In The Dream House: Rituals for De-marginalizing the Intersection of Race & Healthcare responds with a series on feminist healthcare migrant revolts in Germany reflecting on historical protests, rituals and therapies at the intersections of race, politics and care work. The project proposes collective somatic tools for transformational holistic justice creating spaces for safe encounters reflecting on frameworks of solidarity and community.

curated by Anguezome Nze Mba Bikoro

Carmen Maria Machado’s “In The Dream House” reflects the urgency of historical trauma narratives through archived embodiment and re-imagining forensic tools through ephemeral evidence. She determines that the court systems negate and make insignificant the experiences of queer experiences inside environments of domestic and institutional predatory abuse that are combined with hetero-normative prejudices. This neglect inside the juridicial and healthcare systems disregards migrant experiences and effective tools for political reparations and embodied recovery. Furthermore Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1989 article “De-marginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of anti-discrimination doctrine and anti-racist politics”, describes the experiences of migrant women which occurs in movements that are framed by dominant narratives of discrimination. This marginalisation disregards and complicates forms of intersectionalities and in the context of Europe’s anti-racist policies, notably towards migrant diasporic populations where this discourse often fails to integrate within court and healthcare systems to date. Feminist activists like Semra Ertan, May-Ayim and queer publishing collectives like Conditions (1970) and Azalea (1980) archive the histories of mental health experiences which has been largely neglected inside our current public educational discourse. This erasure testifies to how migrant communities disappear from national public data and how public health services deliberately ignore collective experiences rendering ‘peripheral’ populations insignificant. The series reflects on the histories of discrimination in healthcare and justice systems and the seemingly missing archives of migrant experiences, mental health and archival restitution work. Interventions focus on collective modes of somatic empowerment and healing in practice with professional resources to protect and inform trauma affected communities. In The Dream House transforms institutional and domestic trauma through collective gatherings for affected communities through six interventions at Ausland with somatic & artistic workshops, discussions, consultations, film screenings and rituals.

With Colleen Ndemeh, Abeni Asante, FrauHerr Meko, Pascale Obolo, Nasima Selim, Jennifer Kamau, Khalkha Ababacar Sy, Lydia Röder, Anguezomo Nze Mba Bikoro and more.

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