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I had spent my life wondering whether broken love could be mended when I saw my parents drift apart, from secret dances in the moonlit kitchen to becoming strangers, violently and abruptly fighting for divorce. Like a glued-up vase. I refused to see it then, but a fractured vase still exposes its porcelain fragility even after it has been reassembled. Even with the finest glue and the hands…
“Part of me knew it was impossible to come close. Just this one time I wish I didn’t need the fire because the sky is dark around me already.”
As we are approaching October—the holy month of Halloween in the most beautiful season of the year—we have compiled a list of songs which give us that autumn feeling of crisp, smokey air, warmly lit living rooms sheltered from the October rain, and an entire world turned into poetry.
Writer Priya Nair explains that Atwood’s novel draws on the historical oppression of Black enslaved women and applies it to fictional white women.
René Polleschs “Die Gewehre der Frau Kathrin Angerer” ist eine andere Inszenierung der Wirklichkeit.
Four girls disappear in time and rely on the help of their future selves to fight in a time war.
“Er war ein weiteres Messer, ich konnte es fühlen. Ich kümmerte mich nicht. Ich dachte: gib mir die Klinge. Manche Dinge sind es wert, dass man für sie Blut vergießt.”
Director Taika Waititi enjoys playing with notions of masculinity in this latest outing of the franchise which sees the macho hero eclipsed by a female character of equal standing.
“The threats of violence online replicated the very real violence Black people regularly experienced offline at the hands of non-Black people all over the world. Black queer and trans people, particularly those who identified as woman or femme, made easy targets on Tumblr due to always being easy and constant targets offline. And there were other forms of misogynoir…”
“Wenn wir als queere Menschen ohnehin schon von der Kirche und einem erheblichen Teil der Gesellschaft als Sünder*innen betrachtet werden, können wir genauso gut das Narrativ übernehmen und in einer selbstermächtigenden Weise umgestalten. Wir wissen schließlich wie befreiend es ist, sich über die erlernte Scham zu erheben und zu sündigen. Warum uns dann nicht gleich der tödlichsten aller Todsünden hingeben und im Stillen sowie in aller Öffentlichkeit unsere…
