Safety as (Feminist) Daring
– Milica Labaš, Paulina Rivera & Sofia Varino – RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms
In an exploration of the concept of “safety” as both a situated, embodied lived experience, and a neoliberal biosecurity strategy of control, we ask: What does it mean to “feel” safer? How can feminist imaginaries help us understand the possibilities and limits of safer spaces? How can we imagine the politics of safety as a becoming, an opening, an experiment into the unknowable from such a committed stance that assumes mutuality, responsibility and care?
The workshop proposes an interactive format where we and the participants can exchange ideas and experiences related to various modalities of safety such as the political, physical, emotional, cognitive, artistic, financial. We are interested in discussing artistic practices in their potential to challenge the dynamics of power relations and structures of oppression as they articulate and model a different paradigm of shared spaces.
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🗓️ Date | Thu., 19.09
⏰ Time | 10h-13h
📍Location |Groove Dance Studio – Wächtersbacher Straße 76
🎟️ Cost | Workshop on a donation basis
👥 Participants* |max.
🌍 Language | English
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BIOS:
Milica Labaš (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the graduate school “Minor Cosmopolitanisms” at the University of Potsdam with a background in continental philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural and literary studies. She holds an MA in Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture from the University of Potsdam and a BA in Humanities, Arts, and Social Thought from Bard College Berlin. Her current research project engages with questions of the relationship between philosophy, poetics and emancipatory politics.
Paulina Rivera (she/her/sie) is a doctoral candidate in the graduate program “Minor Cosmopolitanisms“ at the University of Potsdam. Her work focuses on the intersection of foreign policy, feminism, and decolonial theory. She is a member of the "Red Mexicana de Política Exterior Feminista" (Mexican Network for Feminist Foreign Policy), which advocates for an intersectional feminist foreign policy. She holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Relations from the Colegio de México. She identifies as a decolonial and queer feminist.