Queer Death Cafe with Hini Hanara and Victoria Spence

The English term “queer” is etymologically related to the German “quer”, which means at a slant, tilted, off-centre or diagonal. While most often used today to describe non-normative sexual and gender identities, queer may also help us to think otherwise about death and dying and their consequences for how we live our lives.

Regardless of how we might identify as sexual or gendered beings, can death and dying themselves be thought of as queer experiences, as giving us the opportunity to open ourselves to a kind of queer thinking? How do they invite us to question the mainstream of everyday life and compel us to think otherwise about who we are, where we come from and what we think is important? How can a queer approach to death and dying help us to undo the hold of capitalism and racism on our societies and help us to become more inclusive, less judgemental and community-minded?

Join Hini Hanara and Victoria Spence for a fascinating discussion of the intersections between queerness, death and dying and de-colonisation.