Political self-organization as Strategy of Resistance: 3 Dinner Talks

During our three BIPoC Dinner Talks “Political self-organization as Strategy of Resistance” we would like to spend relaxed evenings with you. We will talk about our and your experiences, plans and utopian visions around community and coalitions between BIPoC and combine them with some freewriting/dreaming exercises. To do this, we will draw on our personal experiences in different collectives such as Anti*colonial Fantasies, WE DEY x SPACE, CutieBIPoC Fest, Big Sibling Collective, Adoptees Healing Space, among others.

Together we exchange ideas about how we want to hold space for each other and how projects and ideas can be implemented that bring us together and strengthen us in our (university) everyday life. Towards the end of the evenings there will be time set aside to get to know each other.
The goal of the events - especially in times of isolation- is to create a space for BIPoC networking, future coming together and political self-organization.

A week before you get a reminder-email with the zoom link!

The planned workshop language is German. Please let us know upon registration if you prefer the workshop to be held in English. Please only sign up if you are available on this date(s) as we have limited capacity for the sessions. If you are registered but can’t make it on short notice: please let us know so that we can offer this space to someone else! Contact:  bipoc@khm.de

18.6. 6 - 8pm Intro Political Self-organisation - Whats our understanding of political self-organization? Tell us about your experiences, expectations and dreams!

2.7.  6 - 8pm Building Blocks of political Self organisation - Which roles of self-organizations are there and which ones can you identify with?

23.7.  6 - 8pm Planting Seeds- How do collectively we want to create spaces and how will we move from here?

FACILITATORS

Sunanda Mesquita (she/they) is a visual artist, curator, and co-founder of Anti*colonial Fantasies und WE DEY x SPACE in Vienna. (we-dey.in) Their artistic practice focuses on the possibilities of a radical, utopian, queer, feminist collectivity of Black people and People of Color and issues of community, solidarity, and belonging. decolonialkilljoy.com

Shenja Vasanthi Kumari Danz (she/they) is part of the BigSibling collective and is active in various anti-racist and queerfeminist contexts. She writes and discusses on the topic of racial profiling, with a particular focus on intersectional analyses of racist police violence.