Writing the Queer-Feminist Diasporic Re-existance: Researching Non-canonic Literary Texts by Ukrainian Migrants

• In Event: Interrogating the Discourse of Liberation: Critical Feminist and Queer Perspectives for Ukraine

Abstract

Despite the hardships of forced migration, an explosion of new Ukrainian textual, visual and intermedial queer expressions can be observed. Particularly intersectional, radical, controversial, and politically queer contemporary texts written by Ukrainian migrants are understudied, while at the same time some types of intelligible queerness are receipted and celebrated medially and through academic and art institutions. This talk shows, with examples from recent queer writing and literary reading events in Berlin, how queer literature and counterculture can create space for non-cis/heteronormative diasporic re-existence.

Author

• Masha Beketova, Humboldt U Berlin (Germany)