Katharina Wiedlack

Katharina Wiedlack is a Gender, Queer and Cultural Studies scholar, currently working at the University of Vienna. Next to her work on transnational American Studies, queer and feminist theory, Critical Whiteness and Disability Studies, and popular culture, she is collaborating in artistic and activist projects in the post-Soviet context.

http://katharinawiedlack.com/

Lesben, Schwuchtel, and Creative Punctuation: Queer(ing) the German Language

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Life & Language: the Dictionary of the Queer International (6/10)

Lesben, Schwuchtel, and Creative Punctuation: Queer(ing) the German Language

Written by Katharina Wiedlack and Tania Zabolotnaya, Illustrated by Hagra

The emergence of queer terminology in a language as gendered as German calls for creative appropriation and disruptive recombination.