Please note that the medium of the audiowalk is very immersive, especially through the use of 3D sound. Therefore, an audiowalk can be perceived as more direct and intense than watching a movie, for example.
The 80-minute audiowalk contains a lot of very dense discussions about historical and contemporary violence, including sexualized, racist (that includes antisemitic), ableist, queerphobic and class-based violence. Geteilte Welten takes an intersectional approach that emphasizes the different entanglements of these forms of violence. In the following some of the forms of violence that are dealt with primarily in the respective tracks are listed. This will hopefully help listeners affected by violence to decide for themselves whether and how they want to experience the audio walk.
- Intro
- Aktion T4: Ableism, anti-Black racism
- Abuela Kueka: Antsemitism, anti-Muslim racism, anti-Roma racism, enslavement, colonial violence
- Löwengruppe: Misogyny, descriptions of sexualised violence against women, ableism
- Rom*nja & Sinti*zze: Anti-Roma racism
- Kein Vergessen: Descriptions of right-wing extremist violence against migrant and migrantised people, descriptions of flight crossing the Mediterranean
- Homomahnmal: Queerphobia, misogyny, racism
- of Europe: Antisemitism, racism
Please take care of yourself. Make sure you feel relatively comfortable and can handle the information. Take a friend with you or make sure you have someone to talk to after the audiowalk. Stay hydrated.
Don’t forget that you can stop the audiowalk or take a break at any time.
Language
I thought long and hard about how to tell these stories without repeating the violence through language.
Blatant racist, sexist and ableist language is largely avoided. However, I also believe that it makes sense to use certain terms in their specific historical contexts or to cite quotes from perpetrators in order to gain a better understanding of the stories in question and their continued impact in the present. Whenever this is the case, the quotation marks are made audible.
I use self-designations of groups. Since no community is homogeneous, the terms they use for themselves and their stories also vary. I refer primarily to the knowledge productions of community activists and therefore mainly use the terms they choose.
In order to include all genders, I mostly use adjectives to describe groups, e.g. “Romani people” or alternate between the feminine, e.g. “Romnja and Sintizze”, and the masculine, e.g. “Roma and Sinti”.
I use the word “queer” when referring to practices that deviate from the (imposed) ideal heterosexuality. I am aware that the term had not been reclaimed at the time and people most likely did not self-identify as queers. I do not wish to impose a queer identity on these people. To the contrary, I understand queer as a verb that can be used for describing different non-heterosexual acts and desires, including those of people who would otherwise self-identify as straight.
Further information on language and content can be found under “Thanks and references”