2:00-3:30 PM, the Gym
A story about the piss drinker in Berlin’s night club Berghain, internet gossip, mythology, the genocide in Palestine, gender transitioning, obsession and preferences and how far you can go to make a dream come true.
When considering trans and transitioning an act of desire, instead of having to defend it as a lifesaving urgency, what playful love arises?
Simon(e) van Saarloos is a writer, artistic collaborator and curator. They are the author of "Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto" (2023); "Take ‘Em Down. Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting" (2021) and "Playing Monogamy" (2019) as well as several books in Dutch. Their writing has appeared in numerous co-edited volumes, academic journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues. Van Saarloos also writes fiction and theater and is currently writing a new book for AK Press, titled "Trans Despair".