Vortragsreihe "Kunst - Forschung - Geschlecht"
Niloofar Rasooli
Weeds against the Walls: Frames of Feminist Resilience in Iran
Mittwoch, 22. November 202318:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Hörsaal 1 | Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 1 - Ferstl Trakt | Ground floor
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“I write, and you erase, but how can you erase the blood?” When the Kurdish chanting of “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” emerged from Saqiz, Kurdistan, walls turned into the canvas of resistance, weaving the words of pain, keeping forbidden memories alive, manifesting the fight, and outlining the solidarity. The walls began to speak when bullets targeted the mouths speaking the words. The walls came to embody a revolt when hands writing against the walls of dominance were arrested.
In the ongoing uprising in Iran, words of resistance are growing all over the walls like weeds. These words, like weeds, carry the power of anonymity being too many to count, being too many to fail to blame one, being too many to cut one you cut one here, the other grows over there, anywhere, wherever, everywhere. I recall the notion of weeds for a queer feminist reading of gender apartheid, a notion for a theory-making of out-of-placeness and every-where-ness.
In this lecture, I want to travel between the past and present to discuss writing, radical hope, and the unspoken words of resistance through the notion of weeds. This lecture aims to propose an outline of radical possibility for a revolutionary queer futures right from the midst of the violence and rupture where the weeds are grown.
Niloofar Rasooli (she/her) is a queer feminist scholar-activist, writer, and journalist from Iran. At the moment, she holds a doctorate fellowship at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, gta, ETH Zürich.
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