Movement stories of queers of color in Germany
"Not the First" brings together movement stories of queer Black people and People of Color in Germany from the 1980s to the present day. The narratives of contemporary witnesses themselves become the focus of historiography.
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The volume sees itself as an activist intervention in a cis-heteronormative history of anti-racist struggles and a white narrative of queer history. The book is both a movement archive and a contribution to a queer-of-color critical perspective in the German-speaking context.
The texts provide testimony and inspiration for current and future generations of queers of color in their struggles against capitalism, racism, queer hostility, sexism and for emancipatory struggles.
Edited by Tarek Shukrallah with contributions by: Amir Saëmian, Birol Işık, Cihangir Gümüstürkmen, İpek İpekçioğlu, Jasco Viefhues, Jasmin Eding, Jin Haritaworn, Katharina Oguntoye, Koray Yılmaz-Günay, Mina Jawad, Newroz Çelik, Paisley Dalton, Saideh Saadat-Lendle, Sarnt Utamachote, Thao Ho, Tsepo Bollwinkel-Keele, Wassan Ali and Zezé Soares.
Tarek Shukrallah is a political and social scientist, community organizer and author. Shukrallah's research interests include queer-of-color critical perspectives, queer movement history and intersectionality in Germany as well as sexual politics and political transformation in North Africa. Tarek Shukrallah lives in Berlin and Tunis.
A cooperation project of VER/SAMMELN
ANTIRACIST FIGHTS and the Gay Museum Berlin
