An invitation for groups and individuals!
We invite you to join us in organising the second annual Internationalist Queer Pride for Liberation planned for the 23rd of July 2022 — a revolutionary, queer-led protest that reclaims our voices and reasserts our presence in Berlin.
We comprise a network of queer groups, queer individuals, and the queer representatives of Berlin’s radical political collectives, all coming together to celebrate our existence and to demonstrate our ongoing resistance.
Coming from different experiences and perspectives, we are bonded by our shared struggle for a revolutionary world where all of us can live free from all levels of systemic oppression and discrimination: a world where our sexualities are freely expressed and explored; our identities are self-determined and are not traded in neoliberal markets, nor exploited to abet homonationalist politics. We come together to fight for a world where our bodies — and all bodies — are free to be, free to choose, and free to move. A world where there are no national borders, no weapons, no cops, and no wars. We strive for a world where access to resources is not a privilege but a fundamental right for everyone. A world where our societies stop living at the expense of other living beings and the planet.
Queer liberation can only be achieved through dismantling the systemic oppressions upon which our societies are built. We live queerness as rooted in our revolutionary politics: a rebellious existence that challenges the violence of the gender binary, normative body and sexual politics, pervasive ableism, colonial and imperial hegemonies, the criminalization of sex workers, the constant attacks on migrant lives, exploitation and precarity, sexism, transmisogyny and trans/misogynoir, and inherent and structural racism. In our radical queerness, we oppose the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the very few who continue to profit from centuries of exploitation, genocides, stolen lands, plundered resources, wars, and colonialism. Through our queerness, we imagine and redefine alternative ways of being, of living, of assembly and of organising. In the face of warfare, pestilence, and fascism, we stand firm in our determination to survive and thrive, united in revolutionary love and solidarity. We stand defiant and together! “None of us is free until all of us are free!”
Join us in organising this day of protest in celebration and affirmation of our inextricably connected struggles: a day of coming together to reclaim the streets, to rally the drumming of thousands of heartbeats, striking fear into the very foundations of this system.
Please note that *only* queers are invited to join the organizing meetings: queer individuals, queer collectives, and queer representatives of activist groups and collectives. Allies are expected and encouraged to provide support as long as they understand and respect that this is a queer-led protest, by and for queers.
Join us!
Our next meeting is on May 19th, at 19:00. For location, write us on Instagram (@iqpberlin) or via email on iqpb(at)riseup.net