Screening: REBEL DYKES

The film tells the story of a group of London post-punk rebel dykes who met at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp . In a punky mix of animation, archive footage and current interviews, a picture of lesbian queer London in the 1980s emerges: squatting, feminism, BDSM, clubs, bars, activism against Thatcher and the catastrophic AIDS policy of the time, drag performances, motorcycles, a lesbian storming of the BBC, etc., and a soundtrack with bands such as Poison Girls, The Brendas, The Brendan and the Rebel Dykes. and a soundtrack featuring bands such as Poison Girls, The Brendas, The Sleeze Sisters, Sluts from Outer Space, Amy and the angels, Mouth Almighty, The Petticoats, Sister George, Well Oiled Sisters and the Gymslips.

REBEL DYKES (2021, OV English, 89m)
Director: Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams
Animation: Harri Shanahan
Production: Siobhan Fahey (riot productions)

All dates of the lecture series
Unless otherwise stated: Thursdays, 4 to 5:30 pm in presence, lecture hall G of the lecture hall building 105 of the University of Cologne

23 Apr
COOPERATION with the IFFF (International Women's Film Festival) 16 - 18.30h Filmforum NRW: Between Goodbyes (2024) Screening and talk with Anja S. Michaelsen (HU Berlin) & protagonist Mieke Murkes

30 Apr
Art in dialog with the world: An exchange about music, representation and agency with Frederic Rukes & Paulina Andrade Schnettler (both a.r.t.e.s., UzK)

07 May
ONLINE: Almost 100 and almost 90 years old. Feminist essays by Virginia Woolf on self-determination and fascization. With Andrea Maihofer (Uni Basel) & Isabell Lorey (KHM)

21 May
16 - 18.30h: Introduction to decolonial campus tours
with Rahab Njeri, Jules Bieber & Carlos Hufschlag (all ChanGe Department, UoC)

11 Jun
Archives and libraries as a place of empowerment - An example of empowering practice at the Theodor-Wonja-Michael-Bibliothek. With Paulina Andrade-Schnettler (a.r.t.e.s., UoC) & Glenda Obermuller (TWMB)

18 Jun
19h: Movie Night in the auditorium of the KHM: Rebel Dykes,
Documentary (2021) 89 min, original English version

25 Jun
What the rainbow has to do with Trinh T. Minh-ha, Donna Haraway & Karen Barad. With Lisa Krall (Impact, UoC) & Julia Scholz (GeStik, UoC)

02 Jul
50 years of "Histoire de la Sexualité" - A re-reading
with Dirk Schulz & Karo Kalmbach (both GeStik, UoC)

09 Jul
19h: Movie Night in the auditorium of the KHM: Born in Flames,
Feature film (1983), 90 min, original English version with German subtitles

16 Jul
"Gender Studies Otherwise? - Reflections and Practices of Decolonization". An author talk
with Denise Bergold-Caldwell (Uni Innsbrück) & Susanne Völker (GeStik, UzK)

23 Jul
"Better alive than normal!" History and positions of the German-speaking disability movement with Sarah Karim (HU Berlin)