18/05/2016 | Writer: Kaos GL
Main programme will start on 20th May: Desire challenges the world!
The program for the Kaos GL Association’s 11th International Anti-Homophobia Meeting started with Civil Society and Local Administrations Forum for LGBTI Equality. Main programme will start on 20th May: Desire challenges the world!
Photo Credit: Sevra Nihal Unal
May 17th, the day homosexuality was removed from the classification “illness”, has come to be celebrated since 2004 as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
In dedication to the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), May 17, Kaos GL has been coordinating the “Anti-Homophobia Meeting” since 2006.
Starting event: Civil Society and Local Administrations Forum for LGBTI Equality
The 11th International Anti-Homophobia Meeting started in Ankara on May 17 and will end at 22th. This year “Anti-Homophobia Meeting”s first event was the Civil Society and Local Administrations Forum for LGBTI Equality. Dutch Ambassador Cornelis van Rij, Murat Koylu from Kaos GL, Elif Avci from Istanbul Sisli Municipality Equality Committee, Juul van Hoof from Rainbow Cities Network, Sedef Cakmak from Istanbul Besiktas Municipality, Sebahat Genctarih Cebe from Mersin Akdeniz Municipality, Ezgi Kocak from KaDER, Ikbal Polat from Istanbul Kadikoy Municipality, Dide Tayfur from Ankara Cankaya Municipality, Nuray Ergunes From Istanbul University, Tuna Sahin from Mersin Akdeniz Municipality, Hakan Ozkan from Kaos GL, IGLYO Board Member Joshua McCormick, Erdem Gursu from İzmir Black Pink Triangle and Ilja de Jong from COC Zwolle talked at the forum.
Media School
The Anti-Homophobia Meeting will continue with the Media School and the main programme. Media School will host several reporters of KaosGL.org and there will be workshops on interview techniques, digital security and mobile photograhpy.
Main programme: Desire challenges the world!
Meeting’s main programme will focus on “desire”:
“Desire is an event against persons, identities and norms. It is process rather than structures. It is a heterogeneous flow that operates through bodies. As long as a body maintains desiring against the movement of internal and external forces that impose norms by organizing and regulating it, and it draws a line of flight from these captures that try to stabilize it, it stays alive. For this reason, desire as a process does not describe an identical body but gives us an intuition about what a body is about to become or what it will be.
“As long as the body desires, it manifests its own active power against the organizing forces that are intertwined with social structures, surrounded by this structures, empowered by judicial privileges, impregnated to heteronormative organizations and tamed by the forms of institutionalisation that draws a line excluding the continuity of its power to desire. All kinds of politics and institutional structures which do not concern about our bodily desires and the tendencies satisfying these desires but aim to reform and so keep under control them are condemned to be the target of our criticisms. The flows of desires cannot be fixed under the auspices of the privileged few.
“By these concerns, within the context of “International Meeting Against Homofobia”, we call you to discuss the possibilities of a queer reading in the context of the desire production of bodies, social movements and institutional actions.”
The full program of the 11th International Anti-Homophobia Meeting, “Desire challenges the world! A Plateau Named Desire: Against the Dominance in Institutions, Civil Society and Philosophy” is as follows:
MAY 20-22, FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Ankara Holiday Inn Hotel
MAY 20, FRIDAY
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop: Desiring the Opression
Ekrem Duzen
18:00- 20:00
Desire Politics of Social Movements and Institutions
Moderator: Aylime Asli Demir
Speakers:
Aksu Bora
Selçuk Candansayar
Serhat Celal Birdal
Melek Göregenli
MAY 21, SATURDAY
Opening Speech:
14:00-14:30
Annamarie Jagose : Queering the Desire
14:30-16:00
Queer Ethics of Freak
Speaker: Patricia Maccormack
Moderator: Ahmet Murat Aytaç
16:30- 18:00
Clinical and Critical Deviance
Speaker: Zafer Aracagök
Moderator: Ayşe Uslu
18:15- 19:00
The Award Ceremony of 11th Women to Women Story Contest
22:00
Party: Mz Sunday Luv – Dj Lilith
Parya, Olgunlar Street 18/A
MAY 22, SUNDAY
16:00 – 19:00
LGBTI Soccer Tournament
Dikmen Stadium
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