Cancelt: Gertraud Klemm was excluded after public criticism from the “Pen! Smuseum” collection.
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For the upcoming autumn autumn, the Graz Leykam-Verlag promises a “liberation”, indeed a “revelation”, in short: “The sensation of the autumn of the book!” “The pen! Smuseum” is said to be an anthology with stories that are “bitterly, uncomfortable and incredibly funny”. When the publisher now showed the book cover on social media at the end of May, which among other things listed the authors, a shitstorm followed.
And the next day Leykam said on Instagram that every criticism was taken seriously and decided by that at the Viennese writer Gertraud Klemm to “draw clear consequences and not to publish the author”. This incredible illoyality of the publisher should not be dealt with here, but on the occasion of the outrage wave: an essay on the “identity -political ballet in the Feminism discourse”, which Klemm had published in Vienna’s “Standard” 2022.
“I’m now a flinta*,” she wrote in it. “Nobody asked me. But the F in the abbreviation stands for ›Woman‹ and means me; So I can’t complain. ”To explain: Flinta is an acronym. The F stands for heterogeneous cis women, l for lesbians and the other letters for people who are like intersex, like non -bob, t how trans. A for agenders mean people who do not feel belonging to a gender or reject the concept of gender.
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Initially, it should only be shown who is welcome at events and in certain rooms. Gertraud Klemm now criticizes that this neologism is more and more dominating the left -wing feminist discourses. Anyone who says “woman”, on the other hand, in order to verbalize the normal, unexplained gender law, are considered to be anti -trans -hostile and stick to binary. »No matter whether girl murder, sex crime or gender play gap: they are Flinta*s that suffer from it. When I have language aesthetic or ideological concerns and ask myself what happens when the woman category simply disappears – but not the man category – I am below. Then I get a new abbreviation: Fart or Terf. Discussion ended. ”And that is exactly what happened, albeit at three years late.
The transparency for the sake of: The author has also published an anthology with a text by Gertraud Klemm: “Three ways to the lake or another city” in Klagenfurter Drava-Verlag. Incidentally, there would be another word that is used in the left papers and discourses less and less: man. Free after Alfons Petzold (1882–1923), the Austrian workers’ poet: There are so many people in the world and so few people.