What makes a home? How do the people we speak with shape the stories we tell about ourselves? And which objects, places, memories, and relationships become props we use to understand our identities? 

This reading event brings together texts developed through the Collective Autobiographical Writing Workshop for BIPoC Queer Migrants, a series of three workshops held in Berlin. Through autobiographical writing, conversation, and collective reflection, participants explored questions about home, migration, queerness, identity, belonging, and memory. The respective workshops teed off with three different starting points: ‘A House Is Not a Home’, ‘A Conversation with 000’, and ‘Props on Identity’. On the basis of these prompts, personal stories emerged in different forms, voices, and languages—each shaped by the experiences and choices of the writers. 

At Haus der Kulturen der Welt, participants share selected pieces from this process in a format of their own choosing. The readings take different forms, reflecting the different ways each participant wants their text to be heard, performed, or encountered. 

Alongside live readings, printed copies of the collective publication created from the workshops are exhibited, bringing the individual contributions together in a shared physical form. 

Rather than presenting a single narrative of BIPoC queer migrant experience, the event holds space for multiple, sometimes overlapping and sometimes contradictory ways of remembering, belonging, and telling our own stories. 

Organized by Korea-Verband e. V. in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the heimaten Festival for Plural Democracy.