Healthcare, mobility, loneliness, and community: While these issues affect many queer people, access to these things is often more difficult for queer people in rural areas. At the same time, counseling and networking services are often less available, and the threat of anti-queer and transphobic violence is more present.
In this episode, Chris speaks with Dasha and Jole from the project "Que(e)r through Saxony. Empowerment and Counseling" at RosaLinde Leipzig. The project focuses not only on supporting queer people, for example, with coming out or transitioning, but also on networking with local partners and training professionals. Because "There aren't any people like that here" is utter nonsense: Queer people have always existed everywhere, even in rural areas. What are the challenges some of them face? What can be done in light of the shift to the right, which is also increasing transphobia and queerism? And how many Pride celebrations are actually taking place in Saxony this year?
You'll find out all about this in the new episode.
We also report on current figures on the need for care, which surprised the Federal Minister of Health and raise the question: How do we finance this increased need for care? And we report on the new minimum wage for care workers, which came into effect at the beginning of May 2024. In the vision, we take you to Brandenburg, where a group of people wants to enable communal living and economic activity in rural areas for marginalized communities.
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News
Interview
Rental for the traveling exhibition “There are no such people here”: https://queeres-sachsen.de/verleih/
Instagram: @rosalinde_leipzig/
Some CSD dates
July 13.07th Pirna
August 10.08th Torgau
10.08. Bautzen
August 11.08th Radebeul
24.08. Plauen
24.08. Vogtland
07.09. Freiberg
September 14.09th Riesa
21.09. Döbeln
taz article “Queer Life in the Countryside”
Vision
Instagram: @arruda_collective
Definitions
Intersectional: The term goes back to the Black lawyer and professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. It describes how different forms of discrimination interact. For example, transphobic discrimination, sexist and racist discrimination cannot simply be put together, but form new forms of oppression (e.g. transmisogynoir: the concrete violence experienced by Black trans*feminine and trans*feminine people of color). In the 1960s, Crenshaw looked at dismissed discrimination lawsuits by Black women in the USA and found that the experiences of these women were not recognized as discrimination by the courts – whereas those of white women or Black men were. They were therefore specifically disadvantaged as Black women. In activist contexts, “intersectional” often means that people are aware of and want to take into account that people have different, intertwined experiences of oppression.
Supervision: Supervision is a type of consultation that people use to talk to an external person about dynamics, challenges and conflicts, for example in their work team or in relation to their association work or the work in specific cases.
Trust: The Treuhandanstalt (Treuhand Agency) was tasked with transforming the GDR's planned economy into a capitalist market economy. From 1990 to 1994, it was tasked with making approximately 12.000 state-owned enterprises "market-ready" within a very short period of time. Approximately half of the enterprises were privatized, a quarter were closed, and a small portion were returned to their former owners. More than 85% of the privatized companies were taken over by West German owners. The Treuhand's policies were partly responsible for the fact that almost 3 million people in East Germany were unemployed in 1994. More information on History of the trust.
Music
Rihanna: Work
Scott Holmes Music: Positive and Fun https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Tim Taj: Upbeat Happy https://freemusicarchive.org/music/timtaj/positive-corporate-music/upbeat-happy/
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