It often seems like only dissidents have to define themselves, justify who we are, where we are and where we have been, justify what we think. The origin of the exhibition seems to respond to this unfair requirement. Visibility demands definition and both are a double-edged sword.  

However, in getting to know each other and sharing our stories and politics, we are also building a place to meet, a place from which to question and fight the system. Our opposition to the cisgender-heterosexual (cishet) norm is certainly one of the great challenges today to the patriarchy. As such, it is also a paradigm shift about which rivers of ink have been spilt. Between actions and reactions, proposals and counterproposals, advances and setbacks, in this selection of titles you will find our voices. And whilst they may not contain ‘the truth’ or ‘the solution’, they are testimony to something deeper: writing about a subject that inevitably affects us. 

StorIES, politicS, debateS. Dissidents are diverse, as evidenced by the documents shown here. We talk, debate and reach agreements. But we also still have countless questions. If the norm requires us to define ourselves, then we require it to let us learn from our contradictions.