sexuality in mind-teasing riddles – riddles Clytemnestra needs your help solving.


Clytemnestra (Mycenae, Ancient Greece) is Tea Hvala's stage persona, inspired by Christa Wolf's Cassandra (1983) and Marijs Boulogne's question, posed at the Tiny Buttons workshop, ran by Antonia Baehr and Keren Ida Nathan in Ljubljana in 2011. Since then, Tea has developed a few tiny amateur performances that focus on female masculinity and bikesexuality. She occasionally performs with the Rdeče zore (Red Dawns) impro theater group from Ljubljana.

Oddaja Sektor Ž: Queeristan, Seksizem med nami in Lean-In

Ekipa Sektorja Ž se je v preteklem mesecu udeležila dveh odličnih festivalov. Najprej bomo s Teo Hvala obiskale festival Queeristan in queerovski protest proti kriminalizaciji ljudi brez dokumentov v Amsterdamu. Teja Oblak se je udeležila debate in delavnice samo za ženske Seksizem med nami na Balkanskem anarhističnem sejmu knjig. Ida Hiršenfelder pa bo predelala pdf strani v knjigi Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead avtorice Sheryl Sandberg.

Report from Amsterdam's Queeristan festival and the Breaking Borders! protest on June 2nd with interviews and sounds by Rhythms of Resistance and Malmö's Fucked Up Kueers; followed by Teja Oblak's report from the discussion and workshop Sexism Among Us at Ljubljana's Anarchist Book Fair 2013 and Ida Hiršenfelder's review of Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. The show is in Slovene with interviews in English.

Sobota, 8. junij ob 12.00 na Radiu Študent. Posnetek oddaje bo naknadno objavljen tukaj.
Saturday, June 8th at 12.00 at Radio Študent. You can listen to the show here.

Collectively written erotic stories from Queeristan

All photos by YY

On June 1st, the 4th Queeristan festival in Amsterdam hosted my workshop in collective writing of porn, co-organized and co-facilitated by Bibliotheque Erotique's very own Lilly Miao. At the workshop, attended by twenty wonderfully relaxed people, we started by introducing ourselves with our porn name (invented at the spot), accompanied by a gesture and a sound that goes along with it. 

Olive, do you want to grease me? 
Yes, please. Blind-folded, on a trampoline with tarantulas crawling on my back and you biting my neck.

We continued by playing Definitions (or Question and Answer), a Surrealist game played in pairs, in which a question is written down and the paper is folded to conceal it from the next player who writes an answer. 

Do you think politics are sexy? 

Yes, nearly every day.

When will you be ready for the sexual riot against the government?
With full moon on a hot summer night, feeling turned upside down.

That is how we prepared for the climax: the collective writing of gender- and genre-fucking stories of our own. Again, we relied on Surrealist writing exercises; this time on Exquisite Corpse, a game for groups of four or five people in which each participant begins by writing her own story. Ten minutes later, he passes the piece to the next person. After reading it (or not), ze continues where the other person has stopped. The workshop is finished when everyone has written a part of every story.

Which place would you use for an erotic story to get an atmosphere that arouses you?
The experience was more intellectual-political than sexual, but it made me question sexuality in a different way.

The workshop ended with a reading and lots of hugs! Below, you can read some of our mistress-pieces. Check Bibliotheque Erotique's FB album for more photos, taken by YY. More stories are going to be published here and on Bibliotheque Erotique's webpage once we transcribe them. So, this is how we did it together ...

Question and Answer

How was it yesterday night?
Yes! I was drunk!

Tell me a fantasy that makes you feel guilty.
Spank me. Harder now.

If we were lovers, would you join me and my friends in a sexual private exploration?
Yes, definitely yes, would love to.

Do you remember how the first porn you watched made you feel?
For me, it’s arousing to sense the smell and sounds and touch of a person (in a situation with an erotic tension).

Describe the appearance of a person or object you fantasize about.
A woman making eyes at me across the room, we arrange to meet at midnight on a canal. I fuck her with my hand, we finish, we both walk away without speaking.

Did you ever have an erotic fantasy with your mother?
If I ever have a penis, I will explore all kinds of territories that I can’t explore now.

How would you like to have a sexy dinner with me?
With my tongue.

If I were an orange, how would you like to eat me?
Standing in front of a church, clearly using protection to make it safe.

What kind of food would you be for your lover or someone who you would like to eat?
Yes, of course. Several times, especially on public holidays and my birthday.

What has been your most surprising sexual experience?
I’d like to play with them while they play cello in an empty auditorium.

Which colour do your latest lovers tend to wear most?
I would like to try them all.

What was the best sex you ever had?
I would go for mellow mostly, aggressive occasionally.

What is your secret fantasy, if you know it?
Yes, please, take me to your secret garden and show me your flowers of passion.

Would you get naked on the street in front of everyone? What would you tell the people around you?
It was on the train, we both got naked and just stared at each other for an hour without touching while all other passengers were masturbating.

Do you belong to any religion? Do your sexual and spiritual practices intersect?
Because I like to sell myself.

Why did you become interested in spirituality and sex?
Because I want to push it further.

Where would you like to be touched?
In a mountain shelter, during a cold night.

Would you like to come with me to a waterfall to become wet in two seconds?
Yes, slowly, slowly, like a lazy snake on a hot summer day.

Where do you want me to start touching you?
In an old theatre, we are naked, reading for each other.

What kind of role playing games would you like to play?
Long black smooth hair, elf ears, and lips thirsty for kisses.

Exquisite Corpse

At the market - I
You were strolling around in your boots – it was midday and the sun was bright – and you stepped in front of me. I was standing behind my market stand with fruits and I was getting nervous. You looked right into my eyes and asked for a pound of strawberries.

“Why always strawberries,” I asked, “don't you wanna try mango?”

“Oh, mango, yeah, I like mango! My boyfriend actually named me Mango.”

Yellow skinned, sweet sometimes, stingy on the tongue, the taste hard core deep … Mango!

At this point, I thought: How should I eat the mango? By peeling off the skin of the fruit or by cutting through the flesh, to the cone, bit by bit?

“Hmmm, mango – yes please, a mango," I cried out loud and joined him behind the stand. I was holding that juicy fruit firmly in my hand.

“Can you cut it for me? I need to taste it badly.”

He took a knife, made a slit all around the mango, handling the fruit with the utmost care. Then his fingers pressed the two halves in their tight grip, stretching the slit open to uncover the hard pit. He discarded it. As he was handing me the cut fruit, his fingers were drenched in fresh sticky mango juice.

For a brief moment, our hands touched. We looked at each others eyes deeply – and kissed.

Fuck the mango!

That kiss was like dope. I couldn't think anymore. We were both hard and turned on. We were both lost in our intimacy, there was nothing else anymore around. He pulled my pants off and started touching me. With my boot, I pushed him to the market stand, took his pants off and fucked him.

It was intense, people were shocked and stunned, and they stopped moving. The atmosphere was super-sexual; it was like we had spread a sexual magic powder in the air. After a few minutes, the whole market turned into an orgy market!

























At the market - II
It is a rainy day in 2030, and I mean a rainy day. There is an open street market in the center of Amsterdam. The fish seller will usually stand at one of the river banks, with his collection of fish – especially on a rainy day. He will walk with his smelly fishy boots to welcome his customers.

All the fish are naked. I mean skin open naked, stretched on a 2030’s display table. They are in plates that look like Italian fish beds.

I ask for a pinkrosebudfish.

“Look how fresh it is, it just came out of the gen-tech facilities,” he says.

He takes his sharp knife and makes a quick incision along the fish belly which blossoms, revealing its fuchsia interiors.

I am wet.

He offers me a piece of that raw flesh and I immediately grab it and put it in my mouth. I close my eyes while chewing, and visualise the perfect dinner that fish could make; the herbs, the temperature, the wine. I open my eyes and glaze him so hard that even the dead fish feel the tension.

Was it a dream? I saw the fish jumping onto each other. Or were they dancing?

Suddenly, I saw myself lying under the fish, wearing nothing but my body skin, and the market person moving the fish up and down, from head to toe, over my body again and again.

This time, it felt so intense that I shouted out loud: “WAAAAW!”

Or was it just a dream?

At the market - III
It was the afternoon of May 2nd, a warm day at the street market. I wanted to make Gemsta: stuffed tomatoes and peppers with rice, baked in the oven. I was looking for big green peppers and juicy red tomatoes. The smell of the spices and the fruits in combination with the sweat of the people made the atmosphere at the market very attractive.

I felt myself almost fainting, and my knees got weak. I almost fell.

Two hands held me tight but very gently from behind to break my fall and I heard your voice saying: “Hoppla, are you okay?”

I turned around and saw you looking at me; and actually, then I really wanted to faint. Your lips were smiling and I wanted to get kissed all over; I wanted to get sucked into your mouth. I forgot all about my cooking plans.

Your mouth today, with hot-red lipstick, not my favorite color, but it is watery as usual. I want to suck those full-fat meat lips like I sucked your other two lips a while ago. What did they taste like? I forgot. But it doesn’t matter anymore. I will explore them again.

A fresh taste, today, here, at the market, in front of strangers passing by. Let me get wild with these lips; forget about the peppers, these hot-red peppers are never going to be on my plate again. I will put you on my main course tonight.

My daydreaming was making me lose control. I felt my body was shape-shifting right there in the middle of the market. My limbs now exposed were curling into new textures, and acquiring a taste of their own. They now were standing there as plump juicy tomatoes and heaps of fragrant red peppers.

Passers-by got all curious and excited by my transformation. Hands were touching my vegetable skin. Noses smelt my tangy perfume. Fingers were pressing my juices.

Good money was spent to buy me, piece by piece.

Once dropped off, I will end up carefully heated, smothered and greased, and tasted by the lusty velvet of your lips.


At the bike shop - I
Masha, the former bike race champion from Ostblok, entered the bike repair shop on Queeristan Street. It was to be her first day at work there, and it didn’t look good: the shop seemed abandoned and dusty. Moreover, there were pictures of current bike champions on the walls.

She heard noises in the back of the shop. She followed them and found what she was always looking for: Boris’s dog! Since she always wanted to be in one of Boris’s sexual fantasies, she decided to return at midnight wearing nothing but what she was born in! And she did.

When she came back at night, she noticed that she was not alone. Boris was at the shop as well. He did not notice Masha because he was too busy. Not for nothing he has a dog with such a big cock. He was obviously using it intensely in his everyday practice. They were intensely busy with a blow job in a 69 pose.

Masha was upset. There was no place for her in this setting.

“What are you doing here? Who are you?” a harsh voice interrupted her observations.

“I, i, i ... I’m sorry, I returned to fuck Boris’s dog but I see they are busy.”

“Oh, I see, maybe I can help you,” the person grabbed Masha’s hand. “Will you follow me?”

“Ok.”

They entered a room that was totally dark and smelled of animals.

“Let me introduce you to ... FickFackFuck – my horse. Do you like him?”

Masha did not answer. She immediately went to the wooden construction and bent over.


At the bike shop - II
I open the doors of FickFackFucks Bike Repair Shop and I am already trembling with excitement. The thought of FFF biting my neck makes me wet in three seconds. I let my finger slip in my slit to feel my wetness.

“Hello Masha, what are you doing? How are you? Great to see you,” FFF says, unzipping her greasy jacket.

“Huh!”

“So it is!” says FFF and slides her dirty black fingers into Masha’s pants.

Masha leans back on the front tire of a bike in repair, standing upside down. That is, the bike is upside down. She grabs the handles and starts to grind against the bike wheel that sinks in her butt crack while FFF’s fingers’ reach her from the front, creating an alchemic mix of grease and juice.

In the meantime, Boris was jaggin’ wildly around the corner. Not just jaggin’, but what is called French Jagging. The wet nose of his dog with a big cock was just next to his dick, which was about to explode. Moreover, the dog obviously came there by bike, which was broken and still had to be fixed.

But more about that in Part II.

Please, get back to us soon. We love U.


At the bike shop - III
It was a cold winter night in Slovakia. Masha was reaching her highest point of dissatisfaction and desperation in her sexuality while Fick Fack Fook was fickfackfooking Chache wildly, untimely.

As Boris was filming the beautiful mass, he found a way to help Masha.

“Do you want a glass of water?” Boris asked Masha.

“So sweet. What do you want back for it?”

“Help me to get satisfaction,” Boris said.

“Can I help you?”Masha asked and turned red.

“No, I totally don’t want you,” answered Boris.

“You know,” said Masha, “I have a solution. In our writing group, there is someone called Arabic Boy. He would definitely be happy to help you. I will go and get him.”

In a minute, Arabic Boy appeared and did his classic hip movement. This time, Boris turned red but there was no way back.

“Are you looking for satisfaction, Boris?” said Arabic Boy.

He came closer without touching Boris. Then, he sat down behind him and whispered in his ear:

“What does satisfaction mean to you?”

As Arabic Boy breathed in his neck, Boris felt goose bumps spread all over his body.

Masha was filming them. She didn’t have a microphone, so FFF provided the soundtrack with his “Ooohs” and “Aaaahs”.

Arabic Boy and Boris got tangled and tangled more, and when they screamed in satisfaction, Masha knew that – at least for them – the cold winter was over.

The film screening at Queeristan Film Festival 2050 was a success. The audience was hot, wet and loud.


At the bike shop - IV
It is the first wonderful summer day, and there are lots of visitors at the bike shop. It is Saturday and everyone wants to go cycling. A long line forms in front of the shop while Mozart’s music is heard from the inside.

It is very hot and people are getting irritated.

The guy who works at the shop goes to the toilet and doesn’t come back.

Someone claims s*he has to skip the line. S*he has to bring some new tubes and chains to the shop owner.

“All right, all right, go on.”

“Thank you,” says s*he and enters a room at the back of the store.

“Hey Boris, I got you some new tubes and chains.”

“Hey Chachi, that’s great, just leave them there, I’m busy now.”

But s*he does not leave the room.

“Uhm, what are you waiting for?” says Boris.

“I wanted to get your attention for a minute. Look at me.”

Boris puts down his tools and his eyes meet Chachi’s. Only then, he notices the metallic sparkles in her_his eyes, flying in his direction with the speed of a 3-gear bike. He is pulled towards the visitor and finds himself on his knees, licking the wet tubes in Chachi’s strong hands.

He is entranced. When he opens his eyes, he notices the customers. They have entered the shop and formed a circle around them. They touch themselves and moan loudly while Mozart’s music disappears in the background.

You might think this is the end of the story – but not yet!

Everyone was very patient. It was going in the direction nobody would expect. Fireworks everywhere, everyone was taking part in this Shortbus! A drop of Eternity!

The end (that would always continue)!

Workshop in Collective Writing of Independent Porn at Queeristan in Amsterdam

A Workshop in Collective Writing of Independent Porn
by Tea Hvala and Bibliotheque Erotique
at Queeristan Festival in Amsterdam
http://queeristan.org/2013/05/21/workshop-erotic-writing/

Time: Saturday, June 1st from 12:00 to 16:00
Location: Op De Valreep


At the workshop, we are going to play with the rigid conventions of genre and gender and experiment with producing (semi)pornographic writing that turn us on. We are going to rely on our imagination, our individual erotic fantasies and collective writing techniques in which strange, sometimes humorous, sometimes poetic, and sometimes scary conjunctions arise from, so it seems, pure chance.

We won’t wait for inspiration. We won’t worry about controlling the narrative either. We are going to put aside individual artistic value and try out several collective approaches that can teach us to let go, trust our co-writers as well as our imagination – and our ability as writers.

The workshop is going to start with a short discussion on how we can reclaim the right to sexual pleasure as we like it, and the beauty of bodies like yours and mine. We will talk about mutual consent and ethics, and the reasons why our fantasies can never be politically correct, even if our porn is – from a feminist point of view – politically correct simply because queer people with queer bodies are in it having queer sex.

We will continue by playing several short Surrealist games in order to relax and prepare for the climax: the collective writing of gender- and genre-fucking stories of our own.

Language: English
Open to all genders, no previous knowledge necessary
You can register for the workshop at the info booth during the festival. Max. 15 people

Tea Hvala is a sociologist, writer, translator, editor, organiser and feminist science fiction fan with a MA in Gender Studies. She lives and works in Ljubljana where she co-hosts a monthly radio show Sektor Z, co-organises the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns and participates in Red Dawn’s theatre performance group. Since 2008, she has been facilitating workshops in collaborative writing of feminist-queer science fiction In Other Wor(l)ds in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands. Her recently edited books include Svetovi drugih (KUD Anarhiv, 2010) and Rdecke razsajajo! (KUD Mreza, 2011).

Bibliothèque érotique is a literary performance group that entices its listeners to think, fantasize and talk about sex and sexuality. We do this by mixing fashion, performance art and erotic literature.

Anthology presentation 'Import-Export-Transport' - May 23rd, Vienna

Cordially invited to the presentation of anthology


IMPORT – EXPORT – TRANSPORT: 
Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion


edited by Sushila Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack and Katrin Lasthofer.

Together with Vendula Esteban Wiesnerová (Bratislava), Tea Hvala (Ljubljana) and Marty Huber (Vienna), we want to pick up some core topics of the anthology. The themes, among others, are the entanglements of queer activism, theory and research, the challenges of translation, as well as strategies within current LGBTiQ politics.


Thursday, May 23 2013 at 6.30 p.m, Pfeilgasse 33, 1080 Vienna ("Schenke" /Basement)
[Please note: The "Schenke" is not fully wheelchair accessible. Please contact us for further information.]   

http://gender.univie.ac.at/publikationen
http://www.zaglossus.eu/ImportExportTransport.htm

About the Volume
Twenty years after the emergence of “queer” as a political concept, the contributions to this anthology discuss the radical potential of queer theory and activism within different spatial, cultural, and socio-political contexts. Both the term “queer” as well as initial concepts of queer critique are not only closely connected to the English language but also to the Anglo-American socio-political context. Nevertheless, queer has traveled a lot since its emergence in the 1990s. Therefore, this collection explores how and for what purposes the term “queer” is and has been appropriated within different settings and locations, such as academia, activism, and popular culture. The volume opens up a space for trans-regional, intersectional, trans-disciplinary, and genre-transgressing exchanges about queer theory, queer critique, and queer activism.

The anthology is a collection of interdisciplinary articles, essays, and artwork by: Bini Adamczak and Mike Laufenberg; Sanja Milutinović Bojanić; Petra Sußner; Erzsébet Barát; Ivana Pražić; Robert Kulpa, Joanna Mizielińska, and Agata Stasińska; Cornelia Möser; Vendula (Esteban) Wiesnerová; Tea Hvala; Sanja Kajinić; Hongwei Bao; Nicole Alecu de Flers; Leopold Lippert; Kateřina Kolářová; Jack Halberstam; Hanna Hacker; Johanna Schaffer (with/out Vlatka Frketić); Marty Huber; Persson Perry Baumgartinger; Anthony Clair Wagner.

“IMPORT – EXPORT – TRANSPORT: Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion” is the first volume of the series “challenge GENDER: Contemporary challenges of_within Gender Theory” edited by the Gender Research Office at the University of Vienna. This new series presents contemporary theories, discourses, and research within the field of transdisciplinary Gender Studies, including Feminist Epistemology, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Science Studies, Gender & Science Technology Studies. Central to the series are critical approaches to gender relations and other power structures in the context of globalization. Moreover, “challenge GENDER” presents analytical works that reflect changes over time, and attempt to think sex, gender, and sexuality in new ways.

Literarni večer Ko beseda postane ime - 23. maj, Ljubljana

Okna kratke zgodbe 2 z Miho Mazzinijem

Vabljeni na

literarni večer
Ko beseda postane ime

Zaključno branje udeležencev literarnih ustvarjalnic Inštituta IRIU (Okna poezije 2 in Okna kratke zgodbe 1), izbranih na natečaju. Okna v pesniško in prozno ustvarjanje bodo za vas odprli: Urška Aplinc, Andreja Borščak, Anja Cimerman, Mitja Drab, Klemen Godec, Katarina Gomboc, Tea Hvala, Aljaž Koprivnikar, Rok Korošec, Jana Kolarič, Iztok Majhenič, Anja Naglič, Klara Otorepec, Ana Svetel, Kaja Teržan in Aja Zamolo.

Posebna gosta večera bosta mentorja literarnih ustvarjalnic Miha Mazzini in Peter Semolič ter Ana Geršak, vodja spremljevalnega programa ustvarjalnic.

Četrtek, 23. maj 2013 ob 19. uri v kavarni Union v Ljubljani
Vstop prost

Inštitut IRIU (Facebook)
Fotografije z delavnic (FB)

Oddaja Sektor Ž: Ponovna prisvojitev jezikov!

I O I O I (Italija)

V aprilski ediciji Sektorja Ž se Mirna B. pogovarja z ex-YU feminističnimi skupinami, ki so na pobudo Rdečih zor marca letos srečale v Ljubljani. Sledi intervju Ide H. z Aljo Isaković, eno od pobudnic brezplačnih delavnic odprtokodnih programov za ženske programerke in tiste, ki želijo to postati. Rails Girls 31. maja organizirajo delavnico na računalniškem faksu v Mariboru. Odpravile smo se tudi na petkov Noise festival v Menzo pri koritu, kjer smo prisluhnile milozvočjem italijanske performerke I O I O I , Teja O. pa je pripravila poziv proti seksizmu na vstajah in intervjuvala Renato Šribar o neseksistični rabi jezika. Nazadnje sledil še nabor relevantnih novic.

Na sporedu v soboto, 13. aprila 2013, ob 12.00 na Radiu Študent. Posnetek za zamudnike.

Nova številka revije Borec: Kaj je ostalo od feministične levice?

V novi, 690.-693. številki revije za zgodovino, antropologijo in književnost Borec je izšel slovenski prevod prispevkov z okrogle mize Kaj je ostalo od feministične levice?, ki je potekala na konferenci REDaktura: transjugoslavenski feminizmi i žensko naslijeđe v Zagrebu oktobra 2011.

Okroglo mizo je pripravila in vodila Jelena Petrović
Sodelovale so Nadežda Čačinovič, Vjollca Krasniqi, Lilijana Burcar, Adriana Zaharijević, Vesna Leskošek, Jasmina Husanović in Mireja Forel

Iz uvoda Jelene Petrović: Sodobni levičarski feminizem je politični odgovor na razmere, v katerih živimo, zato je naslov okrogle mize – Kaj je ostalo od feministične levice? – provokativen. Ob njem se zastavljajo tri pomembna vprašanja. Prvo je, kako zgodovinsko in politično sploh misliti pojugoslovanski prostor. V tem okviru je izkušnjo jugoslovanskega feminizma pomembno umestiti v čas, obenem pa jo moramo, če nočemo, da ostane zgolj zgodovinska kategorija, posodobiti. Znanje, ki izhaja iz te izkušnje, ta splet idej, se ne prenaša le od starejših generacij na mlajše, temveč tudi v obratni smeri. Lahko nam pomaga odgovoriti na vprašanje, kako preoblikovati (po)jugoslovanski feminizem v gibanje, ločeno od politik, ki nam jih podtikajo s projektizacijo feminizma, njegovim menedžmentom in drugimi praksami, ki so feminizem v tem prostoru že razdelile na aktivizem, teorijo, umetnost in druge feminizme oziroma feministične načine vstopanja v javni prostor. Drugo vprašanje je, ali govorimo o feminizmu ali o feminizmih. Kateri feminizmi so aktualni v pojugoslovanskem prostoru, kateri so pomembni za nas? Zadnje vprašanje pa je, kaj feminizmu ponujajo sodobne levičarske politike in kako se feminizem sklicuje nanje.

Zvočni posnetek (v BSH jezikih in angleščini) okrogle mize lahko poslušate na spletni strani interaktivne razstave sodobne umetnosti Bring In Take Out - Living Archive, ki je potekala sočasno s konferenco.

Predavanje "Težave z uvažanjem, prevajanjem in uvajanjem 'queera' v postsocialistični prostor"

Vabljene, vabljeni

na predavanje Tee Hvala
Težave z uvažanjem, prevajanjem in uvajanjem 'queera' v postsocialistični prostor
pri izbirnem predmetu dr. Romana Kuharja "Queer perspektive spola in spolnosti"

v ponedeljek, 25. marca ob 16:20, v učilnici št. 30 v kleti Filozofske fakultete v Ljubljani

Svetovi drugih v mestni knjižnici - zgodbe

Kako se bomo zmenili za temo pisanja?
Skuhali bomo ričet.
Čimbolj počasi, vsak dan po malem. 

Zgodbe v tej spletni knjižici so nastale na delavnici skupinskega pisanja proze Svetovi drugih, ki je potekala 12. in 13. marca 2013 v Knjižnici Otona Župančiča v Ljubljani v organizaciji Borze znanja. 

 

Zakaj Svetovi drugih? Ker je za skupinsko pisanje bolj kot tvoja nadarjenost ali izvirnost pomembno to, da se trudiš razumeti pisanje ljudi, ki čutijo, razmišljajo in živijo drugače od tebe.

Če bi na Zemlji pristali vesoljci in bi skupaj malo več razmišljali, bi bile vse tri zelo zadovoljne.

Nada Čučnik Majcen, Tajda Liplin Šerbetar, Kristina Rajgelj in Tea Hvala smo pisale po metodi izvrstno trupelce, ki so jo razvili nadrealisti. Vsaka je začela pisati svojo zgodbo in jo čez čas podala drugi udeleženki. Ta jo je prebrala in nadaljevala po lastnem okusu. Zgodbe so krožile, dokler nismo vse prispevale k vsem zgodbam. Gospa Nada se je udeležila samo prvega srečanja, Kristina pa se nam je pridružila tik pred koncem, zato so nastale le tri zgodbe namesto štirih.

Preden smo se lotile pisanja zgodb, smo se ogrevale s krajšimi vajami. V prvi je ena od udeleženk zapustila sobo, medtem ko je druga povedala tretji udeleženki nekaj o sebi - svojo pravo ali izmišljeno biografijo. Ko se je prva udeleženka vrnila v sobo, ji je tretja povedala biografijo druge v prvi osebi. Potem so se vloge zamenjale.

O čem govorijo tvoje najljubše knjige?
O prijateljih, ki gredo kampirat.

Po tej vaji v vživljanju v drugega smo se lotile vprašanj in odgovorov. V tej igri (za dve ali tri osebe) ena na list papirja napiše vprašanje, druga in tretja pa - ne da bi vprašanje sploh videli - napišeta odgovor. Na podoben način poteka tudi igra pogojna poved (ali silogizem, če jo igrajo trije).

Če bo v nedeljo sonce in si bomo izmislile novo zgodbo, bo naša knjiga zelo dobra in uspešna.

Pisale smo v brezplačnem odprtokodnem spletnem orodju Booktype, ki je pred vami. Namenjeno je skupinskemu pisanju, urejanju in izdajanju knjig v formatih za tisk na zahtevo in e-formatih za večino bralnikov.

Kaj se bo zgodilo v četrtek?
Sneg se bo talil, kosi bodo peli ob petih zjutraj, mularja se bo igrala na ulici.
Sonce ne bo svetilo, zato bomo žalostni.

Uživajte v branju!

Delavnica Svetovi drugih v KOŽ, 12.-13. marec 2013

Literarna delavnica Borze znanja

Svetovi drugih

12.-13. marec, ob 17.00, Knjižnica Otona Župančiča, računalniška učilnica (1. nadstropje)

Meniš, da »ne znaš pisati«, »nimaš inspiracije« ali »zadostnih izkušenj«? Potem te na delavnici čaka veliko presenečenje, saj bodo vsi ti zadržki odpadli. Za to bo poskrbelo izvrstno trupelce: literarna igra za skupinsko pisanje zgodb, ki so jo razvili nadrealisti.

Vsakdo bo začel pisati svojo zgodbo in jo čez čas podal drugemu udeležencu. Ta jo bo prebral in nadaljeval po lastnem okusu. Zgodbe bodo krožile, dokler ne bomo vsi prispevali svoje pisave k vsem zgodbam. Če nas bo (na primer) šest, bo tako sočasno nastalo šest zgodb.


Delavnica Svetovi drugih, Utrecht, 2012, foto: TH

Na prvem srečanju bomo spoznali literarno igro izvrstno trupelce in brezplačno odprtokodno spletno orodje Booktype, ki je namenjeno skupinskemu pisanju, urejanju in izdajanju knjig v formatih za tisk na zahtevo in e-formatih za večino bralnikov. Večino časa bomo posvetili pisanju zgodb.

Na drugem srečanju bomo prebrali napisano, zgodbe po potrebi uredili in lektorirali, jih izvozili v poljuben format ter objavili na spletu.

Delavnica se imenuje Svetovi drugih, ker je za skupinsko pisanje bolj kot tvoja nadarjenost ali izvirnost pomembno to, da se trudiš razumeti pisanje ljudi, ki čutijo, razmišljajo in živijo drugače od tebe.

Delavnico bo vodila Tea Hvala.

Prijave na tel. št. 01 600 13 20 ali e-naslov: ljubljana@borzaznanja.si

Oddaja Sektor Ž: Veselo praznovanje dneva žensk

Drage feministke, ženske, žene in punce, ki se dnevno soočate s subtilnimi ali vulgarnimi oblikami šovinizma, mizoginih izpadov in diskriminacije na podlagi spola: ekipa Sektorja Ž vam želi veselo, zabavno in ekscesno praznovanje mednarodnega dneva žensk!

Tekste si bomo podložile z glasbo Nataše Muševič oziroma Dot, ki bo danes zvečer v Menzi z globokimi basi pretresla naša telesa. Pregledale bomo dogajanje v okviru Mesta žensk, ki je v minulem tednu priredil gledališko delavnico Herstory of Bra and Knife z mentoricama Neno Močnik in Ano Rokvić-Pinterič. Prebrale bomo javno pismo Barbare Korun z naslovom Ni vse zlato, kar se sveti, v katerem razkriva šovinistično strukturo Društva slovenskih pisateljev.

Sledijo utrinki iz 14. mednarodnega feminističnega in queerovskega festivala Rdeče zore: izsek s predavanja Belme Bećirbašić v klubu Tiffany in izjavo Karmen Špiljak iz kolektiva VE-ZA o interaktivni razstavi Bod’ Moja v Galeriji Alkatraz, iz katere je tudi naslovna ilustracija. Glasbene predahe bomo črpale iz starejšega materiala Wande & Nova deViatorja, ki bosta 4. aprila izdala svoj glasbeni prvenec. Nazadnje pa si bomo jezike obrusile na podelitvi Bodeče Neže, nagrade za najbolj seksistično in mizogino izjavo desetletja.

Oddajo sta pripravili Ida Hiršenfelder in Teja Oblak, posnetek pa bo z zamudo objavljen na spletni strani Radia Študent. 

Izjava Rdečih zor ob 4. vseslovenski ljudski vstaji

Foto: Maja Kraljič

Festivalska infotočka Rdečih zor v Galeriji Mizzart se bo v soboto, 9. marca, ob 14.00 spremenila v zbirno mesto za feministične, lezbične in ženske iniciative, ki se želijo skupaj udeležiti Četrte vseslovenske ljudske vstaje. Ob 14:30 se bomo preselile na dvorišče AKC Metelkova mesto, od koder se bomo odpravile na Kongresni trg. Tam se bomo ob 15:00 pridružile antikapitalističnemu bloku.

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Izjava Rdečih zor ob 4. vseslovenski ljudski vstaji

Rdeče zore se 9. marca pridružujemo 4. vstaji, pri čemer zavračamo seksistična gesla, ki smo jih opazile na vseh dosedanjih protestih. Zavračamo tudi trditve, da so zahteve po spolni enakosti v trenutnih razmerah »preveč partikularne«, saj smo prepričane, da bi morala biti odprava vseh oblik razlikovanja sestavni del mednarodnega boja proti kapitalističnemu izkoriščanju, ki je obenem boj za boljši svet.

Zagovarjamo feministično politiko: emancipacijo vseh, enakost za vse in solidarnosti med vsemi ljudi. Zagovarjamo feminizem, ki bo svoje univerzalne zahteve postavljal v imenu žensk, vse dokler ne bo odpravljena ekonomska neenakost, ki temelji prav na spolnem razlikovanju, še posebej na nevidnem in neplačanem delu žensk, kamor spada tudi skrb za druge: za otroke, bolne, starejše – in podplačane moške delavce.

Na preteklih vstajah smo se pridružile antikapitalističnemu bloku, ker je z željo in zahtevo po temeljnih ekonomskih spremembah še najbližji feministični politiki, pri čemer poudarjamo, da je ekonomski sistem in kulturo potrebno spreminjati sočasno. Dokler bomo sprejemali in zvesto obnavljali patriarhalno kulturo, si ne bomo mogli zamisliti boljšega sveta.

Zavračamo tudi nacionalistične težnje po omejevanju vstajniških zahtev na državljane in državljanke Republike Slovenije. Prvič zato, ker v tej državi živi in dela veliko ljudi, ki državljanstva zaradi institucionaliziranega rasizma ne morejo dobiti, ali pa jim je bilo, tako kot izbrisanim, prav zato odvzeto. Drugič zato, ker ekonomskih težav, s katerimi se soočamo, ne moremo rešiti na nacionalni ravni, saj izvirajo iz globalnega neoliberalnega gospostva, ki dopušča zgolj in samo prost pretok blaga. Ljudje po vsem svetu se upiramo varčevanju na ramenih najšibkejših, ker smo prepričani, da ima vsakdo pravico do prostega gibanja in zato, ker se ima vsakdo pravico ustaliti – tam, kjer sploh lahko živi človeka dostojno življenje.

Nenazadnje se upiramo poskusom poenotenja vstajniškega gibanja. Prepričane smo, da je zahteva po homogenizaciji nasilnejša in nevarnejša od posameznikov in skupin, ki jih precejšen del protestnikov, z mediji in oblastjo vred, skuša diskreditirati kot “nasilne” samo zato, ker vzklikajo: “Ograja mora pasti!”

V branje priporočamo:
Javno pismo Barbare Korun “Ni vse zlato, kar se sveti” (6. marec 2013)
Izjava Vstaniških socialnih delavk Ograja mora past? (Facebook, 20. 2. 2013)
Manifest skupine Nič brez nas!, naslovljen Nič več brez nas žensk! (30. 1. 2013)
Zbornik Feminizam – politika jednakosti za sve (uredila Jelena Petrović in Damir Arsenijević, izdal Fond B92, Beograd, 2011)

Zemljevid AKC Metelkova mesto

Oddaja Sektor Ž: Vstaja traja!

Komentiramo skromno število žensk in feminističnih stališč na javni tribuni v organizaciji DSP 31. januarja v Cankarjevem domu in poslušamo svetli izjemi, govora Barbare Rajgelj in Darje Zaviršek, ki je govorila v imenu nove ženske iniciative Nič več brez nas žensk! Z vami bomo delile tudi svoje vtise z ustanovnega sestanka te skupine. Sledijo utrinki pogovora z umetnico Zvonko T. Simčič ob njenem novem projektu Tiha moč/Sledi, ob koncu oddaje pa poslušamo indijsko feministko, profesorico književnosti in pesnico Mamto Sagar. Govorila bo o okoliščinah nastanka njene pesmi Dharma/Adharma: o medverskih bojih, ki se v Indiji zanašajo na ginocidno taktiko; na skupinska posilstva in uboje žensk. Ob tem komentiramo pravkar sprejete strožje kazni za spolno nasilje in nadlegovanje v Indiji.

V soboto, 9. februarja 2013, ob 12.00 na Radiu Študent. Posnetek za zamudnice.