Gender*Language

'Release 04 - Care' POSTPONED, for now Due to insufficient funds & personal circumstances. — Ps. For those who missed the Open Call, we will most likely re-open it when we're ready again. — Comment if you've got the golden funding tip! — Follow along, because soon we will start a little recap series of our first three releases.

[Open Call CLOSED] Open Call for Artists, Designers, Creatives, Researchers and Writers! Gender*Language is a platform of queer perspectives on the intersection of gender and language. Currently, Gender*Language is working towards their next release 04 - Care, which will take place in 2026. To expand our network, we’re calling Artists, Designers, Creatives, Researchers, and Writers for future online publications in combination with offline (Amsterdam-based) events. At Gender*Language, we view ‘language’ quite broadly — the various means, media, and manners of communication and how this relates to our community. Queer ways of understanding, connecting, and positioning. Practical details: - Paid - Period from January - November 2026 - For both new and upcoming artists To apply, please fill out the form in our bio and send us your portfolio! Btw, you’re also welcome to send us recommendations, we greatly appreciate it! Deadline for submissions: 20 June 2025

Thank you all for a beautiful evening! With Ambiguous Relations’ at RADION, we look back at a fitting closing to our first year as an independent publishing platform and event organiser. Special shoutout to the participants from both the crowd and our contributors! Thank you to Eleni Maragkou (@elmaragkou ) Juno Dijkshoorn (@Junodijkshoorn ) Kuntenserven (@brotundrosen ) Fyn Paulina Bonita (@shinkusara ) Kaiden Ford (@Iamkaidenford ) MARICXS (@maricxs_artist @Studio10.04 ) R3LN4CHT (@relnacht ) Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Prins de Vos (@prinsdevos ) DIORA (@daniiidiora ) Photos by Prins de Vos (@prinsdevos ) Credits: Initiator & Curator: Jan Janssenswillen (@janjanssenswillen ) Editor & Co-curator: Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Hair & Makeup: Iraj Raghosing (@irajraghosing ) Styling Jan Janssenswillen: Zihaohaoli (@zihaohaoli ) Special thanks to RADION and their team (@radionamsterdam ) Supported by AFK (@afk020 )

Thank you all for a beautiful evening! With Ambiguous Relations’ at RADION, we look back at a fitting closing to our first year as an independent publishing platform and event organiser. Special shoutout to the participants from both the crowd and our contributors! Thank you to Eleni Maragkou (@elmaragkou ) Juno Dijkshoorn (@Junodijkshoorn ) Kuntenserven (@brotundrosen ) Fyn Paulina Bonita (@shinkusara ) Kaiden Ford (@Iamkaidenford ) MARICXS (@maricxs_artist @Studio10.04 ) R3LN4CHT (@relnacht ) Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Prins de Vos (@prinsdevos ) DIORA (@daniiidiora ) Photos by Prins de Vos (@prinsdevos ) Credits: Initiator & Curator: Jan Janssenswillen (@janjanssenswillen ) Editor & Co-curator: Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Hair & Makeup: Iraj Raghosing (@irajraghosing ) Styling Jan Janssenswillen: Zihaohaoli (@zihaohaoli ) Special thanks to RADION and their team (@radionamsterdam ) Supported by AFK (@afk020 )

FULL PROGRAM of 'Ambiguous Relations', upcoming Thursday 28 November, at @radionamsterdam . Doors open at 18:30 Entrance through RADION Cafe with Eleni Maragkou (@elmaragkou ) Juno Dijkshoorn (@Junodijkshoorn ) Kuntenserven (@brotundrosen ) Fyn Paulina Bonita (@shinkusara ) Kaiden Ford (@Iamkaidenford ) MARICXS (@maricxs_artist @Studio10.04 ) R3LN4CHT (@relnacht ) Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Prins de Vos (@prinsdevos ) DIORA (@daniiidiora ) Get your tickets & see you there!

Closing the night is DIORA (@daniiidiora ), a Cape Townian gem and multi-disciplinary artist, currently residing in Amsterdam. She blends techno, bass, trance, house, deconstructed club, gqom, vogue beats and vocals. She is not tied to one genre, creating enticing and elaborate stories through her sonics. She provides the party with her vibrant energy, charisma, and her considered curation of tracks. The doll doesn’t come to play. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

Audio-visual Installation 'Swallowed W/hole' by Joy Bomer (@artificial.joy ) Swallowed W/hole investigates materiality of affect. The audio-visual installation follows the premise that the unconscious is reflected within 1) cultural products and 2) the ways in which we engage with them. It seeks out connections between emotional states and aesthetic experiences. For this, it bases itself on visual associations from the media landscape made by the maker and various contribution participants. With this project, Joy is taking the first steps towards bridging the gap between her research practice and visual works. The emotional framework of Swallowed W/hole centres the psychoanalytic mechanism of ‘incorporation’ — a form of ‘psychic (in)digestion’ that can take hold during mourning, loss, and similar affective states. It represents an imperfect solution to trauma or disruptive psychological events. The symbolic idea — by definition full yet depleted, severed from its original anchor — is buried within the self. Once there, however, it resists symbolisation: the subject is not able to metabolise the event within the psyche. Phrased differently, incorporation constitutes an inability to know, think, verbalise, or in any other way transform the experience. It remains intact yet inaccessible, isolated within separated psychic regions. Here, this undigestible kernel creates wounds in the individual’s psychic web, destroying a sense of coherence and halting further progress. In their research on incorporation, analysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok refer to this as the formation of a ‘crypt’. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

In conversation with Eleni Maragkou (@elmaragkou ) On the topic of our 3rd Release - Code/Delete. Eleni Maragkou (she/they) is a Greek writer, editor, and researcher weaving an academic background in media studies into narratives about the technologies that shape our everyday lives. She also DJs sometimes — you know, typical multihyphenate stuff. In her work for Gender*Language, she explores the tension between visibility and opacity, laying the groundwork for a promiscuous theory of communal, queer life—both on and off the web. Meaning slips between words, boxes, and lines of code, challenging the reader to untangle the ways in which sexuality is disassembled and reassembled to fit normative structures to probe the limits of self-expression in a world that demands and punishes transparency. Design: Eleni Maragkou. Words: Eleni Maragkou, Fer Gonzáles Morales. Fonts: Fungal by Raphaël Bastide, Jérémy Landes and PicNic by Mariel Nils. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

Performance by R3LN4CHT (@relnacht ) R3LN4CHT creates rebellious playgrounds that mix durational performances, immersive installation art, video work, spicy DJ-sets and much more. Old and new artistic material is being tested, deconstructed or recycled; while maintaining a steady BPM. R3LN4CHT doesn’t only anticipate the unexpected, they celebrate it. R3LN4CHT is the brainchild and new artistic venture by performance artist Didi Kreike (@0909didi ). Their creative team functions as a modular system, a fluid team of artists collaborate on different projects. Merging the realms of theatre and nightlife, R3LN4CHT creates site-specific performances at their core. Their guerilla performances, in collaboration with students from The Factory by @stichting_likeminds , will happen at unexpected places and times. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

Performance ‘Weightlessness’ by Kaiden Ford (@Iamkaidenford ) Kaiden Ford is a storyteller who tries to communicate with the world in many different forms. They will be taking us deeper into the journey of their film Borboleta, which was 3 days of darkness condensed into a 20-minute film, which was captured using 12 different cameras by filmmaker Martin Perry. Kaiden shares with you what was going on in their mind. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

In conversation with kuntenserven (@brotundrosen ) On the topic of our 2nd Release - The Word. Kuntenserven (Moritz Friedhofen) is a clownxdrag persona taking the harp out of its traditional environment to explore new possibilities and sounds. As a Research Master Student in Critical Studies in Arts and Culture they focus on the intersections of Gender Studies with sound and visual arts. For Gender*Language, they combined their artistic and research skills and created a piece focused on the relations between (perceived) fixed sexual orientations, sexuality, and inhabiting a space that is a non-category. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam

Installation: My Kin Digital portraits of ancestors - a gaze into a possible future of honoring. Poetry Piece: Lost Translations A poetry performance bridging the gap between the here and coming. by Fyn Paulina Bonita (they/them) @shinkusara They are a Queer, Surinamese-Dutch performance artist, writer, and educator. Their multidisciplinary work weaves together language, somatics, technology, and ancestry through a focus on embodiment and storytelling. As a researcher and community weaver, Fyn develops learning practices that challenge and elevate community knowledge and learning, searching for a bridge between what has been and what could be. In addition to their creative practice, Fyn has published work on multiple platforms, including Afghan Punk Magazine, Unwanted Words Rotterdam, NPO Cultuur, and Gender Language, contributing poetry, essays, and email art pieces. They have facilitated workshops on gender, decolonization, and somatic learning, and have performed at renowned festivals such as Holland Festival and Tell’em Poetry Festival. Fyn’s performances often merge physical movement with narrative to create experiences that invite participants to witness identity, memory, and healing. Gender*Language: Ambiguous Relations 28 November 19:00 - 23:00 @radionamsterdam