In this panel, we will discuss the topic of queer parenting with experts who also bring personal experience to the table. What are the current political successes and where are the obstacles? How do we live our identity as queer parents in our everyday lives and how do we express ourselves through various art forms? Following the panel discussion, there will be a reception where the speakers will be available for questions and you can network with other queer families and parents.
Panel language: German.

Speakers:

Serena O. Dankwa is currently a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Basel, with a particular focus on power-critical, Black feminist, and African concepts of sexuality, friendship, and intimacy. She has worked with various NGOs in the fields of development and migration and is the author of Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (Cambridge, 2021). She lives with her queer family in a housing collective in Bern.

Daniel Furter is the executive director of Pink Cross and advocates for the equality of LGBTIQ people in Switzerland. A current focus of his work is improving the legal and social security of “queer parenthood.” He lives in Bern and is part of a co-parenting rainbow family.

Liane Scherrer holds a leadership position in the transport sector. With her wife, she went through a long and turbulent journey to having their desired child, and they wish they had known earlier what they know today. Exchange and networking are very important to her, both professionally and personally. In Basel, she founded a network for women-loving women and an exchange group for rainbow families. She is currently advocating for improving the legal situation of lesbian mothers. She will soon become the mother of a son.

Electra Zacharias is head of legal counseling at TGNS. She brings her personal experience as a trans mother into her activism for the rights of trans* parents and also draws on her research on queer parenthood.

Moderation: Joelle Löw teaches and researches communication in professional contexts, with a focus on diversity and inclusion. She is also editor-in-chief of HAZ-Queer Magazin in Zurich. This year, she became the mother of twins.

Sign up for free childcare during the event

Free childcare will be provided from 5:00–6:30 PM for children between 3 and 10 years old.

Meeting point: 4:30 PM (30 minutes before the event starts) at Stadtkino Basel.

To make sure each child receives proper attention, registrations can only be accepted until October 5, 2025.
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