Interview with Fluff (Mintweb)

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What do you do in your project? What forms of discrimination and violence play a role in your work?

We are Minzgespinst, a platform that primarily offers sensitization and empowerment in the field of gender justice and inclusion. We also offer education and training in the field of practical awareness work. The goal is to intersectionally connect queer and disabled spaces.

What is your function in your project? What is your personal focus? Have you already had experience with long-term stakeholder support or transformative processes?

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I give most of the events and organize the publications on the website as well as the organizational planning in the background. My focus is mainly on intersection between queerness and neurodivergence.

What kind of educational formats do you offer? Who is the audience? How would you describe the impact of your work? Do you have any long-term formats?

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We offer different formats, from workshops lasting several hours to several days, lectures, advanced and further training, but also concept development, guidelines and structural reorganization.

In the long term, we mainly offer individual support to affected persons who, for example, are discriminated against in their everyday working life, in structures or organizations and/or need support in the area of neurodivergence/queerness.

I think that our events are primarily meant to provide impetus, while one-on-one mentoring can help people go through life with fewer experiences of discrimination because we can "buffer" them and that's where a peer-to-peer perspective helps people feel less alone and at the mercy of others.

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How do you deal with the capacities you have? What are the main difficulties, what makes you tired?

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What is tiring is the feeling of having to start all over again. Every process is accompanied by setbacks and often, especially in the field of neurodivergence, new conflicts arise again and again because this barrier is not seen. "Yes, this is also part of barriers." Is probably most often said sentence.

Within the team, we try to engage in regular exchanges and also to catch up with each other, but also to criticize in solidarity and to observe our own limits. At the same time, it also helps to have a network and to listen to other perspectives.

How would you describe the future perspective on your work? What factors slow down your work? What would be socially necessary to make your work superfluous?

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What would be socially necessary is a radical and fundamental rethinking of how power structures, but also barriers within communication, can and should be dealt with. Until then, what we do is always just dripping water on hot stones.

I think that especially the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness often leads to communication barriers, loneliness, isolation and conflicts. It is important that we can continue to work in solidarity and initiate changes in the long term.

Slowing down.......the current backlash, capitalism in general, precarious conditions.

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