And now queer! Opportunities and hurdles of a 'reading beyond the norm

As part of the Munich Queer Literature Festival, renowned book blogger and Bookstagrammer Marlon Brand invites you to a station reading at the Munich City Library! The event will explore the question of a "queer canon" - a question Marlon Brand examines in his newly published book Und jetzt queer! Isn’t a "canon," by definition, a set of rules that upholds old norms? And isn’t "queer" a term that seeks to break down these norms? So don’t these two concepts contradict each other - or is the canon always more queer than it might seem at first glance? Marlon Brand will guide the audience on a search for clues among the shelves of the Munich City Library, reading excerpts from Und jetzt queer as well as from several works of a potential "queer canon." The station reading will be framed by a discussion on the relationship between the canon and censorship: after all, processes of canonization are inextricably linked to questions of power and authority and are highly contested politically.