Last Saturday`s Dyke Trans March in Berlin was a blast! Click the link for reading a short intro to the aims of the march. I would estimate we were about 200 people, walking from the Schwarzer Kanal wagon place all the way through Kreuzberg to the Görlitzer subway station, making lots of noise and people stare at us agape. There was a „marching band“ with samba instruments that did great angry chants and acapella versions of popular songs such as Blur`s „Girls and Boys“ or LeTigre`s „Viz“ or Salt`n`Pepa`s „None of your business“. By the time we arrived at Kottbusser Tor half the people could sing/yell along and built some pretty impressive choir there. There were speeches from the Schwarzer Kanal people, as their lesbian-trans-wagonplace is under constant threat of eviction by the Berlin city administration, and from the transgender network berlin about the political situation of trans- and inter-identifying people here. I will add links to their speeches later, as soon as I find them on this internet…
Unfortunately the police did not allow us to walk all the way to the end of the route to Görlitzer Park, so we had to have the last speeches in proximity to the Kreuzberg fire squad building. However, that did not really taint our good time and my feeling that we had just occupied the minds of a lot of people in the streets for some time.. The street party was succeeded by an awesome dance party at the subversiv into early morning hours.Somewhere in between there were some Kalashnikovs (see picture, Luxusowa Vodka, lemon, espresso and sugar) and Zywiecs at the Olfe, where the light allowed us to take some pretty darn good pictures.
On the hottest day of the year in Berlin I would like to devote this supra-normal drink picture to Twisty at I blame the patriarchy, who has just returned to blogging after spending some time in the chilly surgery department. Cheers!
tag: dyke trans march, BerlinUnfortunately the police did not allow us to walk all the way to the end of the route to Görlitzer Park, so we had to have the last speeches in proximity to the Kreuzberg fire squad building. However, that did not really taint our good time and my feeling that we had just occupied the minds of a lot of people in the streets for some time.. The street party was succeeded by an awesome dance party at the subversiv into early morning hours.Somewhere in between there were some Kalashnikovs (see picture, Luxusowa Vodka, lemon, espresso and sugar) and Zywiecs at the Olfe, where the light allowed us to take some pretty darn good pictures.
On the hottest day of the year in Berlin I would like to devote this supra-normal drink picture to Twisty at I blame the patriarchy, who has just returned to blogging after spending some time in the chilly surgery department. Cheers!
