Against the backdrop of the intensifying debates about 'gendering' and the bans in Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein on using gender-inclusive language with special characters in educational and administrative contexts, the aim of the symposium is to provide a professional and legal assessment. The necessity arises from the professional theoretical perspective of social work and is additionally underpinned by the update of the Child and Youth Welfare Act of 2021. Here, the mandate is formulated to "take into account the different life situations of girls, boys and transgender, non-binary and intersex young people, to reduce disadvantages and to promote gender equality" (Section 9 SGB VIII), which is now being thwarted and undermined.
The network "Verbinden & Verbünden", the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in cooperation with the Gender and Women's Research Center of the Hessian Universities (gFFZ) invite you to a professional exchange. We would like to open up spaces for discussion about the role and possible uses of inclusive and discrimination-sensitive language in social work between professionals, students, representatives of initiatives, teachers and researchers. The focus is on initiatives in Hesse and Saxony. Professional policy strategies will also be considered.
The event will be held in German and is free of charge. It is possible to take part either in person or online. This must be indicated in the registration form and taken into account in the workshop selection. We look forward to active participation in presence at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and online at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz.
Registration information will follow in October 2024.
Organized and conceived by Verbinden & Verbünden - intersectional queerfeminist perspectives in social work. For the network: Kerstin Balkow, Sannik Ben Dehler, Gudrun Ehlert, Ioanna Menhard, Alexandra Rau, Monique Ritter, Elke Schimpf
The organizers reserve the right to make use of their domiciliary rights (which also apply to the online rooms) and to deny participation in the event to persons who are associated with right-wing organizations and/or the right-wing scene or who attract attention through anti-queer, sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, ableist and other inhuman statements.
