"The March"

Colonization was a process that happened inside and outside the colonizer’s land. It was a process endured by those whose individual and collective identities, did not coincide with the heteronormative culture of the colonizers.

Lands were colonized, knowledge was colonized, identities were colonized, bodies were colonized. Two options remained: to resist and suffer, or to adapt and disappear.

 “The March” attempts to decolonize space and body. For the BIPOC LGBTQ+, it aims to acknowledge the plight colonialism had on their bodies, their minds, and their ancestors,  by honoring  their right to exist.

For the white LGBTQ+, it dives into the colonial heritage that has been transmitted, while acknowledging its forcefully and fatally imposed doctrine of gender and sexuality.  

“The March” invites the museum visitors to a revolution. A revolution that aims to dismantle the imperial space, consciously recreated by the Berlin Palace, by exposing the polarizing fissure revealed when those oppressed and marginalized by its legacy inhabit that space.

Research Questions

What is identity? Who defines identity?
What is privilege? What is normativity? What is marginalization?
What are the long term psychological effects of systemic marginalization?
How does systemic marginalization affect one’s sense of identity?
What does it mean to occupy a space that represents the colonial violence, attempted genocide, and erasure of QTBIPOC bodies, and the forced reform and sterilization of QT white bodies?
Is it enough to just occupy oppressive spaces with the very people that these spaces tried to erase? How can we hold monuments, colonial institutions accountable for their crimes?
Where do QTBIPOC people find hope, validation and closure? Is there space for celebration in face of ongoing marginalization? Are mourning and celebration interlinked in the life experiences of QTBIPOC individuals? Can the pre-colonial history and tragedy of these communities be reconciled?