TQU-Tresen with Rorschach Bruises & friends
When: September 29th, 2018
Where: Berlin, FAQ Laden
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20th Century Girl
TEXT BY: Shawna Virago // USA || ILLUSTRATION BY: Dixie Jade Turner // UK/Germany
Over coffee and onion rings, we chatted away, sharing our histories, tracing our connections, discovering our lines of intersection and where we were different, as we unburdened much to each other. -
Death on the Beach
TEXT BY: Michael Ampersant // Netherlands || ILLUSTRATION BY: Heather Sinclair // Germany
Shy as I was, I would always make sure that I wasn’t entering the wrong cabin, or walking in on somebody forgetting to lock the door who would then be standing there with his pants half-down and his tiny dick, looking embarrassed or angry and later show up in my dreams. -
The Journey across Southern Island
TEXT BY: Alexander Opicho // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Beldan Selzen // Amsterdam/New York
We are now driving past Bukolobi Night Club, towards the football pitch where the Al Shabab terrorist once attacked. We are sure no policeman is following us. Uganda police have that type of over-confidence of having been guerilla; they know that no woman can defy their order. -
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Time’s up
TEXT BY: Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // Hungary/Greece || ILLUSTRATION BY: Ranafarba // France
“She talked for an hour or so. Told me everything. How everyone got divided. Everything got very complicated. Identities clashed. First came the men, then gay men, then trans men, then trans women, then women, then lesbian women, bisexuals (they really had it ugly, nobody ever believed they were even a thing), asexuals, metrosexuals, non-binary, queer. Riots, protests, violence in all possible ways and forms.”
Michael Ampersand
PROPSLIST | SKILL SHARING
Skills: writing
Looking for: artist to create comic or graphic novel with
TQU Tresen screening Yumma
When: Oktober 26th, 2018
Where: Berlin, FAQ Laden
WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BECAME THEIR CAUSE
TEXT BY: Nikola Italo // Argentina
In Argentina we are living through a very particular but incredibly significant course of events. The parliament (Congress, to be specific) has decided to start the project of a new law: the decriminalization of abortion.
To the girl who made me realise that my being straight was a phase!
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA
I remember asking you if you were sure of what you were feeling not because I didn’t trust it but because I wanted to be sure.
A Bed Of Stones
TEXT BY: Chroma Curious // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany
She put her concerns aside and scanned the scenario. On her left was a river and to her right was a small cave.
TQU Tresen with Rurru Mipanochia
When: August 31st, 2018
Where: Berlin, FAQ Laden
20th Century Girl
TEXT BY: Shawna Virago // USA || ILLUSTRATION BY: Dixie Jade Turner // UK/Germany
Over coffee and onion rings, we chatted away, sharing our histories, tracing our connections, discovering our lines of intersection and where we were different, as we unburdened much to each other.
Death on the Beach
TEXT BY: Michael Ampersant // Netherlands || ILLUSTRATION BY: Heather Sinclair // Germany
Shy as I was, I would always make sure that I wasn’t entering the wrong cabin, or walking in on somebody forgetting to lock the door who would then be standing there with his pants half-down and his tiny dick, looking embarrassed or angry and later show up in my dreams.
Travelogue – SAFE project
TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION BY: Julia Lama // Spain
Not so long ago I traveled from Spain to Poland to take part in a youth training, where we learned how to raise awareness on sexuality (sexual education), assertiveness, feminism and equality through methodologies of non-formal education.
Faces of Pride – Zine
Happy (critical) Pride 2018 everyone! Download and view Pride zine here!
Interviews with pride organizers from all around the world. Ever wondered what’s still political about Pride? This is!
The Journey across Southern Island
TEXT BY: Alexander Opicho // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Beldan Selzen // Amsterdam/New York
We are now driving past Bukolobi Night Club, towards the football pitch where the Al Shabab terrorist once attacked. We are sure no policeman is following us. Uganda police have that type of over-confidence of having been guerilla; they know that no woman can defy their order.
Faces of Pride: Natalino Ornai Guterres || Timor-Leste Pride
“To me personally, it was amazing to see changes take place over the past year. Last year, my brother who was previously not accepting of my sexual orientation, came to march with me. This year, my mother, who was also not accepting of my sexual orientation last year, came to Pride this year. “
Orphan
TEXT BY: V. P. Gangadharan // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Alann De Vuyst // Netherlands
It implies a blatant denial of parturition to offspring, a crass refusal of rational identity from a progenitor, making of an anthropoid creature void of ‘in-your-face’ societal stamp, called for human race.
Send me postcards and books
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Falco Verholen // Netherlands
Send me postcards and books
Your clothes for swapping
And all the slicing words that repeat
Your clothes for swapping
And all the slicing words that repeat
Call Me A Boy – My journey into music and manhood
TEXT BY: Faris Saad // Malaysia || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany
“My bandmates assured me that no one in the straight cis-male crowd would care, and if they did, fuck them, selamba je. Even if I lost everything else, I would still have my core group of friends who accepted me as my handsome self.”
Uncle Joe
video by:Zhen Yee Khor // Malaysia
A father talks about getting drafted to fight in a war when he was still a kid, coming home to find out that everyone thinks that what he did was wrong and shows how even if it’s against all odds, he became a loving father and husband that respects and cherishes all people, especially his gay son.
Time’s up
TEXT BY: Stella Andrada Kasdovasili // Hungary/Greece || ILLUSTRATION BY: Ranafarba // France
“She talked for an hour or so. Told me everything. How everyone got divided. Everything got very complicated. Identities clashed. First came the men, then gay men, then trans men, then trans women, then women, then lesbian women, bisexuals (they really had it ugly, nobody ever believed they were even a thing), asexuals, metrosexuals, non-binary, queer. Riots, protests, violence in all possible ways and forms.”
Darling Fitch
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT BY: Darling Fitch // Germany/USA
“Arising from the cesspool of Berlin’s queer party scene, Darling Fitch’s A Stranger Sound is a dark yet ultimately affirming transgender coming-of-age story.”
Stop Talking, Start Doing:
My experience with the eBay Startup Cup 2018
TEXT & PHOTOS: Lazar Mikov // Germany / Macedonia
“If someone told me that our team would generate revenue on the first day of our business I would have laughed in disbelief. Yet that’s exactly what happened at…”
Interview with spoken word artist Uppa Tsuyo
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || PHOTO BY: Uppa Tsuyo // India
“I love words and the power they hold. They can save you, and I am a living example of it.”
Faces of Pride: Slavco Dimitrov | Skopje Pride Weekend
“Heteronormativity has always been also co-constituted with a class system of capitalist exploitation, racial divisions and exclusions on the grounds of ethnicity, hence fighting sexual and gender inequality must attend to all these other inequalities and systems as well.”
Faces of Pride: Ilisapeci Raileqe | Fiji Pride
“To all the LGBTIQ communities, please let us support each other and be proud of who we are. I believe we go through many forms of discrimination, stigma, violence and many of us have experienced mental, physical, and psychosocial issues as a result of the aggressive actions around us, and so with the little we have and the spaces we are exposed to – like the Pride March – Let’s utilize it fully to raise a collective call and awareness to bring about change, acceptance, love, respect and we must persevere on.”
Faces of Pride: Lasia Casil || Guam Pride
“It was a challenge because Pride had never been celebrated out in the open before here on the island. There were parties in the nightclubs, but I felt it was important to make it inclusive for all ages and the entire community to participate.”
Faces of Pride: Kenneth J. Miller || Phuket Pride
For four years, we funded three additional HIV Testing in the gay area. The rate of HIV was 25% in 2012 and by 2017, we saw the rate drop down to 11%.”
Faces of Pride: Jessica Lima || Ljubljana Pride
“It’s time we work together, and that we work through/despite our differences. It’s important to stay true to our political goals, but we need to be able to compromise and be able to come together as a community and do the work that needs to be done: educate, raise awareness, organise & mobilise, etc. Our egos cannot stay in the way of our work.”
Faces of Pride: Rosanna Flamer-Caldera || Colombo Pride
“It is important to mainstream our issues, visialise the LGBTIQ community and give people in Sri Lanka a taste of Queer culture. It goes very far to encourage LGBTIQ persons to come out and feel proud of themselves and also to show Sri Lanka there is a vibrant LGBTI community here.”
Faces of Pride: Stévia Arthur || Barbados Pride
“Together we are powerful, working together, we can improve our quality of life. Stand strong together, speak out against oppression, no matter the oppressor. Visibility is liberty and knowing we have the strength of an entire community behind us, makes it less scary to be visible.”
Faces of Pride: Sothy Linda || Cambodia Pride
“First of all, Prides helped me to come out and they can encourage individuals to be themselves through educational, social, community and other activities. Then…”
Faces of Pride: Tin & Linus || Hong Kong Pride
“The growth of HK Pride as an event, and to see how the crowd changes is pretty remarkable. At 2008 we had 1.000 participants and now in about 10 years time by 2017 we had 10.000 participants. Last year’s survey even showed there are about 18% straight people that came to support their queer friends and family, which is really a nice thing to see.”
Faces of Pride: Emiel Wijnberg || Maspalomas Winter Pride
“Gran Canaria and Maspalomas are one of Europe’s favourite LGTB destinations and is therefore the ideal place for our visitors to be who they are. But at the same time our tropical island is only few hundred kilometres away from countries on another continent where being who you are is neither allowed nor accepted.”
Volunteers
Do you live in Berlin, but are originally from a different European country? Or would you like to relocate to Berlin for the term of an internship? Are you planning on starting your own business and would like to see how TQU is working before you do?
Faces of Pride: Lara Özlen || Istanbul Pride
“It is important for us to shout out loud and being more visible since there are no legal regulations in relation to hate crimes or marriage equality in Turkey.”
