Status
In storage
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Collection
Publication
Berlin: Once We Were Islands
Physical description
66 p.; 30 cm
Summary
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'Developing skills to talk about death and dying is an intrinsic part of maintaining and nurturing mental health. Study after study has confirmed queer people, especially those with intersectional identities, face greater mental health challenges and social isolation. During our research period, lasting for four months and starting in summer 2020, we will focus on how we talk about death, grief, and bereavement, specifically as, and with, intersectional queer people. How do we give space for death and dying as a specific part of the queer life experience? How do we handle death and dying in the face of Queer Erasure, where our queerness is deleted or downplayed for the sake of ‘dignity’? How do we confront our connection to the history of death ingrained in the AIDS crisis and the sky-high suicide and murder rates among queer people without shame or despair? How do we initiate conversations and share experiences? How do we engage with the potent and often difficult emotions that these themes bring up for an audience? How do we keep hearts and minds open, yet not trivialise, patronise, or romanticise? How do we honour stories of queer death, queer grief, and queer bereavement as vivid and vital parts of queer life and living?
Tante Tod is a drag character performed by Aslan that first appeared, briefly during a group presentation at the Sophiensaele Berlin, in 2017. She was fabulous and terrifying, and silent as the grave. She read tarot cards — each and every one of which was Death — and listened to participants’ experiences of grief and loss during a one-to-one performance. She has been sleeping ever since, but the things she helped us talk about with one another have come to feel ever more important, and we have found her very hard to forget. We would like to bring her back to ‘life’ and see what she is capable of. As a core part of our research, we will examine how the persona of Tante Tod can help us, and our extended queer family and communities, talk about death and dying.'
(Taken from the publisher's website)
Online version available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VsT3QT0lOI_yitYWwdg1UE-5qaBd4KX2/view
'Developing skills to talk about death and dying is an intrinsic part of maintaining and nurturing mental health. Study after study has confirmed queer people, especially those with intersectional identities, face greater mental health challenges and social isolation. During our research period, lasting for four months and starting in summer 2020, we will focus on how we talk about death, grief, and bereavement, specifically as, and with, intersectional queer people. How do we give space for death and dying as a specific part of the queer life experience? How do we handle death and dying in the face of Queer Erasure, where our queerness is deleted or downplayed for the sake of ‘dignity’? How do we confront our connection to the history of death ingrained in the AIDS crisis and the sky-high suicide and murder rates among queer people without shame or despair? How do we initiate conversations and share experiences? How do we engage with the potent and often difficult emotions that these themes bring up for an audience? How do we keep hearts and minds open, yet not trivialise, patronise, or romanticise? How do we honour stories of queer death, queer grief, and queer bereavement as vivid and vital parts of queer life and living?
Tante Tod is a drag character performed by Aslan that first appeared, briefly during a group presentation at the Sophiensaele Berlin, in 2017. She was fabulous and terrifying, and silent as the grave. She read tarot cards — each and every one of which was Death — and listened to participants’ experiences of grief and loss during a one-to-one performance. She has been sleeping ever since, but the things she helped us talk about with one another have come to feel ever more important, and we have found her very hard to forget. We would like to bring her back to ‘life’ and see what she is capable of. As a core part of our research, we will examine how the persona of Tante Tod can help us, and our extended queer family and communities, talk about death and dying.'
(Taken from the publisher's website)
Online version available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VsT3QT0lOI_yitYWwdg1UE-5qaBd4KX2/view
DDC/MDS
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Pages
66