Mino creates art using words and combines this with intersectional feminist topics. They write poetry, political texts, and are currently working on a book. They write about whatever they are feeling and about what other people share with them about their feelings: “My approach to art is that it should be radically gentle. We are socialized in a way that we are not supposed to show a lot of emotions and are supposed to hold back emotionally, be logical. This separation of emotionality and logic is very white and was also created to portray non-white people as less rational – that's what I'm trying to break down. There's a lot of power and quite a lot of transformative potential in such radical emotionality and softness, and a potential to connect and organize collectively.”
Mino sees themself as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. What this means for them and their art and to what extent they need to label it is something Mino is still trying to figure out themself. Mino is attempting to break away from the binary understanding of gender - particularly in feminist (or Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism) spaces, where the focus is often on women and where non-binary people in particular are not adequately protected, not adequately named. “That's something I'm trying to break down very specifically and where I want to use my own queerness, my resources and privilege to help and make people visible who are being marginalized in other ways.”
Their work on social media is still met with resistance, especially on issues that contradict the heteronormative white norm. In their posts, Mino explores the issue of intersectionality from different perspectives: “Intersectionality is a certain way of looking at feminism. It isn’t a feminist stream, but a theory that says that it is not possible for you to look at identities completely separately, but that they always overlap. For example: I am a brown, a fat non-binary, a queer trans person. I have a whole lot of different identities. I'm also read as an Arab person. That means that when I experience discrimination, it's not just that I'm misgendered as a woman, but everything else plays a role as well.”
Mino's wish is for an intersectional queer community to emerge in Munich, where it is possible to start bigger art projects with the necessary financial resources. With their book, they want to give a first impulse in that direction. “I hope that something collective will emerge. For me, queerness also means moving away from the approach that nuclear families are the most important and towards a collective understanding of connection, of care, of looking after each other and being there for each other.”
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Mino creates art using words and combines this with intersectional feminist topics. They write poetry, political texts, and are currently working on a book. They write about whatever they are feeling and about what other people share with them about their feelings: “My approach to art is that it should be radically gentle. We are socialized in a way that we are not supposed to show a lot of emotions and are supposed to hold back emotionally, be logical. This separation of emotionality and logic is very white and was also created to portray non-white people as less rational – that's what I'm trying to break down. There's a lot of power and quite a lot of transformative potential in such radical emotionality and softness, and a potential to connect and organize collectively.”
Mino sees themself as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. What this means for them and their art and to what extent they need to label it is something Mino is still trying to figure out themself. Mino is attempting to break away from the binary understanding of gender - particularly in feminist (or Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism) spaces, where the focus is often on women and where non-binary people in particular are not adequately protected, not adequately named. “That's something I'm trying to break down very specifically and where I want to use my own queerness, my resources and privilege to help and make people visible who are being marginalized in other ways.”
Their work on social media is still met with resistance, especially on issues that contradict the heteronormative white norm. In their posts, Mino explores the issue of intersectionality from different perspectives: “Intersectionality is a certain way of looking at feminism. It isn’t a feminist stream, but a theory that says that it is not possible for you to look at identities completely separately, but that they always overlap. For example: I am a brown, a fat non-binary, a queer trans person. I have a whole lot of different identities. I'm also read as an Arab person. That means that when I experience discrimination, it's not just that I'm misgendered as a woman, but everything else plays a role as well.”
Mino's wish is for an intersectional queer community to emerge in Munich, where it is possible to start bigger art projects with the necessary financial resources. With their book, they want to give a first impulse in that direction. “I hope that something collective will emerge. For me, queerness also means moving away from the approach that nuclear families are the most important and towards a collective understanding of connection, of care, of looking after each other and being there for each other.”