Tania Zabolotnaya

Tania Zabolotnaya is a queer-feminist activist and researcher. Having a background in public relations and transcultural communications, they are currently studying interpreting at the University of Vienna. In their research they focus on questions of in/visibility, queer ways of living and community building within the post-Soviet space and beyond.

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.