Complexity of Discrimination. The Challenges of (Self-)Empowerment

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2025.396

Keywords:

Accessibility, Deaf Culture, Discrimination, Domination, Intersectionality

Abstract

The essay reflects on the project “Empowering University: Implementing Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination,” which was carried out by Verein Gender/Queer e.V. (under the direction of the author) as part of the annual conference “membra(I)nes” of the Gender Studies Association (Germany) 2023. This is done using two online padlets that were created in advance and to document the project and the conference. The content deals with the possibilities and limitations of accessibility as well as practical intersectional criticism of power structures and anti-discrimination at an academic and artistic-research conference. Sign language interpretation and the inclusion of Deaf participants play a particularly important role.

Author Biography

Antke Engel, iQt-Institut für Queer Theory

Antke A. Engel is director of the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin; a site where academic debate meets up with political activism and artistic/cultural practices. They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy at Potsdam University in 2001, and since then held various guest professorships in gender and queer studies. They have published widely in the fields of queer, feminist and poststructuralist theory, political philosophy, and visual cultural studies.

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Published

2025-11-07

How to Cite

Engel, A. (2025). Complexity of Discrimination. The Challenges of (Self-)Empowerment. Open Gender Journal, (1). https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2025.396

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