Speaker: Valentin
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Company: Schwules Museum

About the spreaker
Valentin Rion is a researcher, curator, community organisier and artist. He's on the board of the Schwule Museum Berlin and has created exhibitions on the history of Sex Work. Her community engagement connect rural areas across Europa and the MENA region, as well as working with partners in West Africa. The Schwule Museum is a queer museum in Berlin. It hosts one of the largest queer archives. It's begginings go back to 1985. At the museum, we perceive “queer” not only as an umbrella term for sexual or gender identities (LGBTIQ*+), but also as a critical practice that challenges not only heterosexual dominance and binary gender norms but all forms of discrimination and exclusion. Changing exhibitions, research, collbaroations with local and international partners, outreach programs and intersectional community engagement form the body of our work.