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An essay on art, identity and fascism.In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity?In 1937 the s staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and put it on display.This exhibition, Entartete Kunst, is just a single episode in a long running culture war, one that has always been fought on terms set by fascism. Drawing on the work of dissident sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, South African artist Zanele Muholi as well as key proponents of queer cinema such as Pedro Almodovar and Derek Jarman, So Mayer demonstrates how artists have snuck things out of the traditional canon, playing against the grain to defy the patriarchal, imperialist and colonial terms which have been imposed on them.A Word for a Thing is a call to arms. It asks, how might we create a joyous riot? How might we use pleasure to decolonise gender and sexuality and refuse the prevailing fascist, box-ticking taxonomies?

D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – eine feministische Auseinandersetzung mit Grafikdesign, dessen dogmatischen Regeln, diskriminierenden Strukturen und besonders einseitigem Kanon. Dem Glossary of Undisciplined Design liegt eine dezidiert fragmentarische und kollektive Herangehensweise zugrunde. Es kombiniert so eine Vielzahl von Theorien und Erzählungen – vom visuellen Essay, praktischen Experiment, Interview oder Advertorial bis hin zu Gedicht, spekulativer Erzählung und akademischem Schreiben. Mit rund 55 Beiträgen von 20 internationalen Designern:innen, Aktivisten:innen, Pädagogen:innen und Theoretikern:innen erforscht das GUD-Handbuch Vorreiter:innen, Werkzeuge und Widerspruch. Mit Beiträgen von: Clara Balaguer, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Ece Canlı, Hackers & Designers, Markus Dreßen, Sara Kaaman, Anja Kaiser, Jungmyung Lee, Vincent Schier, Rebecca Stephany, Franciska Zólyom, Studierende der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, u. a. Glossary of Undisciplined Design, ist eine gemeinschaftliche Initiative der beiden Designerinnen und Pädagoginnen Anja Kaiser und Rebecca Stephany. Anja Kaiser bewegt sich in feministischen Kontexten und in Szenen der Klubkultur, wo sie nach Freiräumen für widerständige Mitgestaltung sucht. Rebecca Stephany’s polyphone kulturelle Praxis nährt sich aus intersektionaler Gesellschaftskritik, undisziplinierten Forschungsinstrumenten und wilder Lust am Bild. – D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures and a particularly one-sided canon. Carried by a decidedly fragmentary and collective backbone, the GUD handbook combines a multitude of theories and narratives of varying densities – from visual essay, hands-on experiment, interview or advertorial, to poem, speculative tale and academic writing. With around 55 contributions by 20 international designers, activists, educators and theorists, the Glossary of Undisciplined Design explores role models, tools and dissent. Glossary of Undisciplined Design is a joint initiative instigated by designer/educators Anja Kaiser and Rebecca Stephany. Kaiser is active in feminist contexts and in the club culture scene, where she seeks to carve out space for resistance. Stephany’s polyphonic cultural practice is fuelled by intersectional social critique, undisciplined research tools, and an unquenchable desire for imagery.

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.