Queer-Feminist Solidarity in Times of Despair?

ATGENDER in conversation with Katharina Wiedlack

Abstract

After years of collaborative thinking about queer and feminist solidarity across the West/East divide, Katharina argued that queer feminist solidarity needs to be thought of as working together through difference, rather than as charity or based on shared identity and similarity. With the playful and provocative formulation of “fucking solidarity”(Wiedlack 2019), she developed a conceptualization of queer-feminist solidarity as a shared labor process acknowledging both material question about resources, skills and privileges and feelings of frustrations, disappointment and failures as intrinsic to solidarity work. What has changed since then? How does this concept help us think about queer-feminist solidarity now?