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Welcome to the debrief of ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’ In the epilogue to Swift’s newest work, she sets the stage by assuming the role of “The Chairman” presenting her “findings” to us, her fellow tortured poets—31 tracks that serve as evidence for a plea of “temporary insanity.” Fueled by a fleeting encounter and an illicit decade-long affair of love and poetry, The Tortured Poets Department dissects both the…
In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.
Humorvoll, kritisch und voller Verzweiflungswut erzählt das Stück #Motherfuckinghood im Berliner Ensemble von prekären Geburtsbedingungen, Verantwortungs- und Schuldgefühlen und dem schädlichen Stereotyp der guten Mutter.
Wie anspruchsvoll muss Feminismus sein? Warum werden Barbie und Poor Things von der Kritik so besonders gründlich kritisiert? Unsere Autorin findet, auch leichte Unterhaltung darf kein männliches Privileg sein.
“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, in front and behind, above and below are not separated, remote, out of touch. Our all intermingled. Without…
Something happened to queerness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-normative desire and embodiment as “queer” – with the advent of the internet, queer communities also became digitised. Our knowledge and our intimacy is now unthinkable without vast transatlantic circuits and corporate filters.
The concept of the sea—extending infinitely everywhere all the time—and of the islands—sovereign worlds which nonetheless affect other such islands—emerges as a world structure which becomes a sanctuary from singularity to all creatures it carries.
“Violence ruptures the sky in half— It shatters every world that’s in the making of a map of light. I fall fast between drops of blood. With precision I cut into my skin and sever the sun from me.”
Das Thema häusliche Gewalt gewinnt zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Dass auch die psychische Gewalt und ihre schwerwiegenden Folgen dabei eine enorme Rolle spielen, wird selten gesehen.
