November-December 2022

A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)

Article

Ruthia Jenrbekova, Galina Rymbu

November 2022

Dream Machine Workshop

The workshop to train Anna Lok in the Dream Machine Methodology in order for her to lead a series of workshops for the queer Belarus community in a framework of do.less.lab, a well-being and resilience collective, which radically proposes “to dive into the revolution of kindness to jointly regulate the stress of our nervous systems.”

Masha Godovannaya

Vilnus

October 2022

Dream Machine workshop

Ruthia Jenrbekova

Yerevan

The workshop was organized on a small scale in a private space, and gathered four participants involved in queer-feminist activism in Armenia.

An intense two-day workshop with about ten participants, mostly artists and queer activists took place in a small independent art & activist space ‘Project Fungus’.

August 2022

Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha: Cracks and Ghostly Matters in the National/ist Heritage of Central Asia

Article in Central Asian Affairs

SvetLana Peshkova, Ruthia Jenrbekova, Maria Vilkovisky

July 2022

Recognition or Othering? Trans* Representation in Russian Media

Peer-reviewed chapter

Iain Zabolotny, Katharina Wiedlack

June 2022

Dialogues on Solidarity

An international speaker series on queer, feminist and anti-racist solidarities across the post-Soviet regions and beyond

Lecture series

Katarina Wiedlack,

Summer School: The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistics Studies, Stony Brook University

March 2022

Dream Machine workshop

For safety reasons due to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the workshop for the queer community was conducted by local collaborators with Masha’s coordination via Zoom.

The organizers and participants asked themselves and each other: what could be ways of coping with reality and ourselves in a situation without a language to describe all the unfolding horror? How can we keep in touch and organize support for one another when social ties and bonding are collapsing?

St. Petersburg

Masha Godovannaya, Anna Altukhova, Polina Zaslavskaya

March 2022

Gender Bites – Wild Tongues: queer pedagogies, pedagogías cuir and/or queer_pädagogik

Online platform

Katharina Wiedlack, Anna T., Iain Zabolotny

Fernuni Hagen

The Magic Closet became a part of Gender Bites – Wild Tongues international, multi-lingual online platform. Throughout the project Gender Bites move between languages, as well as questioning or reworking these and other terms. Their focus is on how learning is transformed or becomes transformative through dissident practices, untamed desires and avoiding normalcies. In the face of power inequalities, domination, and violence, Gender Bites are also concerned with unlearning, un_learning, and an orientation to what so far has been marginalized, or rejected as confusing, unintelligible or odd.

March 2022

Ver/Kvir(t)e Opazität: Migration und Un_Sichtbarkeit in Masha Godovannaya’s Film „Countryless and Queer“

Article

Katharina Wiedlack

Open Gender Journal

January 2022

Fucking Solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective

The Feminist Critique special issue (#5)

Guest editors: Katharina Wiedlack, Olenka Syaivo Dmytryk, Liza Belorusova