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This Saturday! come to chill and connect @Kurdish Cultural Center and The Samenscholing!
Op zaterdag 26 september orginaseren Koerdische jongeren en de Anarchistische Boekenwinkel Opstand een “meet & greet”. Het evenement is bedoeld om banden te smeden tussen hen die naar een andere wereld verlangen en internationale solidariteit te versterken. Tijdens de bijeenkomst zal er een presentatie en discussie zijn gebaseerd op de resultaten van de sociale revolutie in Rojava.
De “meet & greet” begint om 16.00 in het Koerdisch Cultureel Centrum aan de Radarstraat 23 te Den Haag. Er zullen wat hapjes zijn voor tijdens de discussie. Daarna zullen we ons verplaatsen naar sociaal centrum De Samenscholing voor een meer informele setting, wat drankjes, tafelvoetbal en pool.
Tot dan!
Op zaterdag 26 september orginaseren Koerdische jongeren en de Anarchistische Boekenwinkel Opstand een “meet & greet”. Het evenement is bedoeld om banden te smeden tussen hen die naar een andere wereld verlangen en internationale solidariteit te versterken. Tijdens de bijeenkomst zal er een presentatie en discussie zijn gebaseerd op de resultaten van de sociale revolutie in Rojava.
De “meet & greet” begint om 16.00 in het Koerdisch Cultureel Centrum aan de Radarstraat 23 te Den Haag. Er zullen wat hapjes zijn voor tijdens de discussie. Daarna zullen we ons verplaatsen naar sociaal centrum De Samenscholing voor een meer informele setting, wat drankjes, tafelvoetbal en pool.
Tot dan!
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QSU Update
From now on, the Queer Spreek Uur collective is no longer part of the Samenscholing and the Opstand collective. The collective is growing and establishing itself as an independent entity. We thank the Opstand for providing us the space and support that we needed to start the collective. Moreover in a move towards only privacy we are also abandoning Facebook.
Queer anger and resistance will not be stopped, see below for several alternatives to keep up to date with us.
website: www.qsu070.noblogs.org
email: queerspreekuur@riseup.net
diaspora* (facebook alternative):
– sign up on the same node as us https://diaspora.1312.media/i/18cfaf914ca8
– or choose your own https://diasporafoundation.org/
mastodon (twitter alternative): https://mastodon.online/@queerspreekuur
Movie screening: Cumann na mBan
Tomorrow we’ll continue our series on the troubles in Northern Ireland with a film about Cumann na mBan. See details in the image above.
Accessibility/Space:
The space is accessible via a front yard/door. If you use a wheelchair, please come in at Water& Brood and knock on the windows of the Opstand. We will come and open the door for you. We are sorry for the inconvenience but we are working on better solutions. One note for people with allergies: There are frequently cats on the couches in the Opstand (as they are the only people living in the Samenscholing).
The next tram station is Anna Bijnslaan, Tram 9 in direction of Scheveningen Noord.
If coming by train, the closest stations are Den Haag Hs and Den Haag Moerwijk (from there you can walk/roll)
The neighborhood is residential, therefore parking in the evenings is easy, but possible.
Covid19:
Movie Screenings take place (for now) in The Concert hall, where there is more space to keep distance.
Please wear/bring your own mask to the event. Enter via the Bookstore if possible, where hand sanitizer and face masks can be provided. Please wear a face mask during the event. If you have difficulties breathing with a face mask, we will find a solution for you to take part, please reach out via email or facebook or personally.
Your aren’t obliged but we ask you to leave your name and your email/phone to be informed if any of the other participants has been infected with covid19. We will keep the notes safe and destroy them after 3 weeks.
**** General Disclaimer ****
We do not tolerate fascists, racism, sexism, and homophobia, transphobia and other discriminatory behavior. Check your privilege before taking up space!
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QSU 11-9: Film screening – Female trouble
This week we will watch the film “Female trouble”. This 1974 dark comedy has been described as a classic queer production, where most of the cast is queer and the story is deliberately political.
The meeting starts at 19:00, we will have one hour for general discussion, at 20:00 we will start the film screening.
We are in the process of sorting out the location for the event, so if you are interested in coming along please send us an email at queerspreekuur [at] riseup.net and we will give you more information when it becomes available.
Covid19:
Please wear/bring your own mask to the event. Hand sanitizer and face masks can be provided. Please wear a face mask during the event. If you have difficulties breathing with a face mask, we will find a solution for you to take part, please reach out via email or facebook or personally.
Your aren’t obliged but we ask you to leave your name and your email/phone to be informed if any of the other participants has been infected with covid19. We will keep the notes safe and destroy them after 3 weeks.
***** General Disclaimer *****
We do not tolerate fascists, racism, sexism, and homophobia, transphobia and other discriminatory behavior. Check your privilege before taking up space!
*****
!! To our non queer participants !!!:
This session will be a discussion by and for queers – meaning that priority will be given to queer people. People who do not identify as queer and who wish to participate nevertheless can send an email beforehand (queerspreekuur [at] riseup.net). We will let you know by Friday 14.00 if the situation allows for your presence or not.
QSU 4-9-2020 Queer Plants (DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION!!)
QSU 4-9-2020 Queer Plants
This friday’s queerspreekuur: The theme of the week is going to be plants and queerness. Until now, QSU’s been happening at the Samenscholing, but we want to do this edition in a place where there’s actually plants around.
If you want to cycle there together, meet us at The Hague Centraal Station at 16:00 to go somewhere where it’s greener. A person from the QSU will be there waiting with a big rainbow umbrella.
We’ll start at 17:00, and we’ll go for a walk identifying edible and medicinal plants, as well as talk about (queer) plants. If the weather allows, this will happen outside, but if it’s raining there’s an indoors space available for that, too. Afterwards, there will be food on donation.
The conversation will centre around what plants and queerness actually have to do with each other, the ways we personally relate to plants, and the ways we can access them and use them for healing (including as remedies for common ailments, but also for hormone adjustment, or just as healthy food).
If you want to create a physical reminder of the plants we find, you can take an old book to press some of them. It will also be possible to gather plants for salad or tea or drying or any other reason. For taking those home, it’s best to bring a fabric bag (and scissors).
In case you already want to do some reading to get excited about queer plants, we recommend:
– Gay Plants (zine)
gayplants.noblogs.org
– “Fucking Pansies” by Caspar Heinemann
blog.ecocore.co/post/161819858724/fucking-pansies.
– Gay Plants (zine)
gayplants.noblogs.org
– “Fucking Pansies” by Caspar Heinemann
blog.ecocore.co/post/161819858724/fucking-pansies.
To bring:
– rain gear, probably
– clothes that can get dirty, preferably long pants (because of brambles and nettles)
– fabric bag and scissors (optional)
– an old book (optional, we will also provide some)
– rain gear, probably
– clothes that can get dirty, preferably long pants (because of brambles and nettles)
– fabric bag and scissors (optional)
– an old book (optional, we will also provide some)
!COVID19 safety measures!
We’ll make sure the space inside allows for physical distancing, and that there are open windows. Please take your own face mask for safety. (if you forgot or still decide to come, we have some there as well). We’ll do our best to facilitate it as covid19 and machosafe as possible.
We’ll make sure the space inside allows for physical distancing, and that there are open windows. Please take your own face mask for safety. (if you forgot or still decide to come, we have some there as well). We’ll do our best to facilitate it as covid19 and machosafe as possible.
Accessibility: If cycling is not an option for you, there are also bus stations nearby.There are also cats and dogs present in the place where the event will be.
Send us an email before hand or to let us know on the day itself how we can best accommodate you (i.e. picking you up at the bus station, adapting the walk, cat/dog free space…).
Send us an email before hand or to let us know on the day itself how we can best accommodate you (i.e. picking you up at the bus station, adapting the walk, cat/dog free space…).
! To our non queer participants !!!:
This session will be a discussion by and for queers – meaning that priority will be given to queer people. People who do not identify as queer and who wish to participate nevertheless can send an email beforehand (queerspreekuur@riseup.net). We will let you know by Friday 13.00 if the situation allows for your presence or not.
This session will be a discussion by and for queers – meaning that priority will be given to queer people. People who do not identify as queer and who wish to participate nevertheless can send an email beforehand (queerspreekuur@riseup.net). We will let you know by Friday 13.00 if the situation allows for your presence or not.
#queerthehague #queer #qsu070 #queerplants #gayplants #herbal #vegan #denhaag #queernetherlands #anarchisme
Movie Screening ‘The Patriot Game’ by Arthur MacCaig
Hey everyone!
On the 3th of September – THIS THURSDAY – there will be a movie screening (‘The Patriot Game‘) about the beginning of the troubles in Northern Ireland.
The screening starts at 19.00.
hope to see you then!
here the poster:
[Documentary by Arthur McCaig: This extraordinary and moving documentary reviews ten years of armed warfare by the IRA and places today’s headlines in their proper headlines in their political and economic context. Through vivid footage of street battles and interview with participants. The Patriot Game forcefully debunks the twin myths that the IRA is a ‘terrorist organization’ fighting ‘religious war’.]
QSU 28/08: Queer nihilism
This week, finally, queer nihilism!
What is queer nihilism? No idea – let’s find out together! We’ll read and discuss bits and pieces from Baedan, a queer nihilist journal. Come join us on Friday 28/08, 19.00 at Beatrijsstraat 12, The Hague.
Format
The session will open with a short presentation, during which we will define key terms and outline the main issues in queer nihilism. We will also have visual support for this part of the conversation.
After a short break we’ll split up in smaller groups and read excerpts from Baedan which we will discuss in these small groups (guiding questions will be provided which you may use or not).
Some links if you want to read a bit before hand:
Main text
Baedan (Link)
More stuff
Towards the Queerest Insurrection (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection )
This text is also in Queer Ultraviolence – Bash Back (https://libcom.org/library/queer-ultraviolence-bash-back-anthology) some bits might be relevant as well.
Some action group influenced by queer nihilism, for inspiration:
Everything is going to shit anyways – Fag Mob
https://downandoutdistro.noblogs.org/files/2019/02/fmob3.pdf
!COVID19 safety measures!
We will be meeting in the gym this week to make sure we can be safely distanced. Enter through the bookstore and we will direct you further. Please take your own face mask for safety. (if you forgot or still decide to come, we have some at the bookstore as well). We’ll do our best to facilitate it as covid19 and machosafe as possible.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible through the restaurant (there is also a suitable toilet). If you need anything special event- or location related during or before or after the event, let us know.
Next tram station is Anna Bijnslaan. Parking is difficult but possible in the area.
For Allergics: 2 cats live in De Samenscholing. Let us know is we can make it any better for you.
!! To our non queer participants !!!:
This session will be a discussion by and for queers – meaning that priority will be given to queer people. People who do not identify as queer and who wish to participate nevertheless can send an email beforehand (queerspreekuur@riseup.net). We will let you know by Friday 14.00 if the situation allows for your presence or not.
QSU 21/08 – This week: Talking Round about Relationship Anarchy from a QueerFem Perspective
This week: Talking Round about Relationship Anarchy from a QueerFem perspective! (English)
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Foreword: !COVID19 safety measurements and restriction have changed!
Foreword: !COVID19 safety measurements and restriction have changed!
Inside a restaurant max. 6 people are allowed. We ain’t a restaurant but our place is quite small – We hope for no rain, thus we can sit outside with appropriate distance. Please take your own mondkapje for safety. (if you forgot or still decide to come, we have some at the bookstore as well). We’ll do our best to facilitate it as covid19 and machosafe as possible.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible through the restaurant (there is also a suitable toilet). If you need anything special event- or locationrelated during or before or after the event, let us know.
Next Tramstation is Anna Bijnslaan. Adress is Beatrijsstraat 12! Parking is difficult but possible in the surroundings.
For Allergics: 2 cats live in De Samenscholing. Let us know is we can make it any better for you.
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This week we will talk about Relationship Anarchy.
What will it be about?
The content will be mainly related to a paper called ‘Thinking Relationship Anarchy from a Queer Feminist Approach’.
It is a text from 2018 by Roma De las Heras Gómez (you can find it under this link https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1360780418811965 or in this one ). She is a bi-lesbian feminist activist for non-conventional relationships and works on sex education and relationship anarchy.
The text is sociological research. We’re gonna make it more accessible in language. It is influenced by lesbian feminism and sexual theory.
Interesting to know: Relationship Anarchy is a philosophy of love but also a way of structuring affective bonds, breaking with norms and a political philosophy – we’ll go deeper into that last point on friday!
Which format will it take?
We will talk about the text, there will be a introduction and or small summary of it. We could also combine it with reading or findings of your own about this topic, so feel free to bring what you know and feel invited to read the text beforehand 🙂
!!! To our non queer participants !!!:
This session will be a discussion by and for queers – meaning that priority will be given to queer people. People who do not identify as queer and who wish to participate nevertheless can send an email beforehand (queerspreekuur@riseup.net). We will let you know by Friday 14.00 if the situation allows for your presence or not.
xoxo QSU
Free software and digital self-defence skill sharing
Free software and digital self-defence skill sharing tomorrow from 15:00 to 19:00 at the boekenwinkel Opstand. Come if you like to learn or show how to install and set up Linux (alternative to Windows and Mac), LineageOS (Android without Google apps), encrypted email and other relevant software. Also a place for discussing these topics. To be repeated every Friday.