How to Recognize Queer Feminism? Queer Feminist Zine Workshop
You’re warmly welcomed to take part in a queer feminist zine workshop “How to Recognise Queer Feminism?” taking place at Kumu Art Museum, seminar room on the second floor. After the lecture “Queer Feminism as a Form of Resistance” by Aet Kuusik, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar will lead the zine workshop that explores queer feminist thinking through the zine medium. Lehtsaar will offer guidance, share their own practice and accompany participants as they create their zines.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/LtTdDSdXdYQ7YHaf8
Rooted in feminist and queer DIY cultures, zines – self-made mini magazines or booklets – have long been tools for self-expression, resistance and community building. They allow us to work freely with text, image and collage – no artistic background is required. You can experiment with zines and reflect on how artistic practice can become a tool for empowerment and reclaiming space. The finished zines will be replicated, printed and spread around the city in various cafés, cultural hotpots and shops for free.
Maria Izabella Lehtsaar is a non-binary artist based in Tallinn, who works primarily with underrepresented queer experience and narrative, often playing with the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Lehtsaar’s work catches the eye through softness, which loudly touches on subjects of gender performance and construction that creates a binary and lonely world.
Aet Kuusik is a junior researcher in linguistics at the University of Tartu. Their research interests focus on the intertwined relationships between power and language. Kuusik’s doctoral thesis deals with the representation of LGBT people in the Estonian language. Before entering doctoral studies, they worked at Feministeerium, a feminist media and advocacy organization, and is one of its founders. They have also curated exhibitions, worked as a dramaturg, and organized festivals focusing on queer studies and feminist issues.
The event is organised by Anna Demeter, Annika Haas and Mathilda Virtanen, students of the Estonian Academy of Arts and supported by the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and Kumu Art Museum.
