30.07.2024
What Rosa Luxemburg has in common with the witch Jagnieszka - transitory memory work using the example of the Polish feminist collective Dziewuchy Berlin
New blog article by Gisela Mackenroth
In 2020, following the call of the German-Polish protest art collective Dziewuchy Berlin, a large group of feminist activists, elves, sorceresses and ghosts draped in lace gathered at the Berlin monument to the Polish soldier and German anti-fascist. The participants were protesting against a further tightening of abortion laws in Poland. How does the protest change this monument? The essay discusses protest as a moment of transnational culture of remembrance.