ARE WE AFRAID OF QUEER JOY? | Talk with director Harvey Rabbit | Eintritt freiSamstag | 24.05. | 15:30 Uhr | Kleines Bali | English

"Are We Afraid of Queer Joy?" is a rallying cry against the normalization of queer pain in film and media. In this lecture-performance, Harvey Rabbit exposes how systemic oppression and internalized narratives have made tragedy the expected currency of queer storytelling. This lecture-performance explores the historical contexts that have kept tragedy at the forefront of our narratives and demands we reclaim our right to joy, pleasure, and liberation on screen.

Harvey Rabbit is a writer, director, producer, and intimacy coordinator whose work centers the queer and trans experience. His feature film, “Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe” premiered at IFFR in 2023 and won awards at both Iris Film Prize and the Hacker Porn Film Festival. He produced the award-winning film We Are the Fucking World (2018, Erika Lust) and served as an intimacy coordinator for the TV series Blutige Anfänger (ZDF, 2024.) He believes queer and trans people deserve to live long and happy lives and to see ourselves represented as such.