Das Recht auf gleiche Rechte; Madame Courage – Diversität und Demokratie weiblicher Stimmen

In the organizer's words:

Today, women have more rights and freedoms than ever before - but the reality is still very different. In her reading, Rukiye Cankiran, gender equality officer, cultural scientist and author, sheds light on the state of equality and talks about daily injustices and social hurdles. With a great deal of expertise, empathy and practical tips, she shows that equality is an issue for everyone. Her new book "The Right to Equal Rights" encourages people to take a critical look, question prejudices and stand up together for more justice. An evening for anyone interested in women's rights and a modern society.

With the new event series "Madame Courage - Diversity and Democracy of Female Voices", the Hamburg State Center for Political Education and the Kulturhaus Süderelbe invite you to rethink democratic courage from a female perspective. The focus is on four women whose literary, essayistic and academic works show how women today name violence, organize resistance, politicize language and demand equality in concrete terms.

Based on Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage", the series transfers the motif of civil courage to the present day: what does democratic courage look like when women in Belarus are at the forefront of protests, when care work is understood as a political act, when patriarchal myths in the media and everyday life are exposed or femicides are made visible as structural violence? The readings, lectures and talks open up a multifaceted approach to complex questions of power, justice and participation.

In the JoLa of the Kulturhaus Süderelbe, an open neighborhood space right next to the S-Bahn Neugraben (S3/S5), a forum for exchange is created in a post-migrant urban society in which diversity has long been a reality. Visitors with different biographies meet here to talk about women's rights, language and democracy and to look together for scope for action in everyday life.

A series of events organized by the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung and the Kulturhaus Süderelbe.