Inclusive Communities

Inclusive Communities is a project at the Queer Center.
These are the project’s goals:

• People learn:
  Being queer and being disabled is good and worthy of love.
  Participation is a shared responsibility.

• Disabled, mad, and chronically ill people are part of queer communities.
  Queer people are part of mad and crip communities.

• Disabled, mad, and chronically ill queers are in charge of how they’re represented,
  and people listen to them.

The project runs for two years.
Tristan Marie is working on the project for that time.
These are Tristan Marie’s responsibilities:
Empowering disabled, mad, and chronically ill queers
and fostering a sense of community.
Planning group meetings and events
for people who are queer and disabled
and their chosen families, friends, and professionals.
Removing barriers at the Queer Center.

Are you queer and disabled yourself?
Do you live or work with queer and disabled people?
And do you have ideas or requests for events?
Then send Tristan Marie an email at TristanMarie at QueeresZentrumKassel dot de
Or come to the Queer Center.
Tristan Marie is there almost every Wednesday from 1:00–3:00 PM.
Or give us a call.
Tristan Marie’s phone number is 0155 66 54 21 81.
You can reach them on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Aktion Mensch supports the Inclusive Communities project.

Upcoming Events

We’ll be hosting these events soon:

Past Events

These events have taken place so far:

2026

April

Disability Pride Protest Workshop
with the organizers of Disability Pride Kassel

Caring Community Potluck
for queer people with and without disabilities who are looking to build community.

March

Colorful Threads
Arts and crafts café for disabled, queer, and chronically ill people

February

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January

Colorful Threads
Arts and crafts café for disabled, queer, and chronically ill people

2025

December

Online Workshop: Adultism and Its Consequences for Queer Minors
with Heik Zimmermann
funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Online Workshop: Taking Action Against Classism—But How?
with Sannik Ben Dehler
funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Sewing Euphoria
As part of the workshops for self-determined gender expression
Funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Colorful Threads
Handicraft café for disabled, queer, and chronically ill people

November

Workshop: Anti-Muslim Racism
How racist and Islamophobic are queer communities, really?
with Marco Linguri
Funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Colorful Threads
Handicraft café for disabled, queer, and chronically ill people

October

This is how we want to live together.
Future Workshop for queer people
who are also disabled or mad
or neurodivergent or chronically ill.
Sponsored by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

(Re)thinking Allyship: Inherited Pasts and Complicit Presents?
An Intersectional Anti-Racism Workshop
Facilitated by: Nomaswazi Mthombeni
Funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Workshop: Ableism and Disability
Introduction, Reflection, and Empowerment
with Linn
Funded by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the Hessian Ministry of Labor, Integration, Youth, and Social Affairs

Colorful Threads
Handicraft Café for disabled, queer, and chronically ill people