In that sense, yes. Collaborative Play Reading

What language does propaganda speak? Where does our desire to hear, see, and feel the Other begin and end? Which languages do you react to, and which ones can be ignored in the background? Do you own these languages?

Masha Beketova and Ju Bavyka met in 2022 at the PostOst Kongress near Göttingen, where a bunch of people, queer and non-queer, with cultural connections to the former European East were trying to figure out what connects them beyond the usual migrant identity concepts. Masha has cultural ties to Ukraine and lives in Berlin, Germany. Ju has cultural ties to Kazakhstan and Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia, on Gadigal Land. After the Kongress, they exchanged 1368 text messages, 56 photos, 6 videos and 8 voice messages, 30 links and 1 gif over multiple time zones. Using this correspondence, they developed the experimental text, here called “В этом смысле да. an Intersectional Play.”

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„History Unit: Reframing Queer Narratives in Media“ is a project of the “Education Agenda on NS-Injustice” funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF).