Sprachseminar- gender-inclusive and non-racist models for daily German language use • 4 hours• Available by request

Marion Gerlind and Jenny Hilfer team-teach this seminar in which participants will learn how we can transform inequalities in German and English language into gender-inclusive and non-racist daily usage. Based on our research and previous work, Marion will present examples from Sprachgewaltige Frauen (Speak Out Powerful Women), a handbook on language she co-authored in Hamburg, Germany, and Jenny will present her findings of male biases in English lexicons.

We'll explore as a group how the use of gender in nouns and other options increase women’s visibility in German and how everyone of us can take active steps to abolish sexist and racist concepts in language and life. Our goal is to demonstrate that we can go beyond traditional representations of women and people of color by employing gender-inclusive and non-racist models in our work toward social change and justice.

• Language of the seminar: German and English

• Minimum 6 participants

• Teacher: Marion Gerlind & Jennifer Hilfer