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.

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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: Youtube

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: Podcast (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