Am I dirty? The naming of a project

I will start my work in Berlin at the Magnus Hirschfeld Collection in the beginning of November. What this project will be, will become clear first after I have worked with the material for some time, probably even some months. I have been reading and thinking a bit about the project, of course, and it will PROBABLY be about early Queer persons that I discover in the historic material of the collection. So what the project will be called in the end — what the exhibition title will be — is naturally very open so far. But to start this project blog already now, I needed a temporary title. First I was thinking about the early Queer personalities, now forgotten. Not Hirschfeld himself, but more the people who needed his research. «Queer Pioneers»? «Forgotten Queer Identities»? Perhaps, if not quite. Then I thought about my own personal history, of growing up in a polite «Kleinbürgerlich» part of society, with it’s polite surpression of everything about the body, everything that was different, — and the growth into mature power and pride. A bit like the growth from the 1800s Victoriana into the chaotic modernity of the early 1900s.  <a href="https://medium.com/@skogrand/am-i-dirty-the-naming-of-a-project-43699f7ab50b">Click Here</a>