Reproductive Futures

Curation of the festival: Sophie Bauer, together with the Gunda Werner Institute, the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy, and Alisa Tretau with disruptif e.V. (Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger)
The two-day festival “Reproductive Futures. Feminist Visions for Just Care” brings together actors from science, art, activism, and practice to shed light on central questions about the future of reproduction, family, and care work in an interdisciplinary and intersectional way.
In the three program focuses on body, space, and time, we look at surrogacy, abortion, and anti-feminist attacks on reproductive rights, but also at care-centered infrastructures and the future of care.
 

Friday, November 21, 7:00 - 10:00 pm:
The Reproductive Futures Festival opens with the documentary "9-Month Contract" by Ketevan Vashagashvili — a deeply intimate portrayal of surrogacy, motherhood, and dignity in an unregulated reproductive industry in Tbilisi, Georgia. 
Following the screening, Amrita Pande will give a keynote presentation introducing her new report, "Mapping Global Surrogacy"..”  The evening will conclude with a panel discussion on surrogacy and the reproductive economy with Amrita Pande, Irina Herb, and Ketevan Vashagashvili, moderated by Derya Binisik from the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. 

This event on Friday evening will be held entirely in English and can be followed via livestream. Participants in the Livestream do not have to register.

Saturday, November 22, 11:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m:
On November 22, we will continue the day with various panels and installations on the topic of care and reproduction. The English-language panel “Reproductive bodies—Bodies of reproduction,” featuring Amrita Pande, Elizabeth Ngari from Women in Exile, and Jonte Lindemann from the gen-ethical network, among others, will ask the question of which bodies are actually allowed to reproduce in society—and which are structurally prevented from doing so. In the workshop on abortion, we will address concerns about abortion in Germany: what will happen to Paragraph 218, what constitutes a safe abortion, and what images of abortion are actually produced in the media?
We continue with a panel on care spaces and infrastructures, featuring Mareice Kaiser and Jo Lücke, among others. There will also be a workshop with a practical introduction to “reproductive justice,” and Alicia Baier will read from her book “Das Patriarchat im Uterus” (Patriarchy in the Uterus). In the early evening, curator and artist Alisa Tretau will present her new online project “Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger” (Not only mothers were pregnant) – contributors to the project will be present to read and perform their texts. At the same time, there will be an exhibition to visit (with tactile tour) and the opportunity to meet each other at the market of possibilities.
At the closing panel, featuring Susanne Schultz, Mike Laufenberg, Sophie Schwab and others, we ask ourselves: How can we shape a future that is caring and based on solidarity in times of increasing anti-feminism and growing social inequality?

There will be no Livestream on Saturday. Some of the event slots will be held in English and/or interpreted into German sign language. Please refer to the programme for event details.

location:
bUm
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21
10999 Berlin

contact:
Amina Nolte (sie/ihr)
senior programme officer sexual self-determination and reproductive justice
E nolte@boell.de