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URL:https://forummuenchen.org/veranstaltungen/bodie-ashton-the-parallel-li
 ves-of-liddy-bacroff-transgender-history-and-the-tyranny-of-the-archive/
SUMMARY:Bodie Ashton: The Parallel Lives of Liddy Bacroff. Transgender Hist
 ory and the Tyranny of the Archive
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nPursued by authorities throughout the 1930s\, Heinrich 
 Habitz left behind a significant paper trail of official documentation\, a
 rrest warrants\, and imprisonment records. As Germany slipped further unde
 r the National Socialist yoke\, Habitz’s status as a homosexual man who 
 sold sex marked him as a target of police repression\; even after the end 
 of the war\, the Hamburg Prosecutor’s Office attempted to locate and aga
 in prosecute him under the infamous §175 ‘sodomy law.’\n\nBy rights\,
  the study of Habitz provides insights into the continuities of anti-queer
  repression between authoritarianism and democracy\, but for one key point
 : ‘Heinrich Habitz’ existed only as a paper identity in official burea
 ucracy\, and the ‘man’ authorities repeatedly persecuted was\, in fact
 \, a self-identified woman named Liddy Bacroff. Through a series of semi-a
 utobiographical writings\, alongside official paperwork\, Liddy Bacroff pr
 esents the value of but also the difficulties facing the (re)construction 
 of queer and\, in particular\, transgender (pre)histories.\n\nIn this inst
 ance\, the historian is faced with the problem not just of how this life\,
  and others like it\, should be represented in historiographical terms. Ra
 ther\, we are left with the question of how this victim of National Social
 ist barbarity should (or rather\, can) be remembered: as the paper identit
 y that provided a succession of carceral authorities with the justificatio
 n to persecute and ultimately murder a cisgender gay man\, or as the lived
  experience of a woman whose unique understanding of herself allowed her t
 o carve out her place in a society that otherwise relegated her to its mar
 gins?\n\nThe event is a part of TransVision. \n\n\n\n\n\nStolperstein "Lid
 dy Bacroff"\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nEine Veranstaltung von Tra
 nsCulture\, Teil der AusstellungTransVision.\n
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