Lisa Kämling

Ein Rückschritt vom Fortschritt? – Warum analoge Medien wieder in Mode kommen

In Zeiten der konstanten Digitalisierung scheinen analoge Medien einen besonderen Charme auszustrahlen. Unsere Autorin Lisa schreibt darüber, warum sich immer mehr Menschen bewusst für das Ältere entscheiden.

Von Samhain zu Halloween

Von Samhain zu Halloween: Die Geschichte des Gruselevents reicht weit zurück. In ihrem neusten Artikel geht unsere Autorin den historischen Ursprüngen des Festes nach.

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Warum eigentlich Pride? — Von der tödlichsten aller Todsünden

"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 ...

Seit einem Jahr habe ich plötzlich Coming Outs.

“Coming Outs sind nur ein Teil der Geschichte, in der sich meine Queerness und meine Behinderung immer wieder auf unerwartete Art und Weise verweben.”

The Queer City: How to Design More Inclusive Public Space

In the context of rising patterns of hate crime, the idea of “queering” public space might offer a solution. Through interviews with over 120 academics, designers, activists and other ...

Ferrars & Fields DIGITAL EXHIBITION

“You will never touch me again.”

"I needed to affirm for myself that my abuser no longer has any control over me. The wounds have to drain out before they can heal. I needed to really ...

Erzählungen unserer Zeit: Sun Yuan & Peng Yus “Can’t Help Myself”

New York/The Guggenheim: Ein Roboter in einem Glaskäfig versucht sich drei Jahre lang am Leben zu erhalten. Am Ende seiner Kraft liegt eine absurde Erkenntnis.

“We deconstructed some of our illusions” – Exploring love around the world

In early 2019, Davor Rostuhar and his newly wed wife Andela embark on a journey that leads them through five continents, more than 30 countries, and ultimately, back to themselves. ...

Ferrars & Fields ESSAYS & OPINIONS

Seit einem Jahr habe ich plötzlich Coming Outs.

“Coming Outs sind nur ein Teil der Geschichte, in der sich meine Queerness und meine Behinderung immer wieder auf unerwartete Art und Weise verweben.”

“Queer love reconfigures the way you move through the world when, at last, you are touched softly, gently and with such tenderness”

Deidre’s social media reads like a beautiful love letter to lesbianism, and their personal work reflects their eventful life—from a case of sexual violence in Deidre’s childhood to marrying their ...

Expressing Platonic Love as a (Closeted) Queer Person

“Long before I ever even considered the fact that my ‘normal’ would never include a husband or children, I struggled to show platonic love to my friends.”

Ferrars & Fields PHILOSOPHY & SOCIETY

Tumblr’s enduring appeal reveals the potency of the web’s cultural memory

Despite a mass exodus of users in 2018, Tumblr continues to be a place that fosters fandom and subcultures. Now, Gen Zers searching for a dose of early-2010s internet nostalgia ...

Warum eigentlich Pride? — Von der tödlichsten aller Todsünden

The Queer City: How to Design More Inclusive Public Space

In the context of rising patterns of hate crime, the idea of “queering” public space might offer a solution. Through interviews with over 120 academics, designers, activists and other ...

Ferrars & Fields LOCAL / BERLIN

„als würde ich ein Bild malen, und das Bild bin dann ich“– Drag Künstlerin Chloe Waldorf im Interview

Die Berliner Drag-Künstlerin Chloe Waldorf wird seit über acht Jahren gefragt und gefeiert. Bei Ferrars & Fields spricht sie über Sinn und Bedeutung von Drag, über die Anfänge ihrer Karriere ...

I cried at a Dita von Teese show

This May, my friend took me to a Dita von Teese show. As a plus-sized person diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, I was hesitant at first, fearing my complex and ...

“We deconstructed some of our illusions” – Exploring love around the world

In early 2019, Davor Rostuhar and his newly wed wife Andela embark on a journey that leads them through five continents, more than 30 countries, and ultimately, back to themselves. ...

Ferrars & Fields BIPOC

Developing a Black Genderfluid Feminist Critique via Tumblr

“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, ...

The World Must End: Affect Theory and Diaspora

After years of feminist theory in which I reappraised the ways in which femininity and women’s bodies were made and broken by external forces, scattered into a thousand-piece puzzle and ...

Why does critical race theory make people so uncomfortable?

A vital step in achieving the kind of action and change that CRT proposes is for each of us to be intentional and steadfast in our convictions to dismantle racist ...

Ferrars & Fields FEUILLETON & MEDIA

Circe: Tochter der Sonne und feministische Ikone

"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."

Love and Thunder: the evolution of Thor’s masculinity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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.

Developing a Black Genderfluid Feminist Critique via Tumblr

“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, ...

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