Queer Doc

In the organizer's words:

Consultation hour with in-house author Leonie Lorena Wyss

The format "Queer Doc" ("doc", short for "document" and "doctor") combines the topics that interest Leonie Lorena Wyss as an in-house author for a new play about chronic illness: Queerness, gender medicine and writing. In September, Leonie Lorena Wyss talks to Em Brett (PLUS e. V.) and Prof. Dr. phil. Karen Nolte (University of Heidelberg).

Em Brett is a psychologist at the counseling center PLUS e. V., which offers information and psychosocial services for lsbtiaq+ people, their relatives and professionals with contact points in Mannheim and Heidelberg. Karen Nolte is a medical historian and Director at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at Heidelberg University. Her research interests include the history of psychiatry and the history of the body and gender.

The discussion will focus on the (mis)diagnosis and neglect of queer and female bodies in medicine and research from both a historical and everyday practical perspective. From "hysteria" to "psychosomatic", it will become clear that bodies that deviate from a male, dual-gender norm are treated differently and pathologized. Why is this the case? What does "being ill" mean in such a system? And what specific effects does this have on the everyday lives of those affected?