Our very first relationship is that with our biological mother. None shapes us as much as this one: We grow up in her womb, it is she who nurtures us. We are one, protected from the world, which has so far only come to us in muted form. Until our peaceful idyll comes to an abrupt end, when the first trauma of our lives occurs, the first act of (maternal?) violence: happy birthday! We are expelled, squeezed out, torn into the glaring, cold reality. No longer protected from the hands that reach for us.

In mother octopus, two queer performers explore the relationship to their mothers by approaching them through drag. In doing so, they autobiographically examine the traumas caused by their gender-stereotypical upbringing. In a performative dialogue about parenthood, they create a queer-positive family model that invites parents and children, mothers and queers to an intergenerational exchange. In doing so, mother octopus approaches motherhood from a queer-feminist perspective in which motherhood has no gender and asks: how can mothers and queers be allies in the fight against patriarchy?


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𝙱𝚈 & 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷: 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚜 [𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝, 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎]; 𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚛 [𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝, 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚢]; 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚘 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊 [𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝, 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎]; 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚕ü𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚕 𝙵𝚞𝚗𝚔 [𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎]; 𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚁ü𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 [𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍]; 𝙻𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝙽𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎𝚗 [𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘].


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