trans, inter, non-binary kino

In times of growing global hostility towards queer and trans people, community spaces can be significant and empowering. We want to create such a place with tink and will be showing films on September 6th and 7th with a focus on the realities of trans, inter, and non-binary people.

The different perspectives and visions in the films touch on themes such as community and chosen family, recognition and friendship. They can be funny, as well as showing normal, sometimes hostile, everyday life, dealing with the past and asking how we want to face it. And sometimes it’s simply about defiance and the will not to give up, but to keep going.

tink was organized by a group of tin and cis people. It will feature a selection of films that approach the diverse topics from an artistic, documentary, biographical, and political perspective. Our selection was particularly influenced by films that were largely created by the communities themselves, because telling one’s own stories is also a form of self-empowerment.

tink is intended to be a community space for meeting and connecting.

tink poster: light green background with a purple illustration of a thistle in front of it, red lettering: trans inter non-binary kino.

We are launching tink at a time when an increasing number of autocracies are establishing themselves around the world. Governments are normalizing the deliberate and intentional disregard of applicable (human) rights. Meanwhile, not only in this country are we increasingly threatened by nationalist-conservative to fascist movements and parties with anti-queer, racist, and anti-Semitic agendas, among other things.

The President of the Bundestag promptly decided to ban the rainbow flag during the CSD in the Bundestag and enforced this ban with the help of the police.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior recently presented a draft law that provides for a special register for all those who make use of the Self-Determination Act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz), thus continuing the official persecution of queer people as alleged potential criminals, which was introduced during the German Empire as the Pink Lists (Rosa Listen).

We are still appalled by the unlawful extradition of the non-binary anti-fascist Maja T. to anti-queer Hungary, which the EU already said in 2020 was experiencing a “decline in democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights.” Maja has been held in solitary confinement there for over a year now, without the Federal Republic of Germany making any serious efforts to secure their return.

Such developments can only be countered with a consistent anti-fascist stance.

In this sense, we too are anti-fascist.

Looking forward to tink,

Your tink organization team

Purple illustration of a thistle.

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