Witches, Bitches, It-Girls – Wie patriarchale Mythen uns bis heute prägen; Madame Courage – Diversität und Demokratie weiblicher Stimmen

In the organizer's words:

In her book "Witches, Bitches, It-Girls", Rebekka Endler, renowned journalist and author, reveals how patriarchal images of women and myths still shape our everyday lives and thinking today. With wit, expertise and fighting spirit, she traces the origins of discriminatory terms, analyzes the male gaze and exposes how women are defamed as witches, bitches or it-girls in order to draw social boundaries. Endler encourages us to question these structures, form alliances and shape social change.

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