Casco invites you to INQUEERSECTIONS - festival

| tag: Utrecht

released Feb 14 - Sun 16 Feb 2014, Casco, New Quay
213-215, Utrecht,

Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory welcomes INQUEERSECTIONS. The festival is dedicated to exploring the possibilities and limits of queer and feminist activism in different contexts. She brings activists, artists, theorists and cultural workers together who are all critical questions to the dominant power structures in our societies, particularly sexual, racial and economic hierarchies. Inqueersections uses the notion of intersectionality - a concept that was first described by the black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw and has since been used in various fields of knowledge as a way to think about different forms of oppression and how they relate to each other.

Redmond Collective (Amsterdam), Voices of Women Media (Amsterdam), Sex Worker Open University (Berlin / London), Egbert Alejandro Martina (Amsterdam), Vreer (Amsterdam), Güarrillerxs (Madrid), Smaschieramenti (Bologna), Fiokla and Ramune ( Lithuania), Slavcho Dimitrov and Velimir Zernovski (Macedonia / UK), Zarra Bonheur and Illudshione (Paris), MP5 (Italy), Petra Ybeles Smit (Nijmegen) and Radical Queer Affinity Collective (Budapest) organizing film screenings and workshops at . For three days we explore how intersectional oppression creates unexpected alliances, complex dialogues generates and provides opportunities to share information about queer activism in different contexts. Knowledge and strategies The festival will also questioning the importance of power relations that our actions to maintain and which are brought to silence for types of knowledge that way

The workshops are free. You do not need to book. The time schedule and program details of the workshops can be found on the website: inqueersections.org.