FG214 Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin

Through various intersectional, feminist and multidisciplinary critical perspectives—such as Black, Transnational, and LGBTQ—this course examines how the identities of Black, Jewish, Turkish, and LGBTQI communities, as well as (im)migrants, refugees, victims of Neo-Nazi terrorism and police brutality, and other marginalized people are constructed in Germany, focusing especially on Berlin—particularly how these constructions are dependent on racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression. Additionally, it examines how these people and communities resist, reject, revise, and reproduce these narratives as they construct their subjectivities.