Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Veronika Kracher
A series of talks organised by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter
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Veronika Kracher: "Is Georg Soros turning your children trans? On antisemitism and LGBTIQ hatred"
"LGBTQ lobby," "groomers," "trans agenda": Queer people, especially trans people, are currently the number one enemy in the right-wing culture war. The tech-fascist Trump government is currently trying to erase trans people from history. Pride Parades in Europe face threats from Neo-Nazi or reactionary governments. Large companies have stopped DEI programs to appease the current political climate. In short: the queer community is under attack.
However, the narratives are not new: hatred of queer people is an inherent part of patriarchal and fascist ideology and, like antifeminism, regularly serves as a "door opener" to the radical and extreme right. This is rooted in the fact that queermisia and antisemitism are historically closely intertwined. Be it the "sexualized antisemitism" in the early 20th century, which established the "effeminate Jew" as the antipode to the fascist Aryan man, the "Lavender Scare" in the USA in the 1950s, or the whispers of "cultural Marxism" as the cause of the "decline" of the West – time and again, it is "the Jews" who are held responsible for queer life identities.
This lecture will use a historical analysis, current examples, and a socio-psychological approach to explore why this is the case – and why the fight for the rights of trans people should be one of the most important feminist concerns of our time.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Veronika Kracher
Biographien
Veronika Kracher is a writer, speaker and reseacher. Her key subjects are online radicalization, anti-feminism and far right extremism. In 2020, she published a book on the "Incel" community. She is currently working on her second book, analyzing misogynistic hate campaigns.
Programme
Language
In English
Content note: This talk will contain examples of antisemitism, far right extremism and LGBTIQ-hatred.
Credits
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.
Veronika Kracher: "Is Georg Soros turning your children trans? On antisemitism and LGBTIQ hatred"
"LGBTQ lobby," "groomers," "trans agenda": Queer people, especially trans people, are currently the number one enemy in the right-wing culture war. The tech-fascist Trump government is currently trying to erase trans people from history. Pride Parades in Europe face threats from Neo-Nazi or reactionary governments. Large companies have stopped DEI programs to appease the current political climate. In short: the queer community is under attack.
However, the narratives are not new: hatred of queer people is an inherent part of patriarchal and fascist ideology and, like antifeminism, regularly serves as a "door opener" to the radical and extreme right. This is rooted in the fact that queermisia and antisemitism are historically closely intertwined. Be it the "sexualized antisemitism" in the early 20th century, which established the "effeminate Jew" as the antipode to the fascist Aryan man, the "Lavender Scare" in the USA in the 1950s, or the whispers of "cultural Marxism" as the cause of the "decline" of the West – time and again, it is "the Jews" who are held responsible for queer life identities.
This lecture will use a historical analysis, current examples, and a socio-psychological approach to explore why this is the case – and why the fight for the rights of trans people should be one of the most important feminist concerns of our time.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Veronika Kracher
Biographies
Veronika Kracher is a writer, speaker and reseacher. Her key subjects are online radicalization, anti-feminism and far right extremism. In 2020, she published a book on the "Incel" community. She is currently working on her second book, analyzing misogynistic hate campaigns.
