Uncanny: The Politics of De-Heimatization | We Who Move The World Forward

This session of open conversations opens intimate insights into the psychological experience of the struggles and strangeness of the ordinary and how public political spaces and architectures of borders and mobility in Germany have developed and changed through migrant lives and shaped our collective memories. We discuss the meaning of Heimat space through feminist-occupied spaces, practices of revolution and restoration through decolonial sonic and visual film, effective protest & restorative justice, and independent movements of self-sustained migrant spaces.

The panel talk also presents a selection of May Ayim’s poems on the anxiety and strangeness of home and tradition as the (de)construction of identity and belonging as well as cultural narratives of horror and discriminatory behavior as forms of abjection.