Tomorrow, I am presenting at the Bethanien with a couple of other sex workers/activists. I am excited, for what I think may be the most in-depth presentation I have done yet on this trip, including a more complicated discussion on sex work versus human trafficking.
I also have another interview to transcribe – this one with Simone from Hydra…but I have not had enough computer/internet time to finish transcribing even the first one, so those interviews may not make it up until after I return to the U.S.
In the meantime, I have been spending time with the lovely queers and activists of Berlin, as well as meeting up with a dear old friend from days as an exchange student here. Marko and I have also braved the increasing cold in order to visit the graves of my favorite German playwrigts, Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Mueller. These two have inspired me immensely, both politically and artistically…so they got flowers, and even a ritualistic pouring of the Club Mate I had been drinking. (Club Mate is kinda like the german version of red bull – its a soda made from yerba mate. Since I have been traveling, all my healthy habits have been replaced with bad ones. ) If anything would awaken Bertolt Brecht for a conversation, I figured it would be Club Mate.
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