{"id":7979,"date":"2018-08-02T04:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/the-circle\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T04:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T04:10:15","slug":"the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CIRCLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

European-flavored chips, gas station Nazis, bell hooks “all about love,” the German literary establishment: in this text<\/a>, Olivia Wenzel, a playwright and performer from Berlin, writes about her writing between things like these. And about the CIRCLE, I am reluctant to say “lese-kreis”; it sounds stuffy and like the club der toten dichter. we also discuss music, art, films, series, academic theories.” <\/em>as a place where strategies are developed. Against the annoying falseness of diversity performance in the literature business, against invisible and perfidious teachers, the fear of racist violence, whiteness as a universal norm. Fortunately, there is the CIRCLE – “we are so far five to seven people from different disciplines and of similar age, meeting about once a month. no one in our circle – so far, unfortunately, only i call us mysteriously “THE CIRCLE” – is white. that feels surprisingly good.”<\/em><\/p>\n

DER KREIS is here a place of exchange, of strengthening assembly or of forward planning in the face of racist structures and (everyday) aggression. It is a shelter and at the same time a place to question one’s own socialization, “when preparing the reading, i once imagined discussing these excerpts with THE CIRCLE. my view of the texts changed immediately. i caught two passages in the careless use of racialized ascriptions, shortened them bashfully, rephrased.”<\/em><\/p>\n

We have already presented another text by Olivia Wenzel as a reading recording here<\/a>, this one appeared on the blog “DAS” DARF MAN* JA WOHL (NOCH) SCHREIBEN M\u00dcSSEN?!1″ <\/a>by Kabeljau & Dorsch <\/a>. You can read an interview with the author from 2013 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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