{"id":155505,"date":"2025-11-07T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=155505"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:57:52","slug":"afro-queer-hallucinations","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/literature\/afro-queer-hallucinations-155505\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Queer Hallucinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block-copy\" >\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row \">\n            <div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8\">\n                <div class=\"box\">\n                    <div class=\"copy\"><p>In this poetic treatise on truth, community and creative technologies, Logan February uses the metaphor of &#8220;hallucination&#8221; in language-based models of artificial intelligence to question power relations and resist queer exile. After the facts of colonization and criminalisation, is it a lie or a timely imagination to reclaim a space beyond gender binaries within the\u00a0<span class=\"w-term-highlight\">Yoruba<\/span>\u00a0language? The lecture examines the risky power of myth-making in our recognition of ourselves and each other in history and mother-tongue; the ways in which we co-create the cultural reality and future of queer African belonging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-accordion\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<block-accordion inline-template>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<block-accordion-item inline-template item-headline=\"Logan February\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div ref=\"item\" data-id=\"LoganFebruary\" class=\"block-accordion-item vue-initialize\" aria-expanded=\"false\" :aria-expanded=\"active ? 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Their short film,\u00a0<em>Thrall<\/em>, was an official selection at the 2025 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. February received the Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature and recent fellowships from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Literaturhaus Wien,\u00a0and Akademie der K\u00fcnste, among others. Presently a poet-in-residence at the Humboldt Forum, Logan February lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-9 col-md-9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/block-accordion-item>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/block-accordion>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-logos\" >\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row  middle-xs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-4 col-sm-3 col-sm-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box margin-sixth-top\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Senatsverwaltung f\u00fcr Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SHF_eb00245185.png\" style=\"display: inline-block; 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