HOT TAKE is a QT* research collective, specifically made for LGBTQIA+ nerds and curious cuties, embracing non-academic and/or neurodivergent types of learning. The aim of the group is to dive into specific and weirder research holes of the people joining, the ones that otherwise don’t really see the light. Per session, one person or collective is invited to take the lead on being the host and moderator. Methods/mediums are super flexible, like for example stuff to read, videos, graphs, memes, lectures to watch… 
HOT TAKE takes place biweekly at Failing Femmes (in Berlin-Treptow) and is free of cost.
Upcoming dates
Join the Telegram channel or the Telegram Group Chat for the project to stay updated. You can also contact Honey at honey@cqs.berlin for more info.
Past dates in 2023
01_4 JULY___INTRODUCTION
AT FAILING FEMMES
- Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools will never Dismantle the Master’s House”, 1984
02_18 JULY___MONSTERS
AT FAILING FEMMES
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, 1996
- Stacy Holman Jones & Anne Harris, “Monsters, creative desire and the queer body”, 2016
- “Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror”, 2022
- Audiobook of “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”
03_15 AUGUST___MONSTERS
AT FAILING FEMMES
- Susan Stryker, “My Words to Viktor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Trans Rage”, 1994
- Susan Stryker, “Transgeneration: Or, Becoming-With My Monstrous Kin”, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZreL7D8gQ8
04_22 AUGUST___BARBIE
AT FAILING FEMMES
05_5 SEPTEMBER___QUEER-FEMINIST WAYS OF LEARNING
AT FAILING FEMMES
- “The Urgent Need for Compassion”, Alok Vaid-Menon on the Man Enough podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SovB8DUniC7EwCg3hRgCM?si=0cb30f84dc4945c4 (around 1 hour)
- Audre Lorde, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”, 1977 (3 pages)
- bell hooks, “Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy”, 1965 (5 pages)
07_10 OCTOBER___PRESENTING OUR SPECIAL INTERESTS
AT FAILING FEMMES
Present in 5-10 minutes one of your current special interests or obsessions. In whatever shape or form suits you. There is a projector in the space, as well as a speaker.
08_16 OCTOBER___FILM SCREENING: AUDRE LORDE
AT FAILING FEMMES
- “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992”, 2012
- Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger”, 1981
- Marion Kraft, “Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde”, 2018
09_24 OCTOBER___FILM SCREENING: DAVID WOJNAROWITCZ
AT FAILING FEMMES
- “Art, AIDS and New York in the 80s: Wojnarowitcz”, VICE
- Lucy R. Lippard, “Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power”
- “Witnesses: Against our Vanishing”, excerpts from Nan Goldin and David Wojnarowitcz, 1989
- Douglas Crimp, “Mourning and Militancy”, 1989