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Performing the “quing of berlin”: transnational digital interfaces in queer feminist protest culture

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Feminist Media Studies
Issue number1
Volume16
Number of pages22
Pages (from-to)128-149
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date31/10/15
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper employs the figure of the “interface” to explore the work of German feminist rapper and spoken-word performer Sookee (Nora Hantzsch), who constitutes an ideal case-study for examining the interface between digital technologies, transnational feminisms, and local activism. Sookee is an underground hip-hop artist and queer political activist in Berlin, a location which features in her work as a site of subcultural dissent and contested identities. Sookee is also an academic; a youth outreach worker; a significant online presence; and an international creative collaborator. As such, she navigates the interfaces between multiple social groups, media, discourses, and cultural contexts—regional, national, and transnational. This article focuses on the digital circulations of Sookee’s material against the backdrop of her local performative and activist work. Her transnational collaborations with women MCs and poets from South Africa and America, as well as Europe, celebrate cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic difference by bringing in a diverse range of feminist voices to the German context.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Media Studies on 31/10/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14680777.2015.1093145