Über Politik reden #3

Lass uns über Politik reden #3 (2017).

Literary Hub bringt ein schönes Essay von Stacey Williams über die (Un-)Möglichkeit politischer Neutralität in öffentlichen Räumen: „In ways small and large, I have been reminded that nothing about libraries is neutral. Not the desks or furniture that are sometimes built by incarcerated individuals who can’t protest their labor. Not the buildings, some of which lack physical access for individuals who can’t climb stairs or walk over uneven stones and bricks. […] Neutrality as we use it in libraries leaves people standing at the margins, demanding to be acknowledged as capable and professional, as human, as having histories and lived experiences reflective of the bodies we inhabit. Our bodies, like the bodies of knowledge we provide access to, are not and never were neutral.“

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