QUEER AGAINST OPPRESSION AND FACISM

A benefit t-shirt for the new queer-feminist archive center in Berlin by the FFBIZ, Spinnboden archive and the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Society.

30 Euros + shipping

in light pink and dark-blue in S-XXL!

The first archive centre for lesbian-queer, feminist and sexual history, research, education and culture is moving to Neukölln in Berlin. They need your financial support for this. Three of Berlin's oldest and most important memory centres are setting up a joint archive centre.

What for? Collecting and preserving lesbian, gay, queer and feminist history is becoming increasingly important in times of a renewed shift to the right! The struggles of the past are our mission today - to inform, strengthen and inspire the generations that come after us. The merger as an archive centre means long-term security for the three participating archives: contracts for 99 years with the guarantee of stable rents and more space for the growing collections.

In the t-shirt motive, Philipp Gufler updates a poster of the National Working Group Repression against Gays (NARGS). This group, working supra-regionally from 1977 until 1981, adopted the motif of the Pink Triangle, in memory of the homosexual victims of National Socialism. The Pink Triangle was used to identify prisoners outed as homosexual in the concentration camps. Since then, it has been used as a positive identification and a political symbol by various queer movements, such as ACT UP during the initial period of the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s.

Philipp Gufler links this historical sense with current debates on gender-sensitive language and trans-identities together with the threat to democracy through right-wing extremism and populism. Queer  against oppression and facism is an intervention in current cultural debates, focusing on solidary communities instead of identitarian differences.

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