Anke Vromen (she/her) is a writer, dramaturg and costume designer based in Amsterdam. Her works, both in text and textiles, are inspired by creativity in nature, queerculture and traditional craftmanship. In her writing, Anke explores themes such as the impact of family history and queer imagination. Through her interdisciplinary practice, Anke is looking for new perspectives on the old, the discarded and the mundane.

In her paintings and drawings, Marguerite Fresq (b. 1995, Wilrijk) explores regimes of truth constructed by dominant social institutions and practices. Stemming from a desire to grasp how it is that the social body is really and materially shaped through power relations, her work engages with the very effects of those processes that govern our bodies and delimit the thinkable and the sayable. Based on existing images selected from a variety of sources, her subjects often appear quiet and isolated, suggesting experiences and recollections of shame, guilt or alienation. She is currently working on a documentary about the means that allow us to see delimiting conditions, to alter course and to produce alternative epistemologies that escape the hegemonic order.

It takes place in Paris, in a building that houses both the city’s lesbian archive and a support center for female victims of sexist and sexual violence. Mixed with autobiographical fragments, her film shows a diverse array of personal stories that, somewhere in their fragile intersection, shed light onto one another.

Ninnoc Wouters (they/them) is a queer historian, studying the dynamics of identity, gender and sexuality in feminist and queer communities. Their interests range from 17th century gender benders to queer pleasure in Amsterdam’s House scene in the 1990s. Through their research, they aim to explore and shed light on the resistance, subversive practices, and resilience of women and queer people throughout history. They are currently working on finishing their master’s degree in history with a project about second wave feminism, gender and sexuality in the first Women’s House in Amsterdam.

This event is part of Queer Bodies, a programme series curated by writer, director, theatre- and filmmaker Tine Tabak. In their work, Tine explores the queer body as a source of knowledge and storytelling, bringing together literature, philosophy, and art. With Queer Bodies, they create a space where academic discourse and artistic practice meet, offering a platform for queer voices, histories, and perspectives.